NDIS GOALS & YOU PLANNING FOR SUCCESS
Written by Robert Rees, Executive Leader Support Services
We suggest that the easiest way for you to think about goals is to think about what’s important to you. Use the list below to think about all the aspects of your life and what’s really important to you:
Goals are things you want to achieve with support from the NDIS and other supports and services. There are generally 3 to 4 goals in your plan over different periods of time, you could have short term, (generally the life of the current plan) medium term and long term goals.
• Communication • Improving relationships • Health and well being • Confidence building • Recreation activities • Socialising • Work • Volunteering • Improving relationships • Daily living skills • Accessing public transport • Living arrangements • Increasing independence • Increasing mobility
An example of a short term goal could be:
To be supported with my self-care and household activities so that I can become more independent.
A long term goal example could be:
I would like to live independently in a house of my choosing.
This allows you to reach smaller goals as you go so that you are ready to achieve your long term goal in the future. Goals should be outcome based, an example of this would be to focus on an outcome rather than the supports required to achieve the outcome. For example, if you like to spend time at the library your goal may be to access the greater community and have access to activities that you enjoy. Goals need to be broad enough that you can make changes to services or supports throughout the year so that you can use different types of services to help achieve the same goal.
Once you have identified what’s important to you think about how you link this to goals and what supports you would need to help you achieve these. The guide below will assist you with this.
What’s important to you?
• I like going to the library every week. • I would like to have more friends. • I want to improve how I communicate.
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