Domestic Services

Domestic Support Services to take care of the little things, so you can focus on what’s important

We, along with the kind of empathy, support and understanding that can only come from lived experience.

We provide a variety of Domestic Support services to assist our disabled clients and their families to undertake day-to-day household tasks, to help them reduce the stressors in their lives and meet the challenges of everyday life. These services are designed to assist people of all ages and levels of ability to increase or maintain their independence, by helping them to complete regular tasks and activities of daily living and to master valuable life skills.

Access to Domestic Support services is generally available to anyone with an NDIS plan or funding and is typically funded by the core supports budget of a person’s NDIS plan. However, while most NDIS participants can request access to Domestic Support services and receive essential assistance with performing daily household chores, the level of funding available to each person will vary depending upon the terms of their NDIS plan.

“One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value” – John Rohn

 

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At Support to Grow, we’re an all-inclusive bunch of grapes and we want to make sure that everyone gets the help and support they need to live the life they want. We hate the thought of someone not being able to access a service they need because they don’t have NDIS funding, so if you, your little snow pea, or your differently-abled adult loved one need support or assistance or you’d like to access our programs or services, but you don’t have an NDIS plan or other funding, reach out to us. We’re committed to providing everyone with the practical support they need to meet the challenges of everyday life, so we offer competitive rates for the services and supports we provide.

Real life skills to empower you to live your best, most rewarding life

While we love caring for your little mung bean, Support to Grow exists to provide support to any person who has additional needs – young or old.

Our amazing disability support workers are carefully chosen to make a positive difference in your everyday life. We aim to allocate a support worker who matches your needs and preferences, so you feel comfortable and empowered to set (and smash) your goals and supported to grow.

“Trees don’t grow even, they don’t grow straight just however it makes them happy.” – Bob Ross

While all our clients are welcome to access our Domestic Services – regardless of whether they have an NDIS plan or funding, or they are self-funding their access to domestic services – they tend to be targeted more towards meeting the needs of adult clients.

Our support workers can provide the individualised, practical daily assistance and support you need to undertake routine household tasks and learn valuable life skills, enabling you to live more independently while giving you more time to do more of the things that make you happy and pursue the things that make you, “you”.

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Domestic Services for adults

Our goal is to help everyone to live a purposeful, fulfilling life. We never want anyone to feel dis-empowered or “useless” in any way whatsoever – quite the opposite, in fact! We want to empower you or your disabled adult loved one to be as independent as possible, so we encourage, teach, and assist you to do as much as you can for yourself.

At the same time, we’re here to take some of the load from you, to ensure your home is safe, clean, and well-maintained, so you have more time to do the things you enjoy without the worry and burden of trying to do everything yourself.

Depending on your needs, wants, and personal goals, our disability support staff can provide you with regular or occasional domestic support and assistance. We can either attend to basic household chores for you or can guide or teach you how to perform the required tasks yourself, to build your confidence, capabilities, and independence.

If you are an eligible NDIS participant who has a goal related to home and living supports that can’t be met through informal, mainstream, community or related supports, you are encouraged to apply to the NDIS for Home and Living Supports. The NDIS will assess your application, identify appropriate supports that may help you to achieve those goals, and decide whether to provide you with funding for home and living supports.

Food and meal preparation

  • Teaching clients how to prepare ingredients and cook meals
  • Assisting clients to prepare their ingredients and cook their own meals, or supervising as they do
  • Preparing meals for clients accessing domestic services

Household chores

These include, but aren’t limited to:

  • Washing up and/or packing and unpacking the dishwasher
  • Dusting and cleaning
  • Mopping
  • Vacuuming
  • Putting groceries away
  • Changing bed linen
  • Decluttering and organising your home and cupboards
  • Helping you to sort and dispose of household recycling
  • Emptying indoor garbage bins

Laundry chores

Assisting clients to:

  • Wash clothing, bedding, towels, etc.
  • Hang out and/or bring in laundry
  • Load and unload items from a clothes dryer
  • Fold items and put them away
  • Iron items and put them away

Animal care

This includes basic assistance to help you to care for your animal, such as taking your dog for a walk or helping you to have your dog bathed and groomed.

Outdoor maintenance

Light outdoor cleaning, and simple home exterior and yard maintenance tasks, to keep your home’s exterior environment clean, safe, and looking its best. These chores may include (but aren’t limited to):

  • Putting wheelie bins out for collection
  • Lawn mowing
  • Gardening
  • Cleaning and general maintenance of outdoor areas, such as patios, verandas, and paths. This may include tasks such as:
    • cleaning outdoor furniture
    • weeding and sweeping paths
    • helping to dispose of hard rubbish – for example, helping you to move hard rubbish to the front of your home, ready for kerbside collection, or assisting you to arrange for your hard rubbish to be taken to the local waste management facility.
  • Gutter cleaning

Domestic Support for children

Support to Grow is all about providing nurturing care and reliable, practical support to families and children with additional needs. We want to help disabled children with alternative physical and psychological needs to build their confidence and learn indispensable new life skills.

Our team of fully-qualified disability support workers are passionate about providing you with practical assistance, so that you are better able to meet your little lima bean’s physical needs, and improve your and your child’s quality of life.

We can teach your disabled child or teenager valuable life skills to help them learn, grow, and confidently face life’s challenges. From teaching them how to tie their shoelaces, tidy their room and make their bed, or make themselves a sandwich, to helping them learn how to use a dishwasher, microwave, washing machine or clothes dryer.

Supports to grow your little lima bean’s skillset and boost their independence

Our Domestic Services for children are more focussed on skill-building and providing parents with some much-needed down time. In addition to any number of other learning and development activities, our awesome support workers can:

  • Teach your child or teenager how to complete basic household chores and help them to complete those chores. Examples include helping them to:
    • wash dishes
    • pack the dishwasher
    • tidy their room
    • make their bed
    • sweep, mop or vacuum the floor
    • learn how to take care of the outside of their home and perform yard maintenance – teaching them how to use a broom, start a lawn mower or mow a lawn.
  • Help your child or teenager to pursue and develop their talents and interests – this could involve a wide variety of things, including:
    • cooking with them
    • helping them to start a compost heap or worm farm
    • gardening with them – such as, helping them to start and tend to a veggie patch,

 

If you would like to find out more about our domestic services, and how we may be able to lighten your load, reach out to us. We’d love to hear from you and have a chat about your needs.