Community Participation
PowerCare supports NDIS participants in Sydney to get out of the house and into community life — including innovative community participation, and participants with complex clinical needs who are usually left at home.
What this support is
Community participation is support to be out in the world: the shops, the gym, the pool, a class, a football game, a job interview, a friend’s place, a coffee somewhere nobody knows you.
PowerCare holds registration group 125 (Participate Community) and registration group 116 (Innovative Community Participation) — the second of which exists for the things that don’t fit the usual mould, where the support is built around what the person actually wants rather than what a program offers.
The part nobody says out loud
Participants with complex clinical needs are the ones most often left at home. Not because they want to be, but because taking someone out with a trach, or a PEG feed due at 1pm, or a bowel program that cannot be skipped, requires a worker who is trained for it.
PowerCare holds registration group 104 with Practice Standards Module 1. That means the clinical support can go where the person goes, and “we can’t take him out” stops being a sentence anyone has to hear.
Where high-intensity supports are involved, they are delivered either by registered nurses, or by support workers with high-intensity training working under registered-nurse supervision — depending on the participant’s clinical needs and circumstances. That is as true in a shopping centre as it is in a bedroom.
What a shift looks like
It looks like whatever the person wanted to do, with someone alongside them making it possible: transport there, support while there, support with the parts that are hard, and home again.
It is not a bus tour of the same three venues. Where a participant’s goal is a specific one — a course, a volunteer role, a sport, a community they want to be part of — the support is built around that.
Who it’s for
Any participant with community participation funding in their plan, including participants with high clinical support needs, and including participants whose community goals are unusual enough that a standard group program has never fitted them.
How to start
Call us and tell us what the person actually wants to do, and what has stopped them so far. We will tell you honestly whether we can deliver it, and when.
One team, not a referral chain.
Most participants need more than one of these. Every support below is delivered by the same PowerCare team, under the same registration.
Tell us what's happening.
One call. A real person. An honest answer about whether we can help — including if the answer is no. Registered NDIS provider in Sydney.