Intensive Family Support
The Intensive Family Support Funding provides a wide range of flexible supports to families/carers who provide support to a member with a disability. The primary aim of the Intensive Family Support is to build and enhance family well-being and strengthen family, carer, and community relationships.
As a result of these flexible measures, individuals and their families/carers are enabled to achieve the following outcomes:
Existing and new relationships, community connections and support networks are supported, developed and enhanced.
Individual and family/carer capacity are strengthened to promote and maintain a positive home environment.
independence of a person with a disability is facilitated, maintained and enhanced.
Individuals, families and/or carers engage in community activities that are appropriate for the life course of the person with a disability, reflecting their cultural identity.
Access to and inclusion in the community is increased.
Alternatives To Employment
Alternatives to Employment services seek to ensure that people with disabilities with high support needs, who require an alternative to paid employment, have access to a range of opportunities to develop skills and participate within their community.
There are two pathways to access Alternatives to Employment Program Funding:
If you are in your last year of school or have left school within the previous two years you can apply through the Post School Options Program.
If you are an adult or left school more that two years ago you may be eligible for assistance through the Alternatives to Employment (adults).
Accommodation Support
The focus of Accommodation Support Funding is to:
1. Support people with a disability to live in a home environment as
close as possible to that enjoyed by other community members; and
2. Enable the person with a disability and their family to have a choice
of support providers.
The Accommodation Support Program provides funding (as outlined below) when a person with a disability lives in accommodation situations such as:
1. Shared care or individual arrangements that aim to enable people
with a disability to live in the community in a home environment as
close as possible to that enjoyed by other community members;
2. Individualised accommodation options where the person lives in their family home
and support costs are more than the designated benchmark per annum ($30,000);
3. Foster care options where the child spends 50% or more time away from their family
of origin
