NDIS Townsville

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People living in Townsville who have a significant and permanent disability can now take the opportunity to become participants of the NDIS or National Disability Insurance Scheme to receive support to help alleviate the everyday challenges that their disabilities bring. The NDIS is ready to give funding to its participants living in Townsville that will go to much-needed services and support. This will allow the NDIS participants to live life as normally as possible, reach their goals, and eventually learn necessary skills that will give them independence.

What is the NDIS?

The NDIS or the National Disability Insurance Scheme is a scheme put forth by the Australian Government starting in the year 2014 and is expected to roll out throughout all the states and territories of Australia by 2020. The NDIS was established to give Australian citizens the necessary support and services that they need to deal with the challenges that their significant and permanent disabilities cause.

Through the NDIS, its Townsville participants can get funding for support, resources, and services they need to live life as normally as possible with their disabilities by going through a process that allows them to pick and choose the support and services they need to be funded. All NDIS participants can customise their treatment plans, also known as NDIS plan to best fit their situation in life, meet their specific needs, and help them achieve their personal goals.

The NDIS is administered by the National Disability Insurance Agency, which helps NDIS participants carefully select and choose the services and support they need with the help of an NDIS Support Worker.

The NDIS has carefully curated NDIS-qualified Townsville providers for their participants to get their support, services, and resources from. These providers can be organisations, groups of people, or individuals who are credited by the NDIS into providing much-needed quality support, services, and resources to NDIS participants and are deemed competent to navigate the NDIS processes for their clients.

One of the main goals of the NDIS by providing support to their participants is to allow them to learn skills and gain independence for them to live life as normally as possible. The NDIS is heavily focused on improving the overall well-being of people with intellectual, physical, sensory, cognitive, and psychosocial disabilities to help them integrate into their communities, increase participation, and join the workforce.

Another one of the NDIS priorities is to give early intervention support to its participants who need it, including both adults and children. The initiative to give early intervention support is to reduce the negative impacts that the participant’s disabilities can cause in the future and to especially combat developmental delays in children.

The NDIS allows its participants to customise their NDIS plans to best suit their unique situations, meet their specific needs, and help them achieve their personal goals. The NDIS and its many providers understand that with a diverse set of participants with disabilities, an one size fits all treatment is not a solution and thus they tailor their treatment plans in collaboration with NDIS participants and their carers.

NDIS for People in Townsville

Residents of Townsville with a permanent and significant disability can now get the opportunity to apply to become NDIS participants and get necessary and reasonable support for their much-needed services and resources to get help for the challenges they face because of their disabilities.

The funding that NDIS participants in Townsville for the support and service they need to help with their disabilities will allow them to meet their daily needs, get help in reaching their goals, gain independence over time, and ultimately live life as normally as possible.

Persons with disabilities in Townsville applying for NDIS can get the opportunity to customise their plans to tailor the budget they can receive and allocate them to specific services and support they need for their disabilities and situation in life.

Townsville residents with disabilities can easily apply to become an NDIS participant at the local NDIA office or by simply calling 1800 800 110 and asking for an Access Request to start their journey into becoming an NDIS participant.


How to Know if You’re Eligible for the NDIS

To become an NDIS participant, applicants must check if their eligibility get support from the NDIS.

The following requirements below are set forth by the NDIS, and one can apply for this scheme if they are:

  • Between the ages of 7 and 65; and

  • Living 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

  • Using 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 participant.

Would-be applicants need only visit the local NDIA office at Townsville and ask for an Access Request, or call 1800 800 110, or fill up the only copy of an Access Request form and email it to NAT@ndis.gov.au.

Different NDIS Townsville Support Budgets

Once applicants successfully become an NDIS Townsville participant, they can make their first step into developing their customised NDIS plan by themselves or with the help of a guardian or an NDIS Support Worker.

There are three types of support budget that the NDIS can fund for an NDIS participant’s NDIS plan which the participant can choose depending on the needs brought on by their disabilities and their goals in life.

These three support budgets are:

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Core Supports Budget

The Core Supports Budget is meant to be allocated for the NDIS participant’s daily needs to alleviate the challenges that their disabilities bring and help them work towards the goals they set. This is the most flexible support budget as the NDIS participant can use their funding to switch across the different four support categories in the Core Supports budget. These different categories are:

  1. Assistance with Daily Life;

  2. Consumables;

  3. Assistance with Community and Social Participation; and

  4. Transportation.

Capacity Building Supports Budget

The Capacity Building Supports Budget is focused more on the NDIS participant gaining independence in their daily life and helping them reach their long-term goals. However, unlike Core Supports Budget, the Capacity Building Supports budgets is not flexible and requires the NDIS participant to only allocate funding for approved individual support that falls in their chosen support category. These Capacity Building categories are:

  1. Support Coordination;

  2. Improved Living Arrangements;

  3. Increased Social and Community Participation;

  4. Finding and Keeping a Job;

  5. Improved Relationships;

  6. Improved Health and Wellbeing;

  7. Improved Learning;

  8. Improved Life Choices; and

  9. Improved Daily Living.

Capital Supports Budget

The Capital Supports Budget is meant to allocate to higher-cost pieces that the NDIS participants need to function in their daily lives. These can be assistive technology like medical equipment, or home or vehicle modifications. This support budget is the least flexible of the three as funding can only be spent on:

  1. Assistive Technology; and

  2. Home Modification.

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