Daily Personal and Self-Care Activities
Our community supports team will support you in your own home or shared accommodation with your day to day self-care activities as directed by you to maximise your independence.
Our key services include:
- Support with self-care activities to include support with household tasks like cleaning, meal planning and preparation.
- Assistance to manage life admin tasks such as planning for future appointments and tasks.
- Assistance and prompting with personal care tasks to include showering and dressing.
- Transport to get where you need to go be it to a doctor's appointment, work or social outing.
Community Access and Participation
We provide assistance for you to get involved in activities of your choice in your local community. The supports can help you to take part individually or in a group depending on what your needs and goals are.
Our community support services include:
- assistance to explore, connect and participate in recreational and leisure activities.
- Support to maintain relationships and connections with family, friends and local community.
- Shopping assistance and bill payments.
- Attending GP and medical appointments.
Capacity Building Supports
Improved Living Arrangements
At Chona Care we understand that having access to appropriate and stable accommodation and community supports is key to maintaining your wellbeing. Working in partnership with you, our staff will support you with some of the following tasks:
- Completing NSW housing application forms or for private rentals
- Support to maintain rental ledger.
- Assistance to maintain tenancy obligations to include housing inspections and managing hoarding and squalor issues.
- Advocating and communicating with NSW housing and landlords on your behalf as needed.
Increased social and community Participation
We will engage in collaborative working with you, your family, allied health and clinical team to support with skill building and development in some of these areas:
- making friends and building safe social connections in the community.
- Developing skills to promote future independence with tasks like shopping, attending appointments and paying bills.
- Researching, connecting and engaging in community supports and social activities.
Finding and keeping a job
Working in partnership with you our support staff will support you to:
- Connect with employment agencies.
- Assist to follow up on applications and job offers.
- Assist to gather and submit required evidence to include, identification, qualifications and work screening.
- Support to attend work and with maintaining employment.
Social skills development
Our staff will support you to develop social skills individually or in a group setting to enable you to participate and engage safely in social and communal activities. Community supports offered include the following:
- Supported social outings to include eating out in a restaurant.
- Support to attend and participate in social groups.
- Staff assistance to practice and implement support plans and recommendations from your OT, Psychologist or clinical team.
Supported Independent Living- SIL
Chona Care provides personalised assistance with daily tasks in shared living arrangements, usually 24/7, to help each person live as independently as possible. Support is provided by staff who are experienced in working in mental health. Our staff use a person-centred approach to understand and help you plan your recovery journey, build your independence, and reach your goals.
Supports available in our SIL homes include:
- A place to call home
- Safe environment with skilled and trained staff to meet your needs.
- 24/7 support services to include active overnight and/or sleepover support.
- Support with self-care routines such as prompting and assisting with showering and dressing.
- A person-centred recovery approach
- Support with household tasks such as meal planning and preparation, laundry and shopping.
- Medication supervision, administration and support.
- Participation in community and social activities.
Short Term Accommodation- STA
Short Term Accommodation, including respite, is support when you need to live out of home for a short period away from your usual home for up to 14 days. We will support you in developing a personalised support plan to meet your goals, and these are some of the reasons you can access STA:
- Carer respite to strengthen a cares ability to continue in their caring role
- Planned or crisis circumstances when a carer has been hospitalised, or your usual support is unavailable.
- If you are waiting for your community supports to be set up and or for home modifications
- To receive capacity building and or independent living supports
Medium Term Accommodation-MTA
We provide MTA in shared residential accommodation, typically for up to 90 days. Our MTA offers a safe place for NDIS participants to stay during transitional periods to assist with reintegrating into home and community living. Our recovery-focused Residential staff can support you in planning your next move into more permanent accommodation, support your psychosocial recovery goals, and provide opportunities to develop your capabilities and skills for future independence. Some of the supports we offer include the following:
- Referral and connection to other services as needed.
- Support to break down barriers to accessing services.
- Finding a local GP and assistance to attend medical appointments.
- Assistance with housing applications and maintaining tenancy.
- Connecting with your local community.
- Support to regain confidence and build resilience in a safe environment.
- Capacity building and skills development.