NDIS Brisbane

People with a significant and permanent disability living in Brisbane can get the opportunity to get support from the NDIS or the National Disability Insurance Scheme to help with the challenges that their disabilities bring. The NDIS in Brisbane has set out to bring funding for the support and services that people with disabilities need in their daily lives and to help them reach their goals.

What is the NDIS?

The NDIS or National Disability Insurance Scheme is a scheme developed by the Australian Government to give support to Australians with disabilities into helping them living life as normally as possible through necessary services and support. The NDIS is set out to roll out throughout the entire country by 2020 with its participants having individualised treatment plans called NDIS plans to help alleviate the everyday challenges of their disabilities.

This scheme is administered by the National Disability Insurance Agency or the NDIA with the understanding that every individual with a disability has unique struggles, needs, and goals in life, thus they provide their participants the opportunity to develop their treatment plans or NDIS plan to specifically select the services and support they need with great consideration of their goals.

One of the main goals of the NDIS is to give support to people with disabilities to help them live life as normally as possible and gain independence throughout as they receive the support and services that they require. This scheme has a long-term goal to help its participants eventually live life as normally as possible with their disabilities, integrate and participate in their communities, and join the workforce.

The NDIS is focused to fund support and services to its participants, especially people experiencing everyday challenges from their intellectual, physical, sensory, cognitive, and psychosocial disabilities. These disabilities need to be both permanent and significant for the NDIS to give support to the participants.

The NDIS can connect their participants with the necessary services and support they can find in their communities such as doctors, sports clubs, schools, and support groups, all of which are carefully curated and credited by the NDIS to ensure quality service and support.

The NDIS is also heavily focused on providing their participants with early intervention support to help reduce the negative impacts of their disability at its early stages and to prevent developmental delays. This early intervention support is readily given to both children and adult NDIS participants to give them a running start in building their skills and independence despite the challenges that their disabilities.

NDIS for People in Brisbane

The NDIS has been rolling throughout Australia since 2014 and is now available to provide support to people with disabilities living in Brisbane. Citizens of Brisbane with a significant and permanent disability can apply at their local NDIA office to become a participant of the NDIS to get funding for the necessary and reasonable support and services that their disability requires.

This will help meet their daily needs, alleviate the challenges that their disabilities bring, get closer to their goals, and eventually live life as normally as possible.

According to the most recent data, there are over 68,500 people with disabilities in Queensland benefiting from the support provided by the NDIS including over 28,000 people reporting that its the first time they have received support for their disabilities. The most recent data also shows that over 1,200 children are receiving initial support for their disabilities in the Early Childhood Early Intervention programme or simply ECEI for early intervention support for their disabilities.

There are many more people with disabilities living in Brisbane who are not getting support to help with the challenges that their disabilities bring. Applying to become a participant of the NDIS is a great way to get funding for the support and services that people with disabilities require for their individual needs and personal goals.

Different NDIS Brisbane Support Budgets

There are different NDIS Brisbane support budgets that NDIS participants can avail of depending on their individual needs and personal goals. Each support budget is specifically developed to address the challenges that the NDIS participants face because of their disability and highly considered their individual needs and personal goals. With the help of different NDIS workers, the NDIS participants can select the best support budget to fund the support and services that they require.

There are three types of support budgets that NDIS participants can choose from and these are:

Core Support Budget

The core support budge is meant to help with the NDIS participant’s everyday disability-related, needs, activities, and working to reach their goals. This is considered to be the most flexible support budget out of the three, which means that NDIS participants can pick and choose across the four following support categories that they need that’s listed below:

Assistance with Daily Life
Consumables
Assistance with Community and Social Participation
Transport

Capacity Building Support Budget

The Capacity Building Support Budget is meant for NDIS participants who wish to build their independence and get help to reach their long term goals. However, unlike the Core Support Budget, NDIS participant can only allocate the funds they receive into one category of this support budget for their needs which are listed below:

Support Coordination
Improved Living Arrangements
Increased Social and Community Participation
Finding and Keeping a Job
Improved Relationships
Improved Health and Wellbeing
Improved Learning
Improved Life Choices
Improved Daily Living

Capital Support Budget

The Capital Support Budget is for NDIS participants needing higher-cost pieces of assistive technology to alleviate the challenges that their disabilities bring. This can include home or vehicle modifications and equipment which are labelled into two categories below:

Assistive Technology
Home Modification

How to Know If You’re Eligible for NDIS

The NDIS has developed an eligibility checklist for applicants wanting to become a participant in the NDIS. First and foremost, applicants need to have a permanent and significant disability that brings challenges to their everyday life to become eligible to become a participant.

Here are the requirements needed to be satisfied in order to be qualifed as a NDIS participant:

Be between the ages of 7 and 65; and
Live in Australia (Applicable to Citizens, Permanent Visa holders and/or Protected Special Category Visa holders); and
Have a permanent or significant disability that requires another person’s support; or
Use special equipment because of a permanent or significant disability; or
In need of support to reduce future needs.

Applicants who identify with the first two statements and one of the last three statements are eligible to become an NDIS Brisbane participant.

To apply for the NDIS, the applicant needs only to contact the NDIS and fill out an Access Request form at 1800 800 110 or visit Brisbane's local NDIA office. They can also fill out an online copy of the Access Request form and email it to NAT@ndis.gov.au to get start their process into becoming an NDIS participant and get support to help with their disabilities.