Complex needs and the start of the conversation.
So this is something
that we need to discuss it is a term we often hear thrown around and it means
very different things to different people, but in terms of the NDIS, it has a
very specific meaning. This is the term
complex needs as a person with a disability can have either just their disabilities
or chronic illnesses or have just one or the other as well.
Complex needs in terms of the NDIS:
“NDIS Participants are identified for the Complex Support
Needs Pathway by the complexity of their situation and personal factors such as
being homeless or returning to the community from living in residential aged
care. Involuntary or voluntary involvement with particular government systems
such as Justice or mental health would also be factors which would necessitate
entry to the complex support needs pathway.”
This is something, we need to be very aware of in that support workers are undertrained in being able
to work, with people with complex needs and we see that people need to be aware
of it, and this is where we need a multidisciplinary team to intervene in this
cases and this is where we see that there could be additional trauma, and additional
needs that might need to be able to see, an improvement in their circumstances
and we see that people need to be aware of this due to the fact that a multidisciplinary
team comes with additional challenges such as, having several different people
having different views on the person and we need to be aware of what strengths,
the client would have rather than their
needs as if we can change from a deficit approach to a strength based approach that
we see that people need to be aware of and that complex needs just means that a
person needs more support and having this awareness we see that people need to
be aware of this and helping to be the best they can be is something we need to
be aware of and helping to help them is a great way to be an Allie, but having
complex needs means that their might be a need for people to have things like
24/7 care or even support workers that are trauma informed and this does mean that
people need to be aware of it and even higher functioning people can and do have complex needs and this can be a
challenge due to the fact that people can mask well and it is only when people
take off the mask that we see that people need extra help but due to
assumptions people don’t see that they need the help and the unfortunate thing
is that people might need help that they can’t be given due to the fact that
people might need help with health issues but the NDIS only focuses on disability
and not health.
However, we need to have a discussion around this and how we
can better support people to be better and how to understand the real
complexity of disability and know how to prevent the re-traumatization of
people as support workers that aren’t trauma-informed can unintentionally re-traumatize
people but we see that this isn’t the case and that people need to be aware
that this is happening and that complex needs is something that we need to be
aware of.
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