NDISP Homes

The First SDA Properties in Bundaberg Started Construction Today

After an intensive few months of design, the first 3 SDA Properties of ours in Bundaberg started today. At this stage we have 7  properties starting construction this month and more next month.

These SDA Properties were Full Before Construction Started

We are building these different properties specifically for participants and so they are already full.  We have worked with some great participants, support co-ordinators and support workers to get here.

More Participants Wanted for Stage 2 Developments

At this stage it looks like we will be in a full time development program in Bundaberg for the next 3 years or so.

We love getting people out of inappropriate accommodation and into places they are happy to call home.

If you or your loved one is looking to do the same and you think they may be SDA eligible then please feel free to get in contact.

Thanks to Integrated Disability Support Services

A special thank you goes to Kahli and the team from IDSS for the original invite to come to Bundaberg and their continued support and introductions to others since.  They are truly selfless and so focused on the best outcome for participants, the ones they work with or otherwise.

Transition Delayed to 1 December 2020

Western Australia announced yesterday that they were delaying the transition to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.

Reason Given is for Dealing with COVID-19.  3 Active Cases in whole of WA

WA has zero cases in hospitals or aged care and has 3 Active Cases in the entire state. This makes no sense.  The transition date has been known for a long time and providers should have been ready.

All of the quality providers we have met in WA were ready to transition and already had great systems and compliance in place prior.  All the delay does is extend the life of those providers who have poor systems and compliance and have little chance of passing an NDIS QSC Audit.

This is Bad for Some Participants.

The compliance obligations of the NDIS QSC are enormous compared to the former NDIA and state based regimes.  We know of participants living in SDA housing where the owners of the houses have been made the NDIS SDA Provider yet the ones we spoke to were not even aware of the policies or procedures they had used to apply for registration, let alone about how to comply with them.  There are trades and services people going into SDA properties with no safety checks, no inductions, no training, nothing.

Great Providers were Ready and have been Compliant for Years

As above, all of the great providers were ready and had outstanding compliance and quality control systems in place for a long time prior.  Unless we are missing something it just looks like those providers with poor compliance systems have been given an extra 6 months.  We hope it doesn’t result in any harm coming to participants

  Fitting Out Sunshine Coast MTA in 2 Days

We found out on Wednesday afternoon that someone was stuck in hospital and needed Medium Term Accommodation (MTA) asap.  So we rounded up a crew and put together a whole house load of furniture.

All Hands on Deck

Jon and Darryl enlisted some of the Yellow Card team but rolled up the sleeves and got stuck in.

We are very much looking forward to moving someone in in the morning.

This is What it is All About

Helping people is why we are here.  Whilst this property was going to become MTA, we were going to sort this over the coming weeks.  But with someone needing to get out of hospital we just couldn’t wait.  It’s a privilege to be in a position to help people.

We also have SDA and more MTA coming on board

3 Bed Plus OOA High Physical Support Share House

It was lovely to see another 3 Bedroom High Physical Support SDA property completed and handed over from the builder to us today in Aura on QLD’s Sunshine Coast.

A Whole Week of Inspections

Jon, Darryl and Peter will be flatout next week as we have back to back inspections.

SDA House in Nambour – Internal Painting is Finished

You can see from the photos below the painter has just finished at one of our Choice 3 SDA houses in Nambour.

SDA Kitchens & Bedroom Kitchenettes

The kitchens and the kitchenettes are also sitting in place (the flooring has to go underneath them so the cupboards touching the floor are not attached yet.

1200mm Doors, 1500mm Hallways

The photos really let you start to see the size of the properties.  We are really excited to see years of planning taking shape and  getting closer to tenants moving in.

Many of our builders return to work tomorrow after a well earned break. Hopefully they are well rested it’s a big year.

January

Either already under construction or breaking ground this month we have almost 30 SDA properties in

Cairns

Sunshine Coast

Toowoomba

February

Caboolture

Cairns

Cannon Hill

Ipswich

Logan

Mission Beach

Morningside

Nundah

Sunshine Coast

Wellington Point

Wyong

March Onwards

All of the above plus

Albany (WA)

Busselton

Cleveland

Geraldton

Gippsland

Latrobe

Melbourne

Mornington Pennisula

Newcastle

Northern Rivers

Perth

Redland Bay

Southport

Sydney

More Areas Later in Year

We probably missed an area or 2 in the lists above and we are sure we will be asked to help people out of inappropriate places and into ones they are happy to call home elsewhere around the country also.

Need an SDA Property

If you or a loved one are in need of an SDA property then we have the funding and resources to help provide just about anywhere in the country, all you need to do is let us know.