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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 t

internet safety a warning and update

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This is a really important topic to talk about and we need to be aware of it as internet safety is something that we don’t talk about in the context of disability because people with disabilities often use the internet to connect with others and to be able to work remotely.    However, we are seeing that if you are isolated you are more likely to be scammed as a scammer would make you feel good and accepted, but their  end goal is to be able to make a connection and to make you feel safe but they are going to scam you. It is something that I feel we need to talk about it as it is something that people need to be aware of to talk openly about it because people are often ashamed to come forward and talk about it due to the complexity of the internet and the fact that our older generations don’t understand internet langue or etiquette that varies between sights as well and we see that this is something that we need to be aware of that various sights will target a different demograph

disability and emotions that I wish support workers knew.

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Disability and emotions and I see that this is going to be a challenging conversation that we need to have to be able to get to the bottom of things as the system as we know it has become to complicated with power going to the providers and not the clients commonly called the participants and this is a major issue that needs to be addressed due to the fact that many clients including myself have been emotionally harmed by rules and regulations that are put into place because of an incident that relates to something else and we see that this is a massive issue and we see that this ties into the systemic undertraining of support workers, we see that this can really harm some people due to the way that the rules aren’t really person-centered that they based around the medical model of disability and we see that this isn’t ok really and we see that people need to be aware of this as I have recently left a care organization due to, several factors.     Lack of consistent care team and a lac