NDIS - Youth Options

Glenn Tee

Glenn is the NDIS facilitator of the Garden Squad and Living Skills Kitchen for Adelaide Central. His role is a blend of working with mentees in gardening and cooking sessions, working in partnership with stakeholders like the City of Adelaide Horticulture to develop programs and ‘real world’ work experience, and delivering service to the community. He has a passion for helping young people build the skills and resilience to achieve their goals.

Glenn comes to the role with over 30 years experience in the baking, hospitality and horticulture trades and holds a Certificate 4 in Youth Work. His motivation comes from a lifetime of working with young people coaching sports and facilitating youth group programs and energises his work with young people and colleagues.

Nathan Lobo

Nathan is a Youth Options NDIS Mentor. He provides a multitude of services across various programs offered here at Youth Options Inc. These include providing case management, career development support, learning programs, life skills programs, and job search assistance to disengaged and at-risk youth living with a disability.
Programs that Nathan facilitates among others include Drive Me, which supports clients get their driving hours and skills up. Career building utilising Information Technology, ranging from basic computation skills to working with 3D rendering, texturing, 3D printing.

Nathan previously owned a business in Support Work upon graduating from UniSA with a Bachelors of Psychological Science and a Masters in Social Work. This has assisted him in providing a high quality individualised service for each client.

David Evans

David is one of the NDIS mentors within our NDIS team and has worked to support clients in improving their independent living skills, employment skills, community engagement and moving towards independent living. With a double degree in Psychology and Social Science, and over 10 years of working experience in homelessness, Alcohol and other drugs, mental health and disability, David has a wide variety of training and personal experience to support clients in a variety of situations.
While working at Youth Options, David has helped design and run the Dungeon and Dragon program with clients, which has shown significant benefit in providing the participants with peer and group communication skills, mathematics, problem solving, conflict resolution and community engagement. As well as a resilience program that supports clients to identify barriers to their success, and provide the skills and knowledge to support themselves, independently, to overcome these barriers.

Jake Stewart (NDIS Mentor)

Jake is the NDIS coordinator for the Murraylands Region. His role is a blend of liaising with
stakeholders, developing programs, and delivering service to the community. He has a passion for
helping young people build the skills and resilience to navigate their lives. His primary goal is to
further develop an NDIS service for the region that is unique and offers great outcomes for
participants.

Jake holds a degree in Psychology & Sociology and is continuing his education with an in-progress
Counselling certification. He is also a qualified meditation teacher who incorporates principles of
mindfulness into his work with young people and colleagues.

Nate Overbeeke (NDIS Manager)

Nate leads the effective achievement and growth of sustainable Youth Options NDIS Services and is responsible for both overseeing quality delivery of Youth Options’ NDIS Services as well as maintaining strategic relationships with external stakeholders. He uses his understanding of shared value models of partnership and ability to drive high value brand aligned opportunities to ensure the ongoing success of our NDIS services.