With my son’s NDIS plan, I essentially took three steps to maximising it’s value.

1. The first was to express a vision of where his life should be in a future.  I did this under a set of headings that were relevant to my son.
   
   • Community involvement
   • Learning
   • Staying active
   • How and where he lives
   • Who safeguards his life
2. With this vision firmly in mind, I then expressed a set of goals that were reflected in his NDIS Plan.  Some of these goals were short term, some were longer term. I made sure these goals covered both what was important for my son, and what was important to my son.  Understanding the important for/to distinction↗ was essential to making the NDIS Plan truly valuable to my son.
3. The third step involved setting out achievable sub-goals that lead to realising my son’s goals (and vision!).  This included:
   • Working through the categories of funding in my son’s NDIS plan to prioritise the supports needed and actions to be taken.
   • Building a financial budget tracking tool that enabled me to maintain a focus on the use of the available funds to achieve my son’s goals.