FLEXIBLE SUPPORT MODELS
Community Cooperative
The Community Cooperative is a unique innovative style of support service management. It helps like-minded tenants and members of the cooperative to share the cost of paying for on- site support so everyone’s NDIS Funding can go further.
Your Ability Housing tenancy arrangement is completely separate to your support arrangements. Meaning you can choose how you want your supports to be provided without it affecting where you choose to live.
Your support can be in several formats or as a combination include:
Supported Independent Living (SIL)
Assistance for individuals with disability to live independently in a shared home with support staff.
Flexible Core Supports
Adaptive assistance offering versatile aid to individuals with varying needs and disabilities.
Independent Living Option (ILO)
Empowering participants to live autonomously with tailored assistance, enhancing self-reliance and choice.
At Ability Housing, if you live independently alone or with your natural relationships (not a share home) we also provide you with the opportunity to choose to be part of a Community Cooperative.
This means you share some support resources with other members of the Cooperative in your building or housing development or complex (such as a groups of villas)
How can the Community Cooperative help you become more independent?
When you have funding for one-on-one supports, it’s a minimum 2 hour call out.
Below is a typical example of one-on-one support with a personal support worker
- 7.00am wakes you up, assist you out of bed
- 7.15am assists you to use the bathroom and have a shower
- 7.45am prepares your breakfast, puts a load of laundry on
- 8.00am makes the bed, washes up, tidies the lounge
- 8.20am mops and wipes the bathroom
- 8.40am folds and puts away laundry
- 8.50am sits with you to plan the rest of the day’s activities
- 9.00am leaves
You have a busy, action-packed two hours with a quiet four hours with no support until your afternoon carer arrives. This does not suit everyone’s needs and preferences. It doesn’t allow for flexibility and doesn’t help you do any admin tasks you might need to do in business hours.
Alternatively, you can use the Cooperative to join forces with two other members with the same funding.
- 6.00am wake up, cup of tea in bed (15 mins)
- 6.15am the support worker goes away to assist others in the cooperative
- 7.00am the support worker returns and provides you with direct one-to-one personal support, i.e. having a shower, etc (30 mins)
- 7.30am the support work leaves
- 8.00am the support worker prepares your breakfast and puts load of laundry on (breakfast 20 mins)
- 8.30am the support worker leaves
- 9.00am the support worker returns to provide domestic and administration help
- 9.20am the support worker leaves
- 10.00am the support worker returns to provide further domestic and administration help
- 10.20am the support work leaves
- 11.00am the support worker returns to prepare morning tea and provide other help (15 mins)
This can help your support budget go further and give you much more flexibility in how your choose to have your supports organised. Members of the collective need to commit to work together constructively to work through issues should they occur for the benefit of all tenants.