Recognising behaviour as an expression of unmet needs, we deliver support to reduce challenging behaviours and improve quality of life.
Starting with the belief that all behaviours are an expression of unmet needs and that everyone has the right to communicate their needs, make choices, and have control in their life, we develop effective solutions and opportunities that support your loved one to express their needs and have more choice and control in their life.
Heather, a devoted mother, shares her firsthand experience of working with our team and the impact it has had on her daughter, Amy’s life.
Your practitioner is with you every step of the way, ensuring everyone supporting you is integrating personalised strategies into all aspects of your life and being consistent.
Your practitioner connects with essential services – mental health, parent support, employment, and more – finding opportunities and resources to help reach your goals.
Behaviour Support Plans are tailored to your strengths and goals, incorporating the therapies and services needed to drive positive, lasting change.
Your behaviour support practitioner collaborates with your therapy and support teams, and connects with community services, so your loved one has the opportunities and resources to achieve their goals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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