NDIS Mental Health - How Bridges Alliance Can Help You
Holistic support to help individuals live fuller and more connected lives
Mental health disorders can be debilitating. In some cases, it can disrupt a person’s ability to maintain relationships, uphold personal and professional responsibilities, and impact other aspects of day-to-day life.
If you or a loved one is experiencing difficulties managing life with a mental health issue, you may be eligible to get support from the NDIS. Bridges Alliance, as a registered NDIS provider, can offer you assistance in gaining funding and accessing both the support and services to help meet your needs and help you recover.
NDIS support for Mental Health is set up to help individuals:
- Get the support they need
- Take part in the community
- Be more independent
What is the NDIS & How it Helps with Mental Health
Can you get NDIS for Mental Health?
The NDIS is an Australian Government national program that provides funding and support designed to help support Australians with a disability.
This includes people living with a psychosocial disability.
It’s important to note that NDIS support doesn’t fund the treatment of psychosocial disabilities, but these services are designed to offer help in areas where individuals are struggling due to their disabilities.
How do I know if I am eligible for the NDIS?
NDIS eligibility for Mental Health
To apply for NDIS for Mental Health, you or someone acting on your behalf must provide evidence of your mental health affecting your daily life without support; and evidence that these difficulties are like to be permanent.
Under the NDIS, this is called a Psychosocial Disability.
A psychosocial disability can come out from mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc.
Individuals with episodic mental health issues may also be applicable for this criteria as well.
This type of disability can restrict a person’s ability to:
- Communicate, understand others and express your needs.
- Have social interactions, make and keep friends, interact with the community, cope in a healthy way, and behave within limits accepted by others.
- Learn new things, understand and remember information, practise and use new skills.
- Have mobility with your limbs to move around the house and community to do everyday living activities.
- Practice self-care, feeding yourself, grooming, personal hygiene, and looking after your own health care needs.
- Practice self-management to organise your life, make plans and decisions, complete daily tasks, take responsibility for yourself, problem-solve, and look after your finances.
When applying for NDIS for mental health, you must provide evidence that you experience difficulties in at least one area above without support or with lesser functional capacity.
Other criteria for the NDIS include:
- You must also be aged under 65;
- And you must also be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident, or hold a Protected Special Category Visa.
For more information, please read NSW Health’s resource on the NDIS’s mental health eligibility criteria.
You will also find more information on how to apply for NDIS here. As an NDIS service provider, we can also help you in applying.
How NDIS Mental Health funding and services are provided
Like all our NDIS disability support services, this depends on you.
You can access NDIS support in three key ways:
1. Self-Managed (choose and manage where your funding goes to meet your needs)
2. Plan Managed (ask an NDIS-registered plan manager, such as Bridges Alliance, to manage your funding)
3. NDIA Managed (the NDIA directly pays providers on your behalf)
Find out more about how our plan management services support you.
How We Can Help
We can offer assistance in applying for NDIS mental health support.
After being granted approval from the NDIS, Bridges Alliance can provide NDIS services through a plan-managed approach. Creating a plan is always a personalised experience, and we always work with you to tailor your plan to your specific goals and needs.
We can support people with psychosocial disabilities with NDIS services in numerous ways – with everyday tasks or harder goals.
A sample NDIS plan for mental health can look like this:
- Assistance with daily living
This may include support with personal care, meal preparation, or cleaning. This may also fall under ‘Support Independent Living’. - Therapeutic supports
This may include individual or group therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, or trauma-focused therapy. - Social and community participation
This may include support workers to help a person participate in community activities, such as art classes or sports clubs. Like a biking group, arts and crafts group, or clay or painting class. - Home modifications
This may include funding and support to perform modifications to the home to improve safety and accessibility. - NDIS short-term accommodation for mental health
In some cases, individuals may require short-term accommodation to receive the support they need in a safe and supportive environment to manage their mental health condition. This may be included support for your mental health needs during a crisis, when your usual carer is unavailable, or to help you try new things.
Bridges Alliance can assist individuals with finding and accessing short-term accommodation that meets their unique needs.
NDIS plans are reviewed annually, and changes can be made at any time to reflect your changing needs and goals.
Our Services:
- Plan Management
- Supported Independent Living (SIL)
- Respite Services
- Voluntary Out of Home Care
- Support Coordination
- Therapeutic Supports
- Independent Living Options
- Long-Term Accommodation Services
- Home Care Services
- Community Access & Day Programs
- Social and Recreational Activities
About Bridges Alliance
Our leaders, Averil and Mark Straney have over 40 years of industry experience. Through this time, they have helped provide care to vulnerable communities and people with disabilities such as prolonged mental health issues. And together, with our team, we are compassionate, supportive, and dedicated to delivering person-centred professionalism in all our services.
Learn more about our Directors and Supports
Our pricing for support and services delivered is based on the rates advised in the current NDIA support catalogue. About Us | Bridges Alliance
If you’re looking for reliable, caring and experienced NDIS support coordinators who are guaranteed to help you meet your goals, don’t hesitate to contact us.
