Support orgnizations and day programs.

I live with disabilities and receive limited support through an Australian program called the NDIS ( National Disability insurance program.) at its core and at the time of its inception was designed to improve the lives of people with disabilities, to live " more normal lives," 

This required the establishment of what are called support organizations, and support workers. I asked a person who is a support worker to write about what a good support worker is. This is now what a bad support worker working with people in a vulnerable state can do. 

I have heard stories and would love people to email me, or comment about what they have experienced good and bad. 

Convince people to enroll in programs and training courses that benefit them and not others 

Talk to medical professionals and convince them of unnecessary medical treatments. 

To promise what isn't realistic for that person, and tell the person that they just need to try harder. 

To have day programs that are a side program for recruiting people into their support agency. - I have volunteered with a program that could have been a brilliant facility yet the person in charge, really didn't want to put the hard yards into doing up the facility or let the higher functioning people lead what could have been a brilliant facility for education and social outlets as if a person with a disability isn't able to work they are placed on a pension yet this pension isn't a great lot of money. 

So if you can work or create your own business you're able to get ahead, yet often these businesses are touted as overnight successes, yet the person has been doing it for years.  Or the person has been able to receive massive amounts of support from their support agencies. 

Yet if you are in a regional area and have a great idea you can face a lot of opposition for even daring to speak up about disability issues, as the NDIS is supposed to solve a lot of the problems. I speak as a person trying to navigate the program and be a responsible citizen. I see if there was support for investors to back and support people with a disability to help them achieve their goals people wouldn't see the NDIS as a waste of money. 

One facility that I worked with the hygiene post covid isn't great and it has been marketed as a low-cost center, yet it has nothing to do that isn't able to be provided with social aspects in other better-run organizations. 

To me what needs to happen is that people with disabilities and their families need to be listened to

People with disabilities need to speak up. 

We need as a community to change the way we see and speak about a disability. 

As wider community members what do you think needs to change.