Annie in wonderland

  So, I am hard on care workers and people who don’t know me may say a little two hard, but this comes from a place where I have had the good the bad, the ugly and criminal in support. I didn’t always have support or even identify as disabled and that is due to my amazing family and parents. I knew I was different but to me disabled was the kids in the wheelchairs that you only saw at the show or at the events put on for them, now I am attending them, they aren’t just for high support needs but for everyone with a disability and so much about what we know about disability has changed, and we now have much more education around disability and what it means to be disabled and that is a good thing. We also have the NDIS that meant care went from being highly specialized needing high level skills to just needing a ceritifcate 3 in support, basically if you could cook, clean, drive a car and learn you could do the job and that is amazing as there are many highly skilled young support wo

  Ok let’s talk and this is something that I need to get off my chest that some of you in the care industry shouldn’t be hear. I want to talk about something that happened this morning and the impact it had on me to the point I just collapsed crying outside, I finally have the courage to say what I need to say and that is that low support needs doesn’t mean no support needs. It means a lower level of support is needed. I know that I am an adult and able to cope with big girl tasks but when asking for help its your fucking job, is it that hard when I ask for help to do your fucking job, I waited 2hr and I just realised no one is coming to save me I am in a sil house ( basically a group home for people with disabilities for readers outside Aust and I   have realised no one besides my family is coming to help. Even when they are paid and its there fucking job, but there are some exceptions of staff in the house but generally I have realised I don’t ask for help because the other staff

  This is amazing how a little bit of attention before things get out of hand is amazing how a little bit of attention in doing something difficult in sending an email to the head office of my housing facility has saved a whole lot of drama down the line. I realise in writing this that we need to take a few steps back, so I have been living with a few things in my housing facility that I say aren’t ok and I have just lived above them but now it’s   was time to speak up. One being a neighbour that has complex and challenging behaviour’s of concern, and has extreme mental health issues that we are working with and I have compassion and understanding as she isn’t attached to reality and its something that we all understand but I feel and the support staff feel at times some is attention seeking and not mental health. I discovered that a few support workers are going to need to do a massive please explain in that they are on the dot of time or running late and not just the odd occasi

 Hey all so I put this on my stub stack but it's to important to forget about given that it's something that we really do need education and training on in support and a  refresher around how important it is to have boundaries and situational awareness to prevent harm in both sides as harm prevention is so much better that harm minimization and how do you do that is by having situational awareness and boundaries and its not hard to do respectfully when you have confidence in yourself and what you're doing but this is where people seem to go wrong around support and the role of a support worker in what they are able to do and there is so much of a grey area as well that one of the most dangerous phrases in support is to say, That's not my job or I will leave that for the others. This just leads to resentment in the care team and the person not getting the care the need, and that is why it's the most dangerous phrase in support.  I have posted over on Tic toc about su