Group & Centre-Based Activities
PowerCare provides supported group and centre-based activities in Sydney — being somewhere with other people, doing something worth doing, with the support needed to actually take part.
What this support is
Group and centre-based activities are supported activities done with other people — a program, a class, a group, a shared thing worth doing.
PowerCare holds NDIS registration group 136 (Group / Centre-Based Activities).
Centre-based and in the community
Group activities happen in two kinds of place, and both are funded from the Core supports budget under registration group 136:
- Centre-based — a regular program at a set location: a class, a skills group, a social group, a shared interest run on the same day each week.
- In the community — the same idea, out in the world: a group heading to a café, a park, a gallery, a class run somewhere ordinary rather than in a disability centre.
Which one suits a participant depends on what they want and what they can manage. Some people want the predictability of the same room each week; others want to be out. Both are valid, and both can be funded.
What makes a group support worth attending
Being in a room with other people is not automatically company, and being busy is not automatically meaningful. A group support is worth someone’s Tuesday if they actually wanted to be there, and if the support ratio is honest enough that they can take part rather than watch.
Participants and families should ask any provider two questions: what is the actual activity, and what is the actual staffing ratio. If the answers are vague, that is an answer.
Complex needs in group settings
Participants with high clinical support needs are routinely excluded from group activities, on the grounds that a group setting cannot manage a trach, a feed, or a bowel program.
PowerCare holds registration group 104 with Practice Standards Module 1, so those supports can be delivered where the participant is. Where they are high intensity, 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.
Who it’s for
Participants with group or centre-based activity funding in their NDIS plan who want to be somewhere with other people — including participants whose clinical needs have kept them out of groups until now.
How to start
Call us. Tell us what the person is interested in and what support they need to be there. We will be straight with you about what we can offer 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.