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  Kit List for Respite I recently returned from a respite holiday at the coast and discovered that even as an adult, I need a packing/kit list. A kit list, typically given for school or youth group camps, ensures everyone has what they need. I realized I needed one since I packed under supervision and still overpacked for two nights. This guide is designed for support workers and caregivers, and I'll be putting a tick box list on my pateron, shop as well, General Items Mobility Aids: Pack any necessary mobility aids such as wheelchairs, walking belts, wheelie walkers, or walking sticks. Medication: Ensure all medications are packed and, if required, have them Webster packed by the local pharmacy to reduce medication errors. Seasonal and Activity-Appropriate Clothing: Consider the season and activities when packing. Here are some questions to guide you: How is the person with food intake? This will determine if you need to pack sip cups and eating aids. How many sets of clothing

  Ok guys, so I owe my family a massive apology, and this post is going to be it. I see what they are saying about entitlement creeping into my life. I didn’t realize how bad my complaining had gotten. Let’s be a bit more grateful for what I have in terms of support, and appreciate that I don’t have to struggle anymore, either on my own or with family support. It’s amazing what the NDIS has done for me. Instead of complaining about onboarding new support staff, I should be thankful for what I have, which is a lot more than others. I recently visited Movie World on the Gold Coast and didn’t have to check my bank balance every time I wanted to purchase something, such as a souvenir or a bottomless drink. This was all thanks to the taxpayer-funded NDIS Respite program. In the past, respite was about giving family and support staff a break from you. Now, it’s about providing you with opportunities and experiences, which is amazing. I also want to give a shout out to the guest services for

  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

  I am safe was the words I uttered just now at 7.30 pm at night I don’t need to climb into bed and hide anymore. I am safe I   can be myself and not mask, I am getting the help I need I don’t know if it’s the open letter, or surrendering to my circumstances that I can’t change and asking for help in ways that I don’t expect. I still have all the usual bugbears but I finally feel safe in my home despite having a new support worker starting we see that this is normally a huge deal for me but we are seeing that people are more open to me and willing to help, I live in the lap of luxury but having people willing to help is amazing and working with me, not against me, is going to do my health wonders. So I am grateful for the good people who work in this industry and can help change lives I went from independent to the family home through the mess that was the COVID lockdowns, medication misadventures, and seizures but now I am in this wonderful Sil house (supported independent accommo

  An open letter to support staff and I want to say that this is not all support staff and care givers but I have to express this frustration that isn't just mine alone it is at boiling point when we have asked for change and the only way to get it is to wear the labels with pride, dignity and to not give up the fight.  If your having a negative reaction to this letter I would ask you to open your mind and heart and question why, as this is my lived experence of having " well trained expert,"s caring for me in my own home.    Dear Support Staff I understand that this is your job and I am your responsibility, but can I tell you my side of the story and why in your words I don’t “engage,” It is on your terms because of a myriad of reasons that I can understand yet when I speak up, directly to staff I am considered the problem, I live to hear and yet I am needing to put up with clients you favor when I am needing help. You seem to have no situational awareness to how lou

  How to survive a horror movie   This post started out as a dare from my housemates as on a Saturday afternoon when cleaning is done we watch whatever B roll strait to tv movie is on and we have worked out how to survive a horror movie, so this is a list of how to get out alive and I write it as a joke but well aware that some of these we teach young women to stay alive.   However these are intended as a joke and fun at the horror movie genre General tips ·        Be situationally aware don’t park in dark spots. ·        Don’t go following the stranger that is following you. ·        Don’t sit in your car alone lock the doors and drive off. ·        Drive straight to your location don’t take the dark detour. ·        Don’t talk on your mobile while walking home in the dark ·        Don’t go to the second location if offered freedom. ·        Don’t answer the baby cry it’s a trap call the cops. ·        Keep your hair tied back it could become a hazard or a weapon.