Good Directions | Company
Good Directions
Phone: +61 1800 123 405
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25.01.2022 Excited to have our (second) Third Party Verification finalised for National Disability Service Standards. 100% met.
24.01.2022 Recent post: You are running a business - a 'not for profit' one. I recommend a free ABN and claiming back all GST. If you set up an incorporated entity and have an associated self-run charity, you allow for multiple sources of income to all be spent and recorded together - copayments, donations, grants, disability support funds, employment income, investment income, inheritance, low interest loans, and so on. It really is not as hard as you might think - IMO. Just engage the right expertise - the savings you make on Provider fees and surcharges will more than cover the proper advice.
17.01.2022 Good Directions is based in Sydney. We have meeting rooms in Top Ryde, Penrith and West Pennant Hills - but prefer a café somewhere near you. Peter
14.01.2022 The biggest disability service in Australia/world is comprised of families. The Hireups & Better Carings are not disability services but contract hire companies masquerading as disability service providers. To be a Disability Service Provider you need to assist with personal planning and development, you need to understand & promote accommodation options, you need to take responsibility for outcomes, work closely & assist with NDIS Reviews, navigate the difficult areas of t...he Portal - and perhaps they could charge a bit less than 25% admin fee for a near zero cost tinder equivalent. My view is they are a flash in the pan. The first couple of times before coroners/commissions of enquiry and the like will be too much of a challenge. A service model that supports families - esp with high needs (SIL, SDA, blended families and contentious CALD cultural challenges), and adds professionalism to the actual largest disability service provider - without leaving them unsupported in a complex and fluid environment, struggling not to reinvent wheels and being pressured into non-peer reviewed therapies: that’s a future worth getting excited about. See more
14.01.2022 These are the clusters that Good Directions is registered to provide NDIS services for. Accommodation/Tenancy, Assist Access/Maintain Employ, Assist-Integrate School/Ed, Assist-Life Stage Transition. Assist-Personal Activities, Assist-Travel/Transport, Daily Tasks/Shared Living, Development-Life Skills, Household Tasks, Participate Community, Coordination of Supports, Plan Management, Training-Travel Independence, SDA Accommodation
13.01.2022 The NDIS rollout was announced today. For Sydney - North Sydney, South Western & Western Sydney 1 July 2016, rest 1 July 2017. See http://www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/our-sites/nsw#roll2
13.01.2022 Very proud and grateful to have such a supportive Advisory Board. Taken at Strategic Planning morning 2016. Prof Patricia O'Brien, Fred (& Tania) Carollo, Sarah Nadjek (not in photo), Steve Holihan, Janesse Taylor-Saar, Dr Ray Murray (visiting).
12.01.2022 We are recruiting for a new Children's House Coordinator and I thought you might like to read some questions we were going to ask prospective applicants to answer - along with their CV. Share your thoughts on the following: 1. What steps would you take as house coordinator to ensure the boys experience at the house is safe? Up to 30 words 2. What would you do to promote a fun experience for the boys while they are in MHO care? Up to 30 words... 3. What would you expect to contribute to the boy’s personal plans? Up to 50 words 4. Give an example of a situation that showed your ability to manage staff? Up to 50 words 5. What are some ways that people with autism enrich society? Up to 100 words 6. What teaching style is most effective with people with autism? Up to 100 words 7. How could you get a person with autism to do something they didn’t want to do? Up to 50 words Please pass this along to anyone you think might be interested. Advert is on http://www.carecareers.com.au//44636-children-s-disability
11.01.2022 Good Directions has just been notified that its first SDA eligible dwelling has been enrolled in the Scheme. This means that those clients can now draw down legacy SDA funds - all the way back to the beginning of their First Plan. Good Directions has unparalleled service offerings around SDA for NSW & QLD clients with SIL. The service model we promote - as with everything - is 'client-owned' housing.
11.01.2022 Many clients find it easier to manage blended family arrangements and pooled funding using a very light touch Service Provider like Good Directions. It adds a air of professionalism and allows people to focus on the needs of the person they are supporting.
10.01.2022 A month of questions to ask Service Providers Ask potential SP's whether they would they allow you to. 14. put a big sign in the dining room 'We all only get one life"... 13. support an individual to start and operate a home based business in a shared home 12. allocate a part of your accommodation to a mainstream person such as a University student, ageing grandparent or foreign exchange student 11. set up a client-owned charity to raise charitable donations that go directly into the person's bank account 10. use co-payments from siblings & family to supplement lifestyle such as living closer to home, personalised equipment and room furnishings 9. ensure your budget is unaffected if a workers compensation event happens in one of their unrelated group homes or service programs ... 8. 100% own the capital gain of any property your package has funded 7. choose the colour of your motor vehicle 6. provide the occasional home cooked meal 5. select your own therapy staff and pursue unconventional treatment options 4. have staff provide support at your own home and the shared home for consistency 3. have selected staff work designated shifts 2. take staff on overseas holidays 1. pay individual staff members extra to reflect loyalty, longevity and personal preference Good Directions answer is......... yes
06.01.2022 The NDIS Special Disability Accommodation proposal has huge potential. Good Directions model opens the opportunity for clients with shared living & SDA in their NDIS support package to own their own home using this initiative. Good Directions is registered as an SDA Provider. This will enable clients to configure the arrangement according to whatever suits their circumstances. One approach wd be for the PWD to both design and own it, in proportion to how much they contribut...ed to the purchase price. This might be inheritance, donations, even a mortgage if we can find the right broker. The SDA payments wd go to the PWD except for builders maintenance and scheme admin costs. It cd be individual or shared depending on funding. Good Directions model allocates the bulk of the SP overheads recovery back to the person meaning that clients have a significant amount of funding they can spend outside the clusters. They could choose to add this to the SDA payment and afford a better suburb/house. See more
03.01.2022 Good Directions has started a new Facebook group called "NDIS find-an-enterprise". It's designed to promote enterprises that might suit even people with the most severe disabilities.
01.01.2022 There are many legitimate options but the basic structure I believe works best is one that keeps all your record keeping in a defined entity and allows you the freedom to employ people and engage in commercial contracts - without fear of having the rest of your life/assets subject to opportunistic litigation. Having an ABN and separate entity allows you to receive income from multiple sources and, because it is all spent on the person's supports, it can remain a not-for-prof...it, which I find makes it much easier to get insurance. If you register the ABN (which is free) for GST you can claim back 10% of all your purchases - including contracted staff. At risk of portraying a one-size-suits-all approach I will give two examples that suit the circumstances of the people involved. One is an incorporated association comprising three sets of parents of teenagers with autism. The boys have ADHC funding. It has an ABN, own bank account, a mainstream bookkeeper, buys its own insurance, employs it own staff and signs it own lease. The parents own and run the service. Due to the scale of the funding and longterm needs of the boys we set up a parent-owned charity (to make copymts tax deductible) and use the association for all sorts of related transactions. Another example is a person who has ABI from a stroke and is FACS funded. She uses the ABN and company that she ran her business out of before the stroke (we changed one clause in the constitution to make it a NFP). She employs carers in her home and pays all her other support costs. She uses Xero and has a mainstream accountant provide support. Both these have Good Directions as a SP but only in the role as a mentor, consultant, mediator, advisor etc. When the NDIS comes they expect to practically self-manage but use Good Directions in the same way. The NDIS funds will be recorded as just one of the streams of income they receive. So rather than self-manage in a way that isolates them and involves them partly reinventing the wheel, they are planning to effectively self manage but with Good Directions as their designated service provider. See more
