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Positive Behaviour Support

Recognising behaviour as an expression of unmet needs, we deliver support to reduce challenging behaviours and improve your quality of life.

Positive behaviour support at Everyday Independence focuses on the reasons behind the use of challenging behaviours, with a goal to reduce or eliminate them.

Our approach, the Everyday Way, involves behaviour support practitioners working in your environment to understand you, your family, and your routine. By partnering closely with you and your support members, we can pinpoint your triggers, then create strategies to reduce or eliminate the use of challenging behaviours.

What to Expect with Positive Behaviour Support

Our behaviour support practitioners are highly trained and passionate about unpacking behaviours and ensuring yours and your support members’ safety and well-being.

Here’s how we help:

  • Assess your abilities and everyday environments to identify reasons for the use of challenging behaviours. 
  • Use our findings to develop effective strategies to reduce challenging behaviours, which are outlined in an Interim Behaviour Support Plan and issued within 30 days of seeing you if there are restrictive practices in place, and a Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plan within 6 months. 
  • Ensure that everyone who supports you understands your Behaviour Support Plan – triggers, interventions, and how to be consistent and safe in response to behaviours of concern.  
  • Build skills like emotional regulation and developing better habits and routines to increase independence and improve quality of life.
  • Connect with essential services like mental health, family support, employment, and more to help you reach your goals. 

Which Best Describes you?

Positive Behaviour Support Stories of Impact

Read how our behaviour support practitioners are helping people of all ages achieve more than they thought possible with their dedicated support.

Emilee’s Energising Exchange

Art therapy helps Emilee overcome separation anxiety and build her independence.

Supporting Jackson in a Challenging Time

Jackson and his family get the support they need to navigate a stressful situation.

Leigh Connects with her Community

Leigh’s takes part in meaningful activities and regulates her emotions.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Behaviour Support Plan?

The journey to making positive life changes starts by crafting a personalised Behaviour Support Plan with you and your trusted team. This plan becomes a go-to guide filled with solutions to tackle challenging behaviours and keep everyone safe. It ensures we’re all on the same page, focusing on skill-building.

Firstly, we’ll develop an Interim Behaviour Support Plan if there are restrictive practices being used, and you’ll receive this within 30 days of your assessment to share, review, and update regularly with your team. The interim plan clearly sets the preventative, or environmental changes needed, and ensures consistency and predictability of support.

Then, within six months of seeing you, we’ll create a Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plan. This plan benefits from the extra time we’ve spent with you, additional assessments, and tested strategies. We’ll dig into what the behaviours mean, what you’re trying to express, what’s working well, and what needs more focus.

Where a plan includes a restrictive practice, we’ll send it to the relevant states and territories’ Office of the Senior Practitioner for authorisation and the NDIS Commission for monitoring the use of restrictive practices.

Our goal is to make sure everyone knows the plan and how to use it in their daily lives.

Who are Everyday Independence Behaviour Support Practitioners?

Our behaviour support practitioners are specially trained and dedicated to supporting children, teenagers and adults who use challenging behaviours.

Selected for their skills and qualities, they offer exceptional therapy support with compassion and an open mind.

At Everyday Independence, our practitioners undergo continuous training and development to offer evidence-based, person-centered positive behaviour support to people of all ages.

What are Restrictive Practices?

A restrictive practice limits a person’s rights or freedom of movement. They’re typically used in response to challenging behaviours and should always be a last resort. Restrictive practices include chemical, physical, environmental, and mechanical restraints, and seclusion.

Our behaviour support practitioners are committed to reducing or eliminating restrictive practices; restoring the person’s dignity and independence, and enhancing their quality of life.

Under the NDIS, certain restrictive practices are regulated and must be authorised by the respective States or Territory, with monitoring and reporting to the NDIS Commission of Quality and Safeguards.

Do Behaviour Support Practitioners Write Outcome Reports?

Yes, we report on the outcomes the participant has achieved with the funding utilised, including any barriers and outlining what’s needed in the next NDIS plan to achieve their desired outcomes.

We’re Ready to Get you Started

To get started with positive behaviour support our practitioner comes to your home to get to know you, your family and other members of your support team. They take a whole of life approach to set you on your pathway to positive change.

Not yet a NDIS participant? Visit our NDIS pages for information on getting your plan funded.

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