What is CAPACITY BUILDING SUPPORTS funding?

What is CAPACITY BUILDING SUPPORTS funding?

Capacity building supports funding is to use towards working on:
  1. Long-term goals
  2. Building independence

Budget support categories in Core:

The funding is flexibly only WITHIN that category. You can't combine funding across each budget or move between these categories.

These budget categories include:
  1. Category 7 - Support Coordination & Recovery Coaching
  2. Category 8 - Improved Living Arrangements
  3. Category 9 - Increased Social & Community Participation
  4. Category 10 - Finding & Keeping a Job
  5. Category 11 - Improved Relationships/Relationships
  6. Category 12 - Improved Health & Wellbeing
  7. Category 13 - Improved Learning
  8. Category 14 - Improved Life Choices
  9. Category 15 - Improved Daily Living
As of November 2023, the NDIS released added the following categories under the CAPACITY BUILDING budget:
    1. Category 20 (NEW) - Behaviour Supports

    Examples of supports funded:

    Here is a brief overview of the types of supports that may be funded under each CORE category:
    Support Category
    What can you use these funds for?
    Support Coordination
    Support Coordination
    Psychosocial recovery coaching
    Improved Living Arrangements
    Support in finding an appropriate and safe place to live
    Increased Social & Community Participation
    1:1 skill development & training in social & community groups
    Community groups & classes, camps & vacation activities, in-person or online social groups i.e. Minecraft, PEERS, D&D 
    Finding & Keeping a Job
    Employment-related support, training & assessment that help you find and keep a job, such as School Level Employment Support (SLES) or Disability Employment Support (DES)
    Improved Relationships
    Therapy supports to develop positive behaviours and build skills to learn how to interact with others:
    Specialist Behavioural Intervention
    Behaviour management plan & training
    1:1 skill development or mentoring
    Improved Health & Wellbeing
    Dietitian
    Exercise Physiologist
    Personal training
    Improved Learning
    Assistance for transition through school and further education
    Improved Life Choices
    NDIS Plan Management Support - Paying invoices, making claims and auditing
    Improved Daily Living
    Allied Health Therapy - Occupational therapy, Speech therapy & Physiotherapy
    Psychology
    Counselling
    Dietitian (over 7 years)
    Exercise Physiologist (over 7 years)
    Early Childhood Therapy supports
    Play, Art, Sand or Animal therapy
    1:1 mentoring & skill development

    What can & can't be funded under each category?

    For more details information on what supports can and can't be funded under each specific support category - click the links below:
    1. What is Support Coordination & Recovery coaching funding?
    2. What is Improved Living Arrangements funding?
    3. What is Increased Social & Community Participation funding?
    4. What is Finding & Keeping a Job funding?
    5. What is Relationships funding?
    6. What is Behaviour Supports funding?
    7. What is Improved Health & Wellbeing funding?
    8. What is Improved Learning funding?
    9. What is Improved Life Choices funding?
    10. What is Improved Daily Living funding?


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