Yes, We are a registered NDIS Provider

We are passionate about working with you to provide you with tailored supports to meet your goals in the best way possible.
Our focus is Mental Health, Autism, Acquired Brain Injury and Dual Diagnosis.
Our organisation has twenty years’ plus experience providing us with extensive knowledge of our community and resources that will prove beneficial to you.
Our Lived Experience Workers bring to their role a wealth of experience complimented by extensive training qualifications to provide quality support. We are committed to working with your individual interests and skills to find fulfilling social activities, assisting you connecting you with your community.
We understand the requirements of NDIS from all perspectives and are well placed to provide NDIS support throughout the registration process and beyond.
We can assist you to put your plan into action, Contact us to start the conversation.

We provide access to :

  • Psychosocial Support Co-ordination
  • Domestic Assistance, Home Maintenance and Gardening
  • Social Activities, Community Participation
  • Skill Support and Education .
  • Group Activities
  • Respite Care
  • Allied Health Services
  • Transport
  • Therapeutic Support
  • Behaviour Support
  • Psychosocial Recovery Coaching
Registered NDIS Provider

COMMUNITY FOCUS NDIS PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT COORDINATION

Community Focus Association is a specialist organisation we believe our strength lies in providing responses that sit with our skill base, We identify as a lived experience practice providing Psychosocial Support Coordination for individuals who experience Mental Health and Addiction, Autism, and Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).

We have, in our 20 years of providing services to the Sunshine Coast, continue to compile an extensive knowledge of mainstream services and community supports to assist choice.

Community Focus Association are a NDIS Registered Psychosocial Support Coordination service.

THE BENEFITS OF PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT COORDINATION

Our goal is to work responsibility with you to assist you to create the most purposefully way to utilise your support budgets to achieve your goals.

Psychosocial Support Coordination is an essential component of developing access to services tailored to meet your needs, support capacity building, inform choices and build on your ability to act independently. We will work with you to interpret and apply your NDIS plan to progress your journey.

Our role is to support you to efficiently and effectively get your choice of services operating at the pace you set, within the parameters of your funded plan.

If you would like us to be your Psychosocial Support Coordinator, you can nominate Community Focus as your preferred Psychosocial Support Coordinator to your planner and they will forward us a "Request for Service" and we will contact you, or you can contact us
Service Providers
  • Assist you to identify the service and service providers that best meet your individual needs, including assessing a number of mainstream, and community provider options
  • Negotiate services to be provided, develop service agreements and  create service bookings with preferred providers
  • Negotiate services and prices as part of any quotable supports
  • Arrange any assessments required
Plan Support
  • Monitor your NDIS plan outcomes/spending
  • Redevelop your goals prior to your NDIS plan review
  • Decide the budget for each support type and advise any relevant plan manager of the breakdown of funds and liaise with any plan manager to establish the appropriate claim categories and attribute the correct amount of funds
  • Provide the NDIS with reports on outcomes and success indicators within the agreed reporting frequency

Support Connection

Step 1

Arrange meeting to discuss with us what you are looking for in a service
provider,
  • Are we the best service for you
  • What are your options, assist informed choice
  • Do we have the knowledge to effectively link you to appropriate providers
  • We are happy to provide information on other providers if we are not able to effectively meet your needs

Step 2

If you decide to engage us as your Psychosocial Support Coordinator
  • We will provide you with a service agreement pack
  • You will be supported to read and sign agreement
  • Open discussion to clarify any/all elements of agreement
  • A copy will be provided to you at confirmation of agreement
  • Notify NDIS, permission for us to access your plan on PRODA
  • Where required provide information on Plan managers, or if plan manager already engaged provide details.

Step 3

Explore provision of support needs
  • Discuss support needs
  • Identify support provisions available in plan
  • Paced responses determined by participant
  • Offer details of available providers
  • Develop timetable with participant
For NDIS Information: Call 1800 800 110 or go to www.ndis.gov.au/participant