How can Stepping Stone help you to apply for NDIS?

Stepping Stone can work alongside our members to help with:

  • Understanding the NDIS application process.

  • Obtaining relevant support evidence.

  • Preparing you for your NDIS planning meeting.

  • Attending the NDIS planning meeting with you.

If you have any questions regarding how Stepping Stone can help you to apply for NDIS, please contact us here or talk to one of our NDIS representatives.

What NDIS support does Stepping Stone provide?

Stepping Stone is a registered NDIS Provider - (Provider ID 4050004560). We provide support under the following categories. More detailed information can be found here in our Stepping Stone NDIS Price Guide (effective from November 14, 2024).

If you are already on NDIS and would like to access our NDIS services, please let us know what support you need, then we will give you a quote for the provision of support requested. Once we have heard from you that you have agreed to the services in the quote, we will prepare a service agreement between you and Stepping Stone Clubhouse Inc. For prospective members, please note that your NDIS Service Agreement with Stepping Stone Clubhouse Inc., needs to be active before you become a member.

If you have any further questions about accessing our programs, please contact our team on (07) 3847 1058 or email us at NDIS@steppingstoneclubhouse.org.au

CORE SUPPORTS

A support that enables a participant to complete activities of daily living and enables them to work towards their goals and meet their objectives.

  • Assistance with Social and Community Participation

  • Assistance with Daily Life

  • Supports in Employment

  • Self-management Capacity Building

CAPACITY BUILDING SUPPORTS

A range of supports that enable a participant to build their independence and skills and help participants choose supports that will help them in achieving their goals.

  • Support Coordination

  • Improved Daily Living Skills

  • Increased Social & Community Participation

  • Improved Living Arrangements

CORE SUPPORTS INFORMATION

Assistance with Social and Community Participation

Access Community, Social and Recreational Activities – Provision of individual supports to enable a member to engage in community/social or recreational activities within the community.

Group Activities – Provision of supports to enable a member to engage in:

  • Work Ordered Day (WOD) - Stepping Stone activities for members to work alongside staff in the units

  • Social and Recreational Activities in a group during the weekday in the afternoons and on weekends and Public Holidays. Click here for this month’s social recreation calendar.

Supports in Employment – Support for members who are employed and who need support in performing their work tasks or need frequent prompting and coaching to stay on track and/or communicate with others. Includes support in Transitional Employment positions with Stepping Stone.

Assistance with Daily Living

Assistance with Personal Domestic Activities – This includes individual supports for a member to undertake or develop skills to maintain their home environment where the member owns their own home or has sole or substantial responsibility for its maintenance.

Self-Management Capacity Building - This strengthens members’ abilities to manage their support effectively and enhance self-management skills, including plan administration and management tasks like organising, engaging providers, enhancing support direction, developing service agreements, financial management, record keeping, paying providers, and claiming NDIA payments. This support complements other capacity building efforts to empower members with choice and control over their plans

CAPACITY BUILDING SUPPORTS INFORMATION

Support Coordination and Psychosocial Recovery Coach

Level 1: Support Connection – Time-limited assistance to strengthen member’s ability to connect with informal, mainstream and funded supports, and to increase capacity to maintain support relationships, resolve service delivery issues, and participate independently in NDIA processes.

Level 2: Support Coordination – Assistance to strengthen member’s abilities to connect to and coordinate informal, mainstream and funded supports in a complex service delivery environment. This includes resolving points of crisis, developing capacity and resilience in a member's network and coordinating supports from a range of sources.

Psycho-social Recovery Coaching - Provides assistance for members to build capacity and resilience through strong and respectful relationships to support people with psycho-social disability to live a full and contributing life. This support is designed to be able to maintain engagement through periods of increased support needs due to the episodic nature of mental illness. Recovery coaches work collaboratively with participants, families, carers and other services to identify, plan, design and coordinate NDIS supports.

Improved Daily Living

Skill Development and Training – Individual support and training to increase general life skills to increase a participant’s independence.

Assistance with Decision Making, Daily Planning and Budgeting – Providing time limited individual support and training to build a participant’s capacity to develop and maintain an appropriate budget, decision-making frameworks, identify their priorities, and strategies to achieve their goals.

Increased Social and Community Participation

Skills Development and Training – Provides individual life skills development and training including public transport training and support, developing skills for community, social and recreational participation.

Improved Living Arrangements

Assistance with Accommodation and Tenancy Obligations – Individual support to guide, prompt, or undertake activities to ensure the participant obtains or retains appropriate accommodation.