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Support Coordination

Here at Sommerville Community Services, Support Coordination is one of the many services we provide. We have support coordinators right across the Northern Territory to assist with your needs.

What is Support Coordination:

Support to help you understand, implement, and monitor your NDIS plan.

Support Coordination links you in with NDIS providers, community, and mainstream services to establish supports to meet your needs and help you achieve your goals.

Support Coordination builds the skills and capacity for participants to become more confident and independent in navigating the NDIS and their plan.

What a Somerville Support Coordinator can do for you:

  • Help you to understand and navigate the NDIS
  • Implement your NDIS plan
  • Help you to establish reasonable and necessary supports
  • Link you in with support and services to meet your needs
    • Send referrals
    • Obtain quotes
    • Review service agreements
  • Connect you with community, mainstream and informal supports
  • Facilitate meetings with your care team
  • Focus on supporting you to build your skills and independence to self-manage your plan where reasonable
  • Monitor your NDIS plan budgets
  • Liaise with the NDIA to provide reports and updates accordingly
  • Help you to prepare for a plan review
  • Provide clear and transparent information and promote your choice and control

What is Specialist Support Coordination (SSC):

A specialist level of Support Coordination used for people whose circumstances are more complex and require additional oversight and support to overcome barriers.

Specialist Support Coordinators assist during times of crises and significant life transitions to manage challenges and risk to ensure successful plan outcomes.

Specialist Support Coordination is often time-limited and focuses on reducing complexity in your support environment.

What a Somerville Specialist Support Coordinator can do for you:

  • Connect, coordinate, and negotiate support solutions
  • Address complex barriers
  • Design complex service plans
  • Crises management: planning, prevention, and mitigation.
  • Coordinate significant life transitions
  • Facilitate regular stakeholder meetings
  • Report to the NDIA

What you can expect from our Support Coordinators:

  • Kindness
  • Compassion
  • Reliability
  • Flexibility
  • Honesty & Transparency

Advocacy

Please note Support coordinators can assist participants in understanding how they will engage and participate in NDIA processes. However, Support Coordinators are not funded to act as Advocates in NDIA processes as advocacy services are funded separately by the Department of Social Services (DSS). You can contact NDAP National Disability Advocacy Program | Department of Social Services, Australian Government (dss.gov.au) for advocacy information.

For more information on Somerville’s Support Coordination Services please contact us on (08) 89204100 or email us at scs@somerville.org.au

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