Wesley Mission Annual Report 2020 - Flipbook - Page 15
Disability support
Empowering choice, achieving goals
Our disability support services
One in five Australians have disability.
Wesley Mission offers people with disability
a wide range of services to improve their
wellbeing and independence.
We’re a registered provider under the National
Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and our
support is shaped by the goals of the people
we work with, such as finding a job, trying a
new hobby, studying or moving out of home.
Social inclusion, preparation
and facilitation programs
Support the client and family
inside their home
Support the client and family
outside their home
Our tailored support can help with
the development of skills-based
learning, independence in accessing
the community, engaging in social
events, and enjoying a variety of
recreational activities. Each person
is unique and the support they will
receive is too.
Services include:
• Specialist Disability
Accommodation (SDA)
• Supported Independent Living (SIL)
• home care
• home modifications.
Services include:
• life skills
• respite
• behaviour support
• employment support.
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In 19/20, Wesley Disability Services provided support for
81
supported
employees
Wesley Packaging
The David Morgan Centre has been offering
employment opportunities for people with
disability since 1972. Today, the centre offers
sustainable and competitive packaging services,
is ISO 9001 accredited and operates licensed
therapeutic goods administration clean rooms.
David Morgan Centre also boasts Wesley
Mission’s longest serving employees, the
longest having celebrated 46 years of
employment in April 2020.
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people in short-term
accommodation
Short-term accommodation
and respite
We all need a break, particularly in a challenging
year like 2020. This goal-oriented support might
include short-term accommodation, overnight
stays, hourly support or in-home respite.
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participants to further
develop life skills
Wesley LifeSkills
This program provides support to build daily
living skills, recreational programs such as art,
music, cooking, swimming, dance and
preparedness for work including computer skills,
numeracy, literacy and vocational education.
Wesley LifeSkills centres offer one-on-one
support and group activities to develop
confidence, friendships and independence.
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people in disability
accommodation
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people to coordinate
NDIS services
Community support
Services include:
• other service providers
• sporting community
• education facilities
• community supports,
financial and legal, advocacy
• open employment
• transport
• religious groups
• family and friends.
Launching
Wesley Intensive
Therapeutic Care in 20/21
Wesley Disability
Accommodation
NDIS support
coordination
Wesley Intensive
Therapeutic Care
Wesley Mission offers a range of shared
independent living options that give greater
choice and control for people with disability.
Wesley Woodward in Smithfield provides younger
people with disability who have high support
needs an alternative to living in aged care.
To get the most out of their approved NDIS plan,
a support coordinator helps each person to
realise their individual goals and objectives.
Depending on a person’s needs a coordinator
can help to build understanding and support
decision making.
We believe people with disability should have
every opportunity to live meaningful lives.
That’s why we’ve built two specialised homes
for young people, aged 12 to 18 in foster care,
who live with complex disabilities.
Group homes are situated in 15 suburbs across
Sydney, with our Glenmore Park house having
undergone a complete renovation in early 2020 to
extend and improve facilities to better meet their
long-term residents’ needs.
A partnership between Wesley Dalmar and
Wesley Disability Services, Wesley Intensive
Therapeutic Care, Significant Disabilities will
give eight young people a place to call home.
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