It has been 14 months since the last post! A lot has happened in that time. Mitchell has been safe and generally well. His family have had their ups and downs – more on that in a later post. This post is really just a pointer to a recent article […]
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In an earlier post↗ we spoke of finding the right people to support Mitchell, and that once onboard, teaching them what they needed to know. But what do they need to know?! A lot of the key information Mitchell’s support team needs comes from a document put together by Mitchell’s […]
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Mitchell’s second NDIS Plan – in the second half of 2019 – was a short one, just six months. The NDIA wanted us to focus on compiling the evidence they wanted to ‘confirm’ Mitchell’s needs. We worked with: an occupational therapist to put together a “Functional Capacity and Needs Assessment” […]
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Even before we walked into Mitchell’s first NDIS planning meeting in the second quarter of 2018, we knew it was time to start working towards Mitchell living independently of us – for our long-term wellbeing, and Mitchell’s. We made sure Mitchell’s first NDIS plan↗ included a longer term goal to […]
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Early in our self-direction journey, it was relatively easy to manage Mitchell’s support team – we call them Mitchell’s crew! Confirming when one or two people were doing shifts was fairly straight forward with phone calls and messages, and emails. As the team grew, the task became more complicated. We […]
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