These are such great and informative podcasts for carers. I’m glad to have come across them. 👍 My son tried the public “mainstream” mental health system for 13 years and almost died several times. The NDIS saved him and we couldn’t be more grateful for it.
George, thank you for sharing how traumatising these assessments really are. For pwd who live with complex ptsd psychosocial disabilities, these processes are devastatingly harmful and create complex and high risk barriers to accessing support.
Thankyou Peter for the acknowledging the great work sm are doing. Hopefully when the research grants go out, sm will be where the researchers go to collect their findings, not SP.
I really hope self managed people won’t be forced to use registered providers, especially if they are smart enough to know how to use the funds and make decisions about who does the work. I’m legally blind but I’m a professional educated person who wants workers who relate to me this way. I used to work in the WA system years ago and found out that they hate intelligent people with high functioning disabilities.
The public and government thinks that all people with disabilities are stupid and too uneducated to hold power and are not taken seriously on the rare occasion that they are involved with big decisions. Some of us are smart, high functioning, and educated. The majority of people don’t have a disability so the election will not matter. The mainstream media doesn’t cover these issues so the won’t go on the election agenda except when it comes to cost savings.
People who have adhd or add or npd or bipolar or Asperger’s etc are smart high functioning with disability just not severe enough or want therapy should be individual choice
@@sportygirlplays yes therapy should be a choice for the individual. I agree that most people with the issues you mentioned are indeed intelligent. What I meant was that most of the clients receiving services from my former employer were violent and or very agreeable towards the caregivers. Management were blaming the workers and didn’t care about their safety or wellbeing. They refused to hold clients accountable for their actions and kick the dangerous ones out. I worked in HR and they hardly accommodated my disability even though I asked for very little. They seemed to like disabilities that simulate the hormones of baby brain after giving birth. I was a professional with lots of office experience and the managers were mostly caseworkers or caregivers without corporate management behaviours. They were not strategic and too emotional about clients during meetings. They were bullies some of the time and treated me very poorly.
Peter is spot on.. they are already implementing it, look at the jobs advertised, tertiary qualified "intake and review officers" to build plans. The 23 jobs within ndia advertised last week shows they've already began implementing these changes prior to finalising town hall tour and gathered feedback.
My first two LACs though Bapcare here in Tas were great. They understood personal connection. Both left after one year because they were fed up with the NDIS/NDIA Then a lovely young girl turned up who was completely out of her depth. I suspect these 'navigators' will be like the planners ..... bullies doing the NDIA bidding
I think line to line budgeting is a good thing and the fairest way. I feel a whole budget is dangerous. Why can’t we be given flexibility whilst having our budget/needs determined line by line? I find it rather patronising to wave the flexibility at us as a way to get us to accept this change. Why can’t we have the flexibility to trade across lines to support our fluctuating needs and what’s most important to us at the time. The thing is when it’s done line by line there’s immediately a visual of what our needs and budget are. A whole budget takes that away. A whole budget also means it can be a way to neglect us and prevent us from a fair appeal. None of this is to help us, they just want to again make cuts and waste a huge amount of $$$ in the meantime with their grand ideas and pretending to be using co-design by placing key disabled people in particular positions. Again, patronising.
George your comments describing Psychosocial participants as an “risky cost”, is disgustingly ableist and ignorant. People in wheelchairs don’t have a monopoly on disability. Most people with psychosocial disabilities don’t have their own chat shows. So maybe your supports should be cut?
Thanks for your feedback Sarah. When did I refer to psychosocial participants as a "risky cost"? I did make a point that psychosocial supports should be available in the mainstream health system and I thought it generated an interesting discussion. Thank you for listening GT
I didn't hear George say that, but I'm not saying it wasn't said, I may have missed it. Are you sure he wasn't referring to ndia assumption. Just makes more sense he'd say something like that. What was the time stamp. I believe George to be an outstanding advocate for pwd, be it a different perspective. I am sure he would gladly either fix this or explain.. I'm sure it can be rectified if he did. ❤
These are such great and informative podcasts for carers. I’m glad to have come across them. 👍
My son tried the public “mainstream” mental health system for 13 years and almost died several times. The NDIS saved him and we couldn’t be more grateful for it.
George, thank you for sharing how traumatising these assessments really are. For pwd who live with complex ptsd psychosocial disabilities, these processes are devastatingly harmful and create complex and high risk barriers to accessing support.
Thank you for your comment and for listening
Thankyou Peter for the acknowledging the great work sm are doing. Hopefully when the research grants go out, sm will be where the researchers go to collect their findings, not SP.
I really hope self managed people won’t be forced to use registered providers, especially if they are smart enough to know how to use the funds and make decisions about who does the work. I’m legally blind but I’m a professional educated person who wants workers who relate to me this way. I used to work in the WA system years ago and found out that they hate intelligent people with high functioning disabilities.
The public and government thinks that all people with disabilities are stupid and too uneducated to hold power and are not taken seriously on the rare occasion that they are involved with big decisions. Some of us are smart, high functioning, and educated. The majority of people don’t have a disability so the election will not matter. The mainstream media doesn’t cover these issues so the won’t go on the election agenda except when it comes to cost savings.
Thanks for watching. Regarding the issue you raise, make sure you have your say . The registration taskforce is open for submissions now
People who have adhd or add or npd or bipolar or Asperger’s etc are smart high functioning with disability just not severe enough or want therapy should be individual choice
@@sportygirlplays yes therapy should be a choice for the individual. I agree that most people with the issues you mentioned are indeed intelligent. What I meant was that most of the clients receiving services from my former employer were violent and or very agreeable towards the caregivers. Management were blaming the workers and didn’t care about their safety or wellbeing. They refused to hold clients accountable for their actions and kick the dangerous ones out. I worked in HR and they hardly accommodated my disability even though I asked for very little. They seemed to like disabilities that simulate the hormones of baby brain after giving birth. I was a professional with lots of office experience and the managers were mostly caseworkers or caregivers without corporate management behaviours. They were not strategic and too emotional about clients during meetings. They were bullies some of the time and treated me very poorly.
Peter is spot on.. they are already implementing it, look at the jobs advertised, tertiary qualified "intake and review officers" to build plans. The 23 jobs within ndia advertised last week shows they've already began implementing these changes prior to finalising town hall tour and gathered feedback.
Thanks for listening and for your insights GT
My first two LACs though Bapcare here in Tas were great. They understood personal connection.
Both left after one year because they were fed up with the NDIS/NDIA
Then a lovely young girl turned up who was completely out of her depth.
I suspect these 'navigators' will be like the planners ..... bullies doing the NDIA bidding
I think line to line budgeting is a good thing and the fairest way. I feel a whole budget is dangerous. Why can’t we be given flexibility whilst having our budget/needs determined line by line? I find it rather patronising to wave the flexibility at us as a way to get us to accept this change. Why can’t we have the flexibility to trade across lines to support our fluctuating needs and what’s most important to us at the time. The thing is when it’s done line by line there’s immediately a visual of what our needs and budget are. A whole budget takes that away. A whole budget also means it can be a way to neglect us and prevent us from a fair appeal. None of this is to help us, they just want to again make cuts and waste a huge amount of $$$ in the meantime with their grand ideas and pretending to be using co-design by placing key disabled people in particular positions. Again, patronising.
George your comments describing Psychosocial participants as an “risky cost”, is disgustingly ableist and ignorant. People in wheelchairs don’t have a monopoly on disability. Most people with psychosocial disabilities don’t have their own chat shows. So maybe your supports should be cut?
Thanks for your feedback Sarah. When did I refer to psychosocial participants as a "risky cost"? I did make a point that psychosocial supports should be available in the mainstream health system and I thought it generated an interesting discussion. Thank you for listening GT
I didn't hear George say that, but I'm not saying it wasn't said, I may have missed it. Are you sure he wasn't referring to ndia assumption. Just makes more sense he'd say something like that. What was the time stamp. I believe George to be an outstanding advocate for pwd, be it a different perspective. I am sure he would gladly either fix this or explain.. I'm sure it can be rectified if he did. ❤