Services

Creating a seamless connection with a range of disability support services in Newcastle

Flexible, Respected, Passionate, and Trusted – Dynamic Ability Support is here to help you lead a healthy and active lifestyle. We offer flexible Individual Supports, Support Coordination, Recovery Coaching, and several Group Programs. We form close participant-provider relationships to ensure that we personalise your supports and your support team to your unique and individual needs. If we do not offer what you are seeking, we will connect you with external services that suit your needs.

Individual Supports

We provide NDIS participants with individual supports to help them in their home and in the community. We work closely with you, your family and other service providers to help you build confidence and independence. The individual supports that you engage in will vary depending on your unique needs and goals, however they can include:

We offer a range of activities within our 1:1 Personal Supports program, including:

Budgeting
Travel training
Independent living skills, such as cooking
Exercise
Social skills development
Assist to connect with other services
Community volunteering

Coordination of Supports

Our Support Coordinators help to link and connect NDIS participants with mainstream and NDIS service providers. We will help you to build on the skills you need to understand, implement, and utilise your NDIS participant plan to its full capacity, which will help you to achieve your goals. Our Support Coordination team boast a vast array of skills experience, and our Support Coordination Team Leader will help to match your unique needs to a Support Coordinator within our team.

Connect you with support services and therapy service providers
Explain how to read your NDIS plan and use your funding
Help you liaise with service providers and set up supports
Attend your NDIS review to ensure you continue to receive the support you need
Strengthen your capacity to independently manage your support circle and NDIS funding.

Psychosocial Recovery Coach

The term ‘recovery’ is used widely throughout the mental health sector. It can have different meanings in different contexts.

The NDIA defines recovery as achieving an optimal state of personal, social and emotional wellbeing, as defined by each individual, whilst living with or recovering from a mental health condition.

Support participants to take more control of their lives and to better manage the complex challenges of day-to-day living
Work collaboratively with participants, their families, carers and other services to design, plan and implement a recovery plan, and assist with the coordination of NDIS and other supports
Disability focused support which is recovery orientated
Attend your NDIS review to ensure you continue to receive the support you need
Strengthen your capacity to independently manage your support circle and NDIS funding.

Social Group Activities

Dynamic Ability Support runs three social groups for NDIS participants in the Newcastle region. Each group provides a welcoming platform for people with disabilities to make friends, socialise and engage in the community.

See our monthly calendars on the Blog page.

Dynamic Wellness

Become more active and try new experiences in a social/community setting. We engage in a range of activities including bushwalking, soccer, swimming, touch football, frisbee and much more. Get in touch for our current schedule of group supports.

Expressability

This is an arts-based group promoting emotional and mental growth and features a strong element of sensory exploration. Expressability provides a space for participants to express themselves through art, working either independently or in a team.

9am-12pm Saturday fortnightly

Checkpoint

Checkpoint is a program designed to reduce isolation and screen time while providing a social platform for gamers to connect and engage within the community.

Checkpoint is 1pm – 4pm each Saturday at GVP Esports, Tighes Hill. Additional cost of $5 per hour for entry into GVP.

PRICING

DAS charges TTP rates in accordance with the NDIS price guide. The relevant prices are listed below.
These prices are current as of 01 July 2020.For more informtation on TTP pricing please visit https://www.ndis.gov.au/providers/price-guides-and-pricing#ndis-price-guide-2020-21

Name	Code	Unit	Amount
Assistance With Self-Care Activities – Standard – Weekday Daytime – TTP	01_011_0107_1_1_T	Hour	$58.80
Access Community Social And Rec Activities – Weekday Daytime – TTP	04_104_0125_6_1_T	Hour	$58.80
Assistance With Self-Care Activities – Standard – Saturday – TTP	01_013_0107_1_1_T	Hour	$82.48
Access Community Social And Rec Activities – Standard – Saturday – TTP	04_105_0125_6_1_T	Hour	$82.48
Assistance With Self-Care Activities – Standard – Sunday – TTP	01_014_0107_1_1_T	Hour	$106.17
Access Community Social And Rec Activities – Standard – Sunday – TTP	04_106_0125_6_1_T	Hour	$106.17