NDIS Capacity Building Funds
If you want to learn new skills that may help you pursue your goals, the NDIS Capacity Building Funds can help. These funds are separate from your core supports budget and cannot be moved from one support category to another. The capacity-building budget enables you to become more independent by allowing you to purchase supports that fall within the capacity-building categories.
- Health and Well Being – exercise and sport participation.
- Home Living – support in maintaining the ability to live at home or help to obtain the right accommodation.
- Lifelong Learning – assistance with education opportunities.
- Employment – employment opportunities.
- Social and Community Participation – recreation in the community support.
Capacity Building
Here at Ask Community Support Services we firmly believe that in spite of our differences we all have the capacity to learn new skills and develop. Our main aim is to provide you with the opportunities and choices that will promote an active life, a level of independence and a feeling of having control. We will work with you to explore the opportunities available as part of their NDIS package and will assist you to make an informed decision by providing enough information.
We will assist you in your journey, but you will be in the driver seat and will be making your own choices and take control of how you want to move forward on your pace.
Increased Social and Community Participation
Increased Social and Community Participation (Support Category 9) is a funded support category that you may find in your NDIS plan, under Capacity Building Supports.
This category of funding can be used to pay for art classes, sports coaching and similar activities that build skills and independence.
It can be used to pay for camps, classes and vacation activities that have capacity-building components. These may include assistance to establish volunteer arrangements in the community, mentoring, peer support or individual skill development.
All supports funded under this item need to be determined as reasonable and necessary given the participant’s plan goals.
Examples provided by the NDIS of support that can be funded include:
- Universal recreational activities: A limited number of lessons could be funded to enable a participant to try out an activity and test their capability and interest in pursuing this activity further – such as horse riding, art, dance or singing classes
- Funding to attend a “camp” or groups that build a person’s relationship skills and offer a range of activities and opportunities to explore wider interests.
- Other items or adjustments such as customised tools required because of the person’s disability, could also be funded. An example of this is if you wanted to play all abilities golf and needed to buy an adapted golf club to play. Or you wanted to do a drumming class and needed to buy an adapted glove to allow you to grip the drumsticks.
What is Life Skills Training & Development
Ask Community Support Services can help you work on goals to develop your independence, confidence and everyday life skills so that you can make the most of your life.
We want to help you live as autonomously as possible through the growth of skills such as problem-solving, communication, social, daily activities, critical thinking and more.
Work with us to learn how to face life’s challenges through Life Skills Training and Development.
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