1. NDIS Understanding Workshops Workshop 3
NDIS Planning and standing strong
NDIS workshops brought to you by 1

2. PART 1
Introduction 2

3. Workshop accessibility
Please feel free to provide us feedback on our accessibility - in person, or via:
Phone: (toll free) or (03)
Post: Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO)
Level 2, 247 – 251 Flinders Lane
Melbourne, VIC 3000 3

4. About me Tricia Malowney Consultant
Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) 4

5. Workshop protocols and style
Please put your phone on silent, or turn it off
There are no silly questions
Share as much or little as is comfortable
Do you have a nametag and Attendee Handbook? 5

6. Train the Trainer
This workshop will prepare you to present information effectively, respond to participant questions and run activities.
The Direct Training workshops you will run are intended for people with disability as well as families. 6

7. Workshop outline Part 1 40 minutes Introduction Part 2 20 minutes
NDIS Planning in detail
Part 3 15 minutes
Standing Strong During the Planning Process
Break 30 minutes
Part 4 1 hour, 15 minutes
- continued 7

8. Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO)
AFDO is a peak body
AFDO represents the interests of people with a disability
Members are run and operated by people with a disability and their families
AFDO educates the public about the issues faced by people with a disability on a day to day basis 8

9. Disability Loop is a group of resources about the NDIS.
Disability Loop’s information is up-to-date, easy to find and easy to use. We always use plain language, to help you make sense of it all
To stay in the loop you can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
Talk about SDF project … 9

10. Find additional information:
Fact sheet
All about AFDO and Disability Loop 10

11. National Disability Insurance Scheme Why was the NDIS needed?
Support is hard to get or not available at all
What support is available changes depending on where you live
Very little or no choice 11

12. National Disability Insurance Scheme Chronic disempowerment12

13. National Disability Insurance Scheme
What problems does the NDIS solve?
Unfair
Fragmented
Underfunded 13

14. National Disability Insurance Scheme Why is the NDIS very different?
Fixing the unfairness
Repairing the underfunding
Correcting the fragmentation 14

15. Find additional information:
Fact sheet
What is the NDIS? 15

16. NDIS Planning in detail
PART 2
NDIS Planning in detail 16

17. NDIS Planning process – stage by stage17

18. Find additional information:
Workshop
How does the NDIS work?
This was cut – may put back in later:
Webinar
NDIS Access process
Participant Handbook
NDIS Planning and standing strong 18

19. 2. Planning Conversation
Becoming an NDIS Participant
The three stages of NDIS Planning
1. Getting Plan Ready
2. Planning Conversation
3. Your NDIS Plan 19

20. Planning stage 1: Getting Plan Ready
Getting Plan Ready for an NDIS First Plan
The NDIS First Plan meeting
Getting Plan Ready for next
and future NDIS Plans 20

21. The Participant Statement Planning stage 1: Getting Plan Ready
Double check image is correct 21

22. The Participant Statement Planning stage 1: Getting Plan Ready
Double check image is correct 22

23. Getting Plan Ready and Plan Management
Planning stage 1: Getting Plan Ready
Think about how you want to do the Plan Management duties during the Getting Plan Ready process 23

24. Planning stage 2: The Planning Conversation
What is the Planning Conversation? 24

25. Planning stage 2: The Planning Conversation
The Planning Conversation (NDIS First Plan) 25

26. Planning stage 2: The Planning Conversation
The Planning Conversation (for next and future NDIS Plans) 26

27. Planning Stage 3: NDIS Plans (Individualised Funding Packages)
What are NDIS Plans? 27

28. Standing strong during the NDIS Planning process
PART 3
Standing strong during the NDIS Planning process 28

29. Chronic disempowerment can affect planning
Why standing strong?
Chronic disempowerment can affect planning 29

30. What does standing strong mean?
Why standing strong?
What does standing strong mean? 30

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32. Question time:
What does standing strong in relation to NDIS Planning mean to me?
Get them from the direct training handbook 32

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34. What does standing strong in relation to NDIS Planning mean to me?
Not being pushed around, taking charge
Setting my own goals, making my own decisions
Working out what supports I need to help me speak for myself
Knowing how to be empowered to have your needs met by the NDIS, instead of you trying to meet the needs of the NDIS
Feeling confident
Understanding that planners and service providers may have other interests, agendas and targets 34

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36. Standing strong during the NDIS Planning process - continued
PART 4
Standing strong during the NDIS Planning process - continued 36

37. The building blocks of standing strong
The importance of quality information 37

38. The building blocks of standing strong
The value of independent information 38

39. The building blocks of standing strong
The value of accessible information 39

40. The building blocks of standing strong Dignity of risk40

41. The building blocks of standing strong
Understanding conflict of interest
Alt text when image is final
Mickey mouse easter bunny etc flat 41

42. Find additional information:
Example
Conflict of interest 42

43. Black 43

44. The building blocks of standing strong
Potential conflict of interest issues with service providers
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Ask carl for opinion on building for sps 44

45. The building blocks of standing strong
Potential conflict of interest issues within families
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46. Question time:
What happens when your goals are different from the goals of your parents?
What happens if a service provider strongly encourages a person with disability to include their services in an NDIS Plan, which makes them feel pressured to accept the services offered? 46

47. Black 47

48. Can you think of specific conflict of interest or dignity of risk issues that might come up in the NDIS Planning process?
Service providers who help with planning may have conflict of interest
Service providers and families could make assumptions about capacity
Families might try to keep the person too safe, avoiding dignity of risk
Service providers helping with planning could encourage you to buy services from them instead of trying new things
Families may disagree and discourage you getting things you want for yourself
Worried you’ll make ‘bad’ decisions 48

49. Standing strong:
Getting Plan Ready
Should we say ‘ordinary’ life? 49

50. Standing strong: Getting Plan Ready
Gathering evidence for the NDIS First Plan meeting 50

51. Standing strong: Getting Plan Ready
List all your supports 51

52. Standing strong: Getting Plan Ready
Measure all your supports 52

53. Plan Management options: what skills do I need?
Standing strong:
Getting Plan Ready
Plan Management options:
what skills do I need? 53

54. Find additional information:
NDIS Understanding workshop 5
Plan Management explained 54

55. Thinking about a good life for next NDIS Plans
Standing strong:
Getting Plan Ready
Thinking about a good life for next NDIS Plans
Add an extra person 55

56. What skills and experiences are needed to reach my goals?
Standing strong:
Getting Plan Ready
What skills and experiences
are needed to reach
my goals? 56

57. Standing strong: the Planning Conversation
Can you and should you bring somebody to meetings like the Planning Conversation?
CM’s notes say “fair/unfair”?
I cant remember what that means - JC 57

58. Black 58

59. Question time:
Can you think of some pros and cons for the five planning support options?
Group 1 – Families/parents
Group 2 – Advocates
Group 3 – Friends
Group 4 – By yourself
Group 5 – Support workers 59

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61. See the pages at the end of your Attendee Handbook
Can you think of some pros and cons for the five planning support options?
See the pages at the end of your Attendee Handbook 61

62. Standing strong: The Planning Conversation
No right answer 62

63. Standing strong: The Planning Conversation
Meeting with the NDIS representative
CM’s notes say “fair/unfair”?
I cant remember what that means - JC 63

64. Find additional information:
Fact sheet
The growth of the NDIS 64

65. Standing strong: The Planning Conversation
Understanding what reasonable and necessary means 65

66. Find additional information:
NDIS Understanding workshop 2
Reasonable and necessary 66

67. Standing strong: The Planning Conversation
Choose your Plan Management method 67

68. Find additional information:
NDIS Understanding workshop 5
Plan Management explained
NDIS Understanding workshop 6
Is self-management for me? 68

69. Standing strong: The Planning Conversation
Plan Management and conflict of interest
Image circled in the notes. Cant remember why 69

70. Standing strong: NDIS Plans (Individualised Funding Package)70

71. Standing strong: NDIS Plans (Individualised Funding Package)
What if you are not happy with your NDIS Plan?
Should we avoid thumbs up? 71

72. Workshop review 72

73. Evaluations What is something you have learnt?
What have you found most valuable?
What do you think could be improved?
What is something you will take away? 73

74. Workshop review
Best outcome of the
NDIS Planning process 74

75. Workshop review
What are the common
elements of a good
NDIS Plan? 75

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