#14-Support Coordination Roundtable #2 with Devon Milton-Hutchinson,Christy Brown and Trevor Keen

Series 1 Strikes again With Episode 11 of the 'Journey to Conscious healthcare'

This episode is once again a round table podcast. On this episode we get to a rural perspective of support coordination and  the NDIS.

This episode features:

 Devon Milton-Hutchinson who is a Team Leader of Disability Services Team at Uniting Country SA 

Along with Christy Brown an experienced Support Coordinator at The Growing Space 

This episode is titled 

“Support Coordination #2 Roundtable with Devon Milton-Hutchinson, Christy Brown & Trevor Keen discussing the Do's & Dont's of Support Coordination”

Video can be found here : https://youtu.be/g07Gfxb8WDY

Today we discuss: 

- The challenges that rural Healthcare providers and participants face 

- Accessibility of services for individuals working/living in rural communities 

- Gaps within the NDIS 

- Possible changes to systems to improve NDIS accessibility

- If we could change one thing about the NDIS what we would change 

-How we can improve capacity in rural areas 

- Support  for parents of NDIS participants  

- The Labor Party's autism strategy for schools  

- Improvements in technology e.g. 4wd wheel chairs , waterproof Cochlea Implant covers , Car hoist to enable self loading of electric wheelchair

- What some of the biggest needs are for rural participants are

- Group education for NDIS participants e.g. Budgeting skills , cooking classes, independent living training

- Advice for rural other Support Coordinators 

- The importance of creation and collaboration between other providers/Service Coordinators 

Thought provoking questions and quotes: 

Special mentions: 

- Peter Malinauskas (premier of Adelaide) 

-Tim (CHCSA) 

-Sam Paya (The Growing space) 

-Aaron Byrne (NDIA) 

Where to connect with Christy and Devon

UCSA

https://www.ucsa.org.au/ 

https://www.facebook.com/unitingcountrySA/

TGS

 https://www.thegrowingspace.com.au/