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We Care NSW is working with a small number of participants with an identified goal of transitioning from supported independent living to more independent living arrangements within the community through intentional capacity-building programs inside and outside of the home environment. We Care NSW are doing this by creating individual care teams for participants who will help them in implementing evidence-informed, co-designed intensive skill building plans tailored to the participant’s individual needs and circumstances. These plans are implemented as a part of the participant’s everyday life which allows capacity to be built naturally within the home and community over time.

Supporting Independent Living Cooperative (SILC) seek to demonstrate how SILC work with families and people with disability to co-design home and living solutions to best meet the person's needs. SILC does this through the set-up of family governed cooperatives, which are operated by families of people with disability. SILC’s model recognises that people with disability with their families, are in the best position to make decisions about where they live, who they live with, and who supports them. The project will observe how SILC co-design the home and living solution to best meet the person's needs, and as a result, optimising outcomes in the person's social, community and living environments.

Rocky Bay is working in partnership with Latrobe University to implement an Active Support and Frontline Practice Leadership Model. The Active Support and Frontline Practice Leadership Model, featured in the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission’s recent Own Motion: Inquiry into aspects of supported accommodation (January 2023), seeks to empower participants to decide how they live and the level of support they receive. Staff will receive training on empowering participants to exercise their ‘choice and control’ to become more independent within the home environment. They will provide ‘just the right amount’ of support and guidance, enabling participants to complete tasks autonomously in a safe and supported environment.

VALID will co-design a housing roadmap with NDIS participants and adults with intellectual disability. The housing roadmap and supporting tools and resources will be delivered to participants through workshops. The workshops aim to: provide and share information foster confidence promote discussion and questions increase awareness of home and living support options. Each workshop participant will develop a “My Housing Plan” which will reflect their individual home and living support needs and goals.

University of Melbourne will co-design their housing roadmap with NDIS participants with multiple and complex support needs, in partnership with Deafblind Australia, and CHARGE Syndrome Australasia. University of Melbourne will use the Individualised Supported Living (ISL) Framework to develop, test, and deliver an online education support package using co-design principles inclusive of people with disability and their families. The online educational package aims to support families with adult children to: increase knowledge and navigate the tools provided to review and discuss current and future living arrangements identify suitable living arrangements navigate practical steps in establishing and maintaining a suitable home...

This is a summary of the Participant Reference Group’s (PRG) recent meeting. The PRG consists of 22 participant and carer representatives across Australia. The PRG is a key platform to ensure the participant voice is heard and understood by the NDIA.