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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.

Summer Foundation are co-designing a housing roadmap with NDIS participants including those with complex communication needs. The project will co-design online tools and resources for participants to: navigate their housing journey foster awareness of diverse options build confidence to identify and work towards their home and living goals. Project participants will have access to a peer support service to assist them understand their individual home and living options and goals.

Self Advocacy Sydney are co-designing a housing roadmap with NDIS participants with intellectual disability using a peer support model. Peer Support Mentors will be employed to help participants understand their home and living support options. The project will use easy-to-understand accessible audio-visual resources to: build individual capacity guide participants to understand available options make informed home and living decisions The co-created resources will utilise online platforms such as YouTube to broadcast home and living options to a wider audience.

There are 2 upcoming planned outages over the weekend. Planned outages allow us to update and improve our systems.