Positive Behaviour Support Plan Hobart
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Individuals who suffer from a permanent and significant disability are commonly being left out in life. Their disability hinders them from functioning productively in their daily lives and work towards achieving their goals. Having a challenging behaviour is one of the disabilities that can greatly affect an individual's normal life, their families, and their carers. It is a difficult task to support alone an individual who manifests this problematic and challenging behaviour. Since more and more Australians are being diagnosed with permanent and significant disability, the Australian Government has launched and implemented the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Act.
The NDIS Act is dedicated to the citizens and residents of Hobart and the rest of Australia, who suffer from a permanent and significant disability. This is to provide funding to help them overcome and eventually get rid of their disability. The NDIS Act was legislated in the year 2013 and was fully operational in the year 2020. On July 1, 2013, NDIS has started its rollout in Tasmania to provide support for ages 15 to 24 years old. Years later, the NDIS has fully completed its rollout and reached funding for ages 50-65 years old.
The NDIS, in partnership with their registered NDIS Provider, Positive Moods, will provide the Positive Behaviour Support Plan for citizens and residents of Hobart. Individuals who seek NDIS funding may reach through the Positive Moods to know whether they are eligible for Positive Behaviour Support. However, before applying for a Positive Behaviour Support Plan, it may be important to understand what challenging behaviour is and how Positive Behaviour Support Plan can help an individual.
A challenging behaviour can be defined as any behaviour that is complicated, uncontrollable, and alarming that can hamper a child or an adult's ability to learn, interact and partake in society. Individuals who manifest challenging behaviour may include other behaviours such as self-inflicting violence, aggressiveness, or damaging property. Mental health professionals know that a child or an adult who manifests this behaviour will have difficulty in learning and this challenging behaviour can have short-term and long-term effects on the individual.
Children who manifest challenging behaviour may have lesser social interaction lacks the interest in attending school and may be determined to have behavioural disorders. If a child who manifests challenging behaviour has been disregarded for the support they need, it can jeopardise their life in the long run. Later in life, these children will drop out of school, break the law due to felony, resort to drug abuse, meagre salary, less career achievement, and repeatedly failing in life.
Though challenging behaviour seems alarming, it is important to understand that this behaviour is a way a child or an adult communicates. Their problematic behaviour may be an attempt to convey a message of what they want, think and feel, and mental health professionals are trained to provide the assessment and managing individuals who manifest this problematic behaviour and to also determine the reasons for the occurrence of the challenging behaviour.
Since a challenging behaviour has long-term effects on an individual who manifests it, it is essential to identify the signs early on to immediately reach out for professional help and NDIS support. Individuals who manifest aggressiveness, depression, inability to overcome trauma, inadaptability to life transformation, manic and alarming behaviour, anxiousness, lack of compliance and academic interest, weak impulse control, poor communication, and lack of concentration ability may seek for NDIS Hobart Positive Behaviour Support Plan.
The Positive Behaviour Support Plan is a documented, evidence-based approach plan that is draughted after the participant assessment. The plan consists of an effective and proven positive approach to help the participant reduce and eliminate their problematic and challenging behaviour. The support plan is made to also help the participant’s families, their carers, and other supports system to help them manage the participant’s challenging behaviour and guide them with helpful strategies to transform their quality of living.
The support is provided through an initial assessment of the participant’s condition. The participants together with their families, carers, and other support systems will work with mental health professionals to provide all the necessary information about the participants such as the participant's preferences, their lifestyle, medical history, and other relevant information that will be helpful to create the documented plan. The mental health professionals will also conduct an in-depth consultation with the participants to get to know more about their life's perspective and goals they want to achieve in life.
Once the mental health professionals have conducted the required assessment of the participants, they will determine the reason why the challenging behaviour is occurring. The draughted support uses positive reinforcement that is tailored to each participant’s specific needs and goals in life. The support does not just end and focus on the challenging behaviour. Continuous consultation would still be needed to assess which strategies are working for the participants and whether further therapies or training are needed to develop and improve the skills of the participants to let them live independently in life.
A Positive Behaviour Support Plan is a huge help to individuals that are suffering from challenging behaviour. Since the plan is evidence-based and designed for long-term use, it can be guaranteed that this support will be beneficial for residents and citizens of Hobart who are suffering from problematic and challenging behaviour. The funding does not only provide support but also aims to improve the lives of the participants and empower them that their disability won't be a lifelong hindrance to live normally and work towards achieving their goals in life. The behaviour support plan's goal can be reached by taking advantage of the support provisions that eligible NDIS participants with a mental, cognitive, sensory, physical, and socio-psychological disability can take advantage.
For residents and citizens of Hobart who wish to avail of the NDIS Positive Behaviour Support Plan must first have met the eligibility criteria to acquire the NDIS funding. The set criteria are the following:
Falls under ages 7-65 years old
Lives in Australia, an Australian citizen, Permanent Visa holder, or Special Category Visa holder
Needs support systems and use of special equipment due to their permanent and significant disability
Needs urgent support to lessen the demand in the future
To know more details on the NDIS funding and the support they are offering for citizens and residents of Hobart, you can reach Positive Moods through our email ndis@positivemoods.com.au, or call us on 1300 001 470.
At Positive Moods, we also offer NDIS Positive Behaviour Support Plans.