1. NDIS and Employment
School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES) and the NDIA Functional Capacity Assessment (FCA)
2017

2. Agenda Role of Brotherhood of Saint Lawrence NDIS and employment SLES
The Functional Work Assessment
Next steps

3. Brotherhood of St Laurence NDIS Local Area Co-ordination (LAC)
The role of the LAC in North East Melbourne Area (NEMA)

4. The NDIS Pathway
Access
Pre - planning
Planning
Implementation
Review

5. First step: How will I join the NDIS?
Step 1: You will receive a letter in the mail from the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA)
Step 2: You will get a phone call from NDIA representative to confirm access.
Step 3: Once your access is confirmed you will be contacted to start your planning conversation.

6. The planning process:
Think about your needs and goals; and your current supports (pre-planning sessions can support you to do this)
Develop your plan with your Local Area Coordinator or NDIA Planner. LAC submits the plan to be approved by a NDIA delegate
Start your approved plan.
Review your plan.
Any questions or worries during the process please contact your Local Area Coordinator

7. Who can attend the planning conversation?
You can bring anyone with you to the planning meeting
Some will bring their family or nominee/guardian
Some will bring advocates to support them
Others will bring providers

8. What does the NDIS fund?
The Scheme funds supports which can help a person undertake general daily living activities. These include:
Planning and decision making, and support to complete household tasks.
Capacity building assistance so participants can live independently and achieve their goals (i.e. building social relationships, financial management and tenancy management skills).
Supports to engage with the local community so participants can participate in recreation, education, training and employment activities.

9. What doesn’t the NDIS fund?
There are rules for the NDIS that mean some supports cannot be funded in an NDIS plan
The NDIS will not fund:
Supports that are not related to a person’s disability
Supports that are funded by a different system
Day-to-day living costs that everyone pays for such as food, electricity and water

10. Education and employment
The Education and Employment services still have a legal obligation to provide support and reasonable adjustments to assist people with disabilities in accessing work and education activities.
To be in line with Disability Discrimination Act 1992

11. teaching, learning assistance, modifications and transport
Education
It is the expectation that the schooling system will continue to:
Schools
Fulfil compulsory nature of schooling
Provide reasonable adjustments
teaching, learning assistance, modifications and transport
Higher education

12. Employment Employment services and programs must still support:
People with a disability
Prepare for, find and maintain a job
Employers
To hire and be inclusive of people with a disability
To hire and To provide support, training and resources
To make reasonable adjustments
To provide work-specific support

13. Can I choose who provides me with supports?
The funding in your NDIS plan lets you choose how your supports are delivered and who provides your support
This means you can choose the provider or support worker you will work with
If you need some help to choose your providers, a Support Coordinator or Local Area Coordinator can help you.

19. Next steps: Pre- Planning workshops
Brotherhood of St Laurence (BSL) are holding pre-planning workshops for participants and family members at their main locations:
Greensborough – 65 Main St Greensborough
Thomastown – 1/1 Latitude Blvd Thomastown
Preston – 293 High St. Preston
South Morang – 16/ 797 Plenty Rd. South Morang
Please call BSL on or drop into an office to book a session.

20. Employment: an ordinary life
“For me an ordinary life is being able to access employment and be able to get around the workplace independently”. Sharyn Craven People with disability “don’t want anything special. They just want to get out and do the same kind of stuff as everybody else. They want to get a job”. Kirsten Deane

21. Employment supports for people with disability