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NDIS Pre-Planning

FREE: Learn all about how to get ready for the NDIS, handy tips and tricks, checklists and more. (all content in this section is free to read when you register)

Have you got a support worker brief?

Have you got a support worker brief?

Preparing an emergency plan for a natural disaster?

Preparing an emergency plan for a natural disaster?

NDIS Planning Meeting Checklist

NDIS Planning Meeting Checklist

NDIS Basics

Start here if you've just got your plan and you want help to understand it all and make the most of it.

Steps to Fix a Mucked up NDIS Claim for Self Managers

Steps to Fix a Mucked up NDIS Claim for Self Managers

If a Provider is Stealing from Your NDIS Plan.

If a Provider is Stealing from Your NDIS Plan.

Alphabet Soup – a list of common NDIS acronyms

Alphabet Soup – a list of common NDIS acronyms

NDIS Money Management

Agency, Self or Plan Management? It's an important decision for your NDIS plan - find out the pros and cons and which one is right for you, along with tips and tricks.

Do you have disability equipment you don’t need any more?

Do you have disability equipment you don’t need any more?

If a Provider is Stealing from Your NDIS Plan.

If a Provider is Stealing from Your NDIS Plan.

Questions to Ask When Choosing a Provider

Questions to Ask When Choosing a Provider

NDIS Admin Tips

How do you get hold of someone, how do you get things fixed, and what does all the jargon mean?

Steps to Fix a Mucked up NDIS Claim for Self Managers

Steps to Fix a Mucked up NDIS Claim for Self Managers

If a Provider is Stealing from Your NDIS Plan.

If a Provider is Stealing from Your NDIS Plan.

Impairment Categories and Your NDIS Eligible Disabilities

Impairment Categories and Your NDIS Eligible Disabilities

NDIS Self Management

Self Management offers all kinds of awesomeness, but only if you know how - find out all the tips and tricks of self management, self employment, and more.

Steps to Fix a Mucked up NDIS Claim for Self Managers

Steps to Fix a Mucked up NDIS Claim for Self Managers

Questions to Ask When Choosing a Provider

Questions to Ask When Choosing a Provider

20 Tips for Service Agreements and briefs for Support Workers!

20 Tips for Service Agreements and briefs for Support Workers!

Spending NDIS Funding

So... how can you actually spend that money to reach goals for you or the person you care for? We have the skinny!

Impairment Categories and Your NDIS Eligible Disabilities

Impairment Categories and Your NDIS Eligible Disabilities

How a Level 3 Support Coordinator Can Help Parents of Young Kids

How a Level 3 Support Coordinator Can Help Parents of Young Kids

20 Tips for Service Agreements and briefs for Support Workers!

20 Tips for Service Agreements and briefs for Support Workers!

NDIS Reassessments, Reviews and Changes

Reassessment, S100 (RORD) Review of Reviewable Decision, Change of Circumstances Review - AAARRRGGHH! Check out our info on how to make sense (and the best) of it all.

NEW NDIS Funding periods – What you need to know

NEW NDIS Funding periods – What you need to know

Impairment Categories and Your NDIS Eligible Disabilities

Impairment Categories and Your NDIS Eligible Disabilities

Questions to Ask When Choosing a Provider

Questions to Ask When Choosing a Provider

Finding and Choosing Supports

It's hard to find the right providers and people to support you or the person you love. Let us help you get the info you need to be innovative, creative and get what you need.

How a Level 3 Support Coordinator Can Help Parents of Young Kids

How a Level 3 Support Coordinator Can Help Parents of Young Kids

Questions to Ask When Choosing a Provider

Questions to Ask When Choosing a Provider

20 Tips for Service Agreements and briefs for Support Workers!

20 Tips for Service Agreements and briefs for Support Workers!

Finding, Hiring and Briefing Support Workers

Finding a great support worker is no mean feat - let us help you with ideas on how to find good people, and how to hire or contract, and even how to make sure they do a good job for you.

20 Tips for Service Agreements and briefs for Support Workers!

20 Tips for Service Agreements and briefs for Support Workers!

Have you got a support worker brief?

Have you got a support worker brief?

What is a Service-for-One?

What is a Service-for-One?

AAT (Administrative Appeals Tribunal)

If you *really* want to get deep into the guts of the NDIS, this is the place for you - for NDIS Nerds only!

Got a new disability to add to your NDIS Plan?

Got a new disability to add to your NDIS Plan?

Going to AAT part 3/3 | Eight *really* important things to know about going to AAT

Going to AAT part 3/3 | Eight *really* important things to know about going to AAT

Going to AAT part 2/3 | The 15 Steps of AAT

Going to AAT part 2/3 | The 15 Steps of AAT

NDIS QandA

This is where we're parked all sorts of random tips and interesting stuff - dip your toes in to find out something new!

How a Level 3 Support Coordinator Can Help Parents of Young Kids

How a Level 3 Support Coordinator Can Help Parents of Young Kids

Sending stuff to the NDIS?

Sending stuff to the NDIS?

Art and Music Therapy in the firing line (FREE TO READ)

Art and Music Therapy in the firing line (FREE TO READ)

Centrelink and Other Services

What's EMEP, CAPS, SATSS and all that, and how can we get a discount on Qantas and Virgin flights, and can a 16yo get DSP? - the answers are all here!

Teens and young adults with disability, going off the rails…

Teens and young adults with disability, going off the rails…

How a Level 3 Support Coordinator Can Help Parents of Young Kids

How a Level 3 Support Coordinator Can Help Parents of Young Kids

Shared Equity Home Loans in Australia (for people who aren’t millionaires!)

Shared Equity Home Loans in Australia (for people who aren’t millionaires!)

Advocacy and Human Rights

How do you find and advocate, and how can I advocate better for myself or the person I love? Go on and click, we dare you!

If a Provider is Stealing from Your NDIS Plan.

If a Provider is Stealing from Your NDIS Plan.

The Growing Space Easy English Acknowledgements.

The Growing Space Easy English Acknowledgements.

Teens and young adults with disability, going off the rails…

Teens and young adults with disability, going off the rails…

Education and Schooling

Do you know your child's education rights? Or are you looking a checklist to help you find a good school, or a template for a letter to send to the teacher?

What is Burnout?

What is Burnout?

Teens and young adults with disability, going off the rails…

Teens and young adults with disability, going off the rails…

How a Level 3 Support Coordinator Can Help Parents of Young Kids

How a Level 3 Support Coordinator Can Help Parents of Young Kids

Health and Behaviour

Positive Behaviour Supports, Improved relationships, restrictive practises and awesome dentists and reflux... intrigued? Check out how important they all are!

Do you have disability equipment you don’t need any more?

Do you have disability equipment you don’t need any more?

The Growing Space Easy English Acknowledgements.

The Growing Space Easy English Acknowledgements.

What is Burnout?

What is Burnout?

Covid 19

Please freely share these resources produced by The Growing Space to help understand how best to protect people with disabilities and their families. No membership subscription to our website is required to access these. 

e-learning

Get the info you need to live your life, and at your own pace, online. We are disabled people and families supporting our peers to live a full, inclusive life in the community with choice and control.

Aging Boldly

Aging Boldly

Moving Out | Preparing to move out of your family home

Moving Out | Preparing to move out of your family home

Love and Intimacy

Love and Intimacy