Your NDIS Plan

Get in touch with us to organise a chat so CPA can help you prepare for your meeting with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) representative. In this pre-planning session we’ll provide a comprehensive personalised summary, outlining the key information you need for your NDIS meeting.

This will include your key goals and the services, supports, therapies and equipment you will need to achieve these goals. Take this document, along with medical reports and other documents, to your meeting with your NDIA planner to ensure they understand your support needs.

This meeting will be with an NDIA Local Area Coordinator (LAC) or if the under six years, an Early Childhood Support Access Partner (AP), and it can happen in person or over the phone.

The NDIA coordinator will discuss your goals, or the goals of the person in your care; the supports you or the person has now and the supports, services and equipment required to reach the goals that you have identified. After the meeting, the LAC or AP will submit the plan to the NDIA for funding. Once this has been reviewed it will be sent to you.

The NDIS offers supports framed around short- and long-term goals that you or the person you are caring for identifies. Think about what you want to try, what you like doing, want to keep doing or want to change. Also consider what could boost your morale, make daily activities easier or help you get work or stay in your job.

It’s important to focus on practical things – for example, perhaps you want to make new friends, lose weight, improve speech, travel independently, try a new hobby or improve mobility. These goals will be categorised under NDIS categories such as Improved Daily Living Skills, Improved Health and Wellbeing, Increase Social and Community Participation or School Leaver Employment Supports.

Once you have your NDIS plan, we suggest you meet with us to discuss the supports, therapies, services or equipment you need to meet your goals. For example, if one of your goals is to improve communication, you may want to access speech therapy; or if you wanted to improve your health and wellbeing you may want to attend hydrotherapy or join our gym program. To facilitate this, we would provide a service agreement outlining the services we will provide including the hours involved and our fees.

Before you begin receiving services with us, we will assess your current needs and skills– or the needs and skills of the person you care for. This is to ensure that any expected outcomes or improvements towards meeting your goals can be measured. A review will be provided at the end of the service and we will give you a report that you can take to your next NDIS plan review meeting.