Build the capacity of parents and families to help prevent children with complex disability support needs from needing care outside the family home
What we have done and continue to do:
- Deliver the Parenting Children with Complex Disability Program. This is for families of children with complex disability needs. The program gives them extra support to give care in their home.
- The program also:
- helps families access the NDIS
- builds resilience and capacity to keep families safely together.
Lead division: Children and Families
Help families navigate the NDIS
What we have done and continue to do:
- Deliver the Family Services Specialist Disability Program, since 2021. The program:
- provides support to families where children and/or parents have a disability.
- supports families to access the NDIS and disability supports
- builds parenting capacity
- builds both disability and NDIS expertise across the child and family service system
- provides education and consultations
- keeps families safely together and upskills the family services sector.
Lead division: Children and Families
Expand the Parents with Intellectual Disability program to include intensive home-based care and case management.
Expand the Steps to Confident Parenting Program to provide early and intensive support for parents with cognitive impairment
What we have done and continue to do:
- The programs:
- provide wraparound family services
- offer early parenting and disability support to parents with cognitive impairment or disability
- offer intensive home-based case management responses
- keeps families safely together.
Lead division: Children and Families
Strengthen child protection practice advice regarding working with children with a disability
What we have done and continue to do:
- Updated the Child Protection Manual to include the role of Disability Practice Advisers. Advisers provide disability and NDIS-related advice to child protection practitioners. This includes:
- referral pathways
- advice for working with children with a disability.
Lead division: Children and Families and Community Operations and Practice Leadership