HOW TO WRITE A HOUSING PLAN Penny Paul, Senior Policy & Research Officer
Who’s in the room? Ma May I have a show of hands: Support coordinators Allied health professionals People who have worked in disability prior to the NDIS People working with people in RAC, or at risk of admission People working with people in hospital People who have written a housing plan People who are about to write a housing plan People who have experience of a person using NDIS funding to make a mainstream housing option work Please call out a question that you’ve come here with 2
TODAY’S SESSION 1. Environmental scan 2. Summer Foundation NDIS housing resources 3. Morning tea 4. Writing a housing plan using the SF Housing Plan Tool 5. Example of an OT report recommending SDA 6. Example of a successful SDA Housing Plan 7. What next 8. Specialist disability accommodation (SDA) 9. Appealing decisions 10. Reflections / feedback 3
About Summer Foundation
Responses from young people who have exited aged care to the Ministers announcement 7
NDIS’ Approach to Housing 10
NDIS funded supports to assist people meet their housing goals Capacity building supports • Assistance with daily living supports • Developing and/or sustaining the participant’s informal support • network Home modifications • Assistive technology • SDA • 11
The NDIS Housing Pathway https://www.summerfoundation.org.au/ndis-housing-resources/
Testing eligibility for SDA
Environmental scan • SDA is a new world • SDA Rules 2016 • Decision making • Implications • The importance of mainstream or ordinary housing • Shared supported accommodation • Managing expectations 14
Summer Foundation NDIS housing resources • https://www.summerfoundation.org.au/ndis-housing-resources/ 16
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Housing goal Participants need a relevant housing goal, for e.g. I am 37 years old and it is my dream to • finally live on my own. As a 24 year old, it FOR NDIS PARTICIPANTS OCTOBER 2017 ABOUT THIS TOOL is time I got to do what everyone else This tool helps you think about where you want to live, who you would like to does, and move away from my family. live with and the type of housing that you would like to live in. You can use this tool to tell your housing story and work out your housing goals. This tool provides links to digital stories that show people with complex needs living in different types of housing. Watching these may help you to I want to move out of here and be part of think about what housing options might suit you. • If your NDIS Plan includes capacity building funding to explore your housing the community. They are all old and deaf options, the information you put in here will help when you talk to your Support Coordinator about your housing goals and preferences. here. I haven’t got anyone to talk to. This is not a housing application form, but the information you put in here will assist you to look for suitable housing. You can cut and paste the information from this tool into housing application forms. To live more independently in my own • home so I can feel safe, and have the space to do my art, and have friends to www.summerfoundation.org.au visit 18
NDIS funded supports to assist people meet their housing goals 19
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Mainstream housing 24
If a participant's disability prevents them from accessing mainstream housing, they should test their eligibility for SDA 25
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Who was the NDIA thinking about when they wrote the SDA Rules? 28, 28,000 000 pe peopl ople 16,000 6,200 5,800 Existing Supported Residential Unmet Accommodation Aged Care Demand 27
SDA eligibility - and require an SDA response 28
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Housing Plan Tool Template for submitting your NDIS housing plan: Matches up your evidence • with the Reasonable and Necessary assessment Covers all the information • NDIS requires 31
Recent changes to SDA The Framework now clearly states that it is ‘intended • to provide long-term certainty for participants, providers and infrastructure investors about the Greater enduring nature of specialist disability accommodation under the NDIS certainty The SDA Framework now confirms the ongoing • about SDA nature of SDA funding in a participant’s plan: ‘it is not envisaged that a participant, once found eligible for SDA, would lose that eligibility 32
Recent changes to SDA The SDA Framework now includes an additional • statement that establishes the ‘centrality of a participant’s choice and independence and right to More choice exercise control over their life’ and control SDA funding to be provided in an eligible • for participant’s plan, even if a dwelling is not available participants Remove barriers and disincentives for families to live • together in SDA 33
Recent changes to SDA Participants will not need to prove they have • exhausted all housing options Dedicated NDIA planning team, fast-tracking of SDA • Participant assessment decisions and priority for those in aged planning care or hospital More NDIA guidance to help people in the SDA • processes planning process 34
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Feedback on SDA Housing Plans • Use a strengths based approach • Show how SDA will facilitate the persons access to the community and build their capacity • Provide evidence of value for money • The person’s preferences in their own words is powerful • Any feature that links to a cost need evidence re R & N, an for e.g. a two bedroom single occupant apartment. 37
Feedback on SDA Housing Plans • Put the persons housing goal at the beginning • Include a table of contents • Take out all Summer Foundation formatting and headings • Link evidence to the SDA Rules and NDIS R & N criteria 38
Morning tea please be back in the room by 10.50 39
Working through the housing plan tool We now have some feedback on housing plans that have been submitted. Today I’m going to work through a housing plan that secured SDA for Cheryl Smith. 40
SDA in an NDIS Plan 41
www.thehousinghub.org.au 42
New build Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) 43
Seeking review of an NDIA decision cid:94AD2DF4-32F3-48FA-B228- FE1845B13362@spirit.net.aucid:94AD2DF4- 32F3cid:94AD2DF4-32F3-48FA-B228- FE1845B13362@spirit.net.au-48FA-B228- FE1845B13362@spirit.net.au Disability Advocacy Finder https://disabilityadvocacyfinder.dss.gov.au/disability/ndap/ 44
What next • Be persistent • Network • Sign up to the UpSkill mailing list, https://www.summerfoundation.org.au/get-involved/support- coordinators-mailing-list/ • Other communities of Practice 45
Questions / reflection / feedback 46
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SDA & In-kind In-kind up sides • “No participant is required to live in an in-kind SDA property if Consider individual they do not wish to” – David Bowen preference • “Victoria has an agreement with Wide range of basis for the NDIA to ensure that this requesting non-in-kind does not impact on choice and control of accommodation. No 10 business day cap for participant who would prefer a States to advise on non-government place will be required to accept or stay in a availability government place if there is a suitable place available in the Commonwealth position – no non-government sector” – in-kind post 1 July 2019 Jenny Mikakos 50
NDIS’ Approach to Housing 51
NDIS’ Approach to Housing 127,000 300,000 ? 28,000 200,000 57,000 88,000 100,000 0 Private means Existing Affordable NDIS Unmet need Housing (SDA) 52
Building the capacity of support coordinators The UpSkill program aims to provide young people with disability a higher quality support coordination workforce that will help them avoid aged care. UpSkill will focus on these key areas: Hospital discharge and rehabilitation to help people return to the community • NDIS housing pathways and developing collaborative housing plans • Building the capacity of young people in aged care to get back to the community • Support coordinators play a critical role in assisting people with complex disability support needs • achieve positive outcomes under the NDIS. To learn about face-to-face professional development opportunities coming up in Victoria, NSW and • Queensland and how to access our online resources, sign up to our support coordinators mailing list at: summerfoundation.org.au/upskill UpSkill is an initiative of the Summer Foundation.
Responses from young people who have exited aged care to the Ministers announcement https://twitter.com/PaulFletcherMP/status/110893667032 0054272 https://twitter.com/SHendersonMP/status/110898296611 6442114 57
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