Did you know that your goals dictate what you can spend your NDIS funding on?
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This week on Kinora, we share a few simple hacks to set strong goals, to do more with your plan and achieve better outcomes.
A lot of participants don’t know that their goals dictate what they can spend their NDIS funding on. That’s why it’s important to think about your goals carefully when setting them. Let’s imagine you only had one goal, for example:
I want to learn to cook spaghetti.
Learning to cook spaghetti may be something you want to do to increase your capacity and remain independent. But, if that is your only NDIS goal, then in theory, that would be the only thing you could spend your NDIS funding on.
However, if your goal was, I want to increase my capacity to remain independent and safe in my own home, the supports you may need could look more like:
• Support to attend to personal care needs;
• Assistance to learn budgeting, so you can shop independently and manage your finances;
• Assistance to organise your time and daily activities; and
• Support to learn to cook healthy meals, and use household appliances effectively and safely.
Some of these supports may be funded through your NDIS plan (i.e. support workers) and some may be mainstream supports (i.e. attending a local association to learn healthy cooking skills). But, if your goals are well constructed, you will have more flexibility with what you can spend your funding on.
In short, your goals are a critical part of your plan. They help the NDIA determine where funding should be allocated for you, and importantly, well thought-out goals provide you with more flexibility when it comes to how you spend your funding.
In short, your goals are a critical part of your plan. They help the NDIA determine where funding should be allocated for you, and importantly, well thought-out goals provide you with more flexibility when it comes to how you spend your funding.
Effective goal setting can take practice.
Spend some time thinking about your goals before your NDIS planning meeting and review. It’s a good idea to go to these meetings with a clear idea of your goals and the strategies you want to use to achieve them, to get better outcomes. And don’t forget, you can change your goals whenever you want.
Having trouble wording your goals or matching supports to them?
Head to Kinora and post your questions or even your goals up in the chat, and our coaches can work with you to see which supports would qualify as reasonable and necessary and which ones potentially wouldn’t. Log into Kinora
Write goals to have greater SCOPE to maximise funding flexibility.
Most people lean on the SMART goals approach to write goals, but one of our Kinora Coaches suggests a different perspective with great practical tips so that you can get more from your NDIS budget. Tips for Setting Goals
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