Garden Squad is a hands-on learning program in a group environment.
Have fun and make friends with others in your Squad as you design and build awesome gardens around the city in Adelaide.
Learn about and develop skills in landscaping, gardening and horticulture.
Explore career pathways and strengthen your independent living skills.
Garden Squad is funded from your NDIS Plan under Core and/or Capacity Building and can be part of your School Leavers Employment Supports (SLES) Package.
Dungeons and Dragons is a cooperative storytelling game that harnesses your imagination and invites you to explore a fantastic world of adventure, where heroes battle monsters, find treasures, and overcome epic quests.
Times: Monday & Wednesday 12:30pm – 5pm (4.5 hours) Cost is $170 per session, per participant
Dungeons and Dragons is a Social Group and requires 5 Participants.
Imagine, Venture, and Explore, Your Possibilities and Potential!
Work, careers, money. It can be difficult to know where to start. Understanding your strengths and what’s out there can assist you get the life you want. Pathfinder is a career exploration program that uses virtual and real world activities to help you plan to get ahead. In the Pathfinder Program you will gain confidence and get started on the life you want.
Take part in virtual and real-world activities to increase your motivation and develop employability skills to build confidence and ability to enter the workforce. It’s not just about any job – being able to choose jobs that are a good fit for you, will help get and keep the right one.
Pathfinder is focused on the first step in the Choose-Get-Keep model – identifying an occupational goal which is achievable, realistic in the current labour market and match to values, interests and aptitudes. Pathfinder is aligned to the Australian Blueprint for Career Development and uses Gamification principles to engage users.
Youth Space offers a diverse range of projects and skill areas that are tailored to the individual needs of each participant. Each participant has an individually negotiated program with attendance usually 1 day per week. For participants requiring individual support to participate, both learning program and individual support categories are required. Participants must be between 14-17 years old.
Youth-E allows for a tailored service including Flexible Learning, Case Management and Mentoring.
Project Examples
Technology – 3D Printing and robotics
Art and Graphic Design
Woodworking and metalwork Projects
Bike Building, maintenance and repair
Price
1 day per week: $820 per school term. Group Based program.
Estimated Term rate (based on a 10 week term where participant attends one day per week for 4.5 hours): $2377.80
Additional cost for an NDIS Mentor based on NDIS Plan Funding
Delivery Location
40 Sturt Street, Adelaide.
The program operates Monday to Thursday from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm during school terms.
Support Category/Registration Group
Core – 0125 – Access to community, social and rec activities
Capacity Building – 0116 – Innovative Community Participation (in some circumstances)
Capacity Building – 0117 – Development of daily living and life skills
A learning program – allowing participants to engage in creative woodwork projects to:
Increase their awareness and understanding of WHS and Workshop safety signs and instructions.
Learn how to safely and effectively use hand and power tools such as: saws, drills, sanders, grinders, hammers, screw drivers, planers, and more!
Learn to read and follow project plans, diagrams and instructions.
Our mentors are trained and experienced in strengthening participant confidence and self-esteem, independent living skills, communications skills and social skills.
Delivery Location and Methodology
Sturt Street Youth Hub, 40 Sturt Street, Adelaide.
This program will be delivered in our workshop.
Support Category/Registration Group
Core – 0125 – participation in community, social and civic activities
Capacity Building – 0116 – innovative community participation
Capacity Building – 0117 – Development of Daily living and life skills
Get Moving is a learning program for NDIS Participants to obtain their Learner’s permit for driving. Get Moving includes activities to learn road rules, undertake tests and support to attend testing centre.
(The goal is to get your L’s – Learner’s permit)
You will work with your NDIS Mentor 3 hours per week for approx. 10 weeks
Your NDIS Mentor will provide Face2Face mentoring in a group environment to hep you get your L’s
This program can be funded under Core Supports or Capacity Building Supports, depending on your available funding
The total cost of this program (depending on your NDIS funding and group size) is approx. $2500.
We may be able to include the Services SA Cost to sit tests and your Learner’s permit.
Please Note:
You may be required to obtain a Treating Doctors Report (TDR) before applying for your Learner’s permit at Services SA.
Youth Space offers case management and flexible learning as a complete package for young people, aged 14-21 years who have disengaged from mainstream schooling.
The Youth Space program offers
Experiential Learning engagement through project participation
Accredited learning through South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) and Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Foundation Skills using BKSB for assessment and literacy and numeracy development
Career Development aligned to the Australian Blueprint for Career Development (ABCD)
Outcome Star (an internationally validated assessment tool) to measure and monitor growth and progression
Case Management
Youth Space provides a trauma informed practice case management model, tailored to the individual’s strengths, skills and pathway needs. The program has a focus on essential core employability skills, including numeracy and literacy.
Case Management services are available in the school holidays however focus on operating Monday to Friday from 9.00 am to 5:00 pm during school terms. As part of their self-directed case plan, students can work toward a meaningful pathway through:
Engaging in vocational skills training
Achieving South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE)
Projects / Skills Development
Youth Space offers a diverse range of projects and skill areas that are tailored to the individual needs of each student. Each student has an individually negotiated program, but attendance is usually 1 to 4 days per week. The learning programs including workshop and computer areas operate Monday to Friday from 10.00 am to 2.30 pm during school terms.
Project examples
Technology – 3D printing, robotics, building and flying drones, Computer Aided Design (CAD) Milling
Art and graphic design
Woodwork projects
Bike building, maintenance and repair
Metal Work and Welding
Youth Options is an Approved Panel of Providers member of the South Australian Governments Department for Education Flexible Learning Options (FLO) enrolment strategy for Case Management Services and Flexible Learning Programs.
Referral
Referral can be made via FLO, NDIS or Fee for Service arrangements.
BizAbility – Think Ability, Then Design Your Business
BizAbility assists people living with disability explore entrepreneurship as a pathway to achieving self-employment using human centred design (HCD) methodology. You will identify an idea for self-employment matched to your abilities and circumstances, test assumptions and create an action plan to achieve self-employment using the 5 core modules of Design Thinking: Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test.
Throughout the program, you will have access to a mentor for individual support and assistance. You will also become part of a community where you can share your experience with others and hear from entrepreneurs with lived disability and business experience.
We see successful participants leave the program with a stronger purpose, awareness of opportunities and increased motivation to achieve self-employment.
Outcomes include:
Increased understanding of self-employment and skills needed
Raised confidence to start their self-employment journey
Available to NDIS Participants:
17 to 65 years old
Want to explore self-employment/business
12 months of learning & mentoring
Approx. 12 weeks (3 hours per week) exploring & learning
Approx. 40 weeks (3 hours per week) business mentoring
Approx. Cost is $10,920
Please contact the BizAbility Team:
Nate Overbeeke on 08 8388 6600
Support Category/Registration Group
Capacity Building:
– Increased Social and Community Participation – Innovative Community Participation
– Development of daily living and life skills (in some circumstances)
Core:
– Access to community, social and rec activities (in some circumstances)
Drive Me is a Driving Experience Mentoring Program to help you get the required 75 hours for your P’s. The goal of this program is to overcome your challenges for getting your P’s, increase opportunities to learn about employment or traineeships, and acquire necessary skills and develop good driving behaviour.
To start the Drive Me Program a minimum of 4 lessons must be completed with a professional driving instructor.
We will provide you with a Trained Driving Mentor (Responsible Supervising Driver) and the use of our modified car
You will participate in a four-hour road safety program, before driving practice commences
To attain the required 75 hours, you will attend 1.5 hours twice per week for one2one mentored driving practice. The time and day is negotiated with you and our NDIS Mentor
Please Note:
The program is approx. 115 to 120+ hours over 12 months – approx. cost $7500
The program includes approx. 60 kilometres per session – approximate total 4500 kilometres – approx. cost $3,825
Total approx. cost for Drive Me – P’s is $11,325
The hours required to achieve the P’s depends on the participant progress and capabilities. (everyone is different)
Final driving test (VORT) must be successfully completed with a professional driving instructor; this cost is not included in Drive Me Program.
This program can be funded under Core Supports or Capacity Building Supports depending on your available NDIS funding
“Work, career, independence and choice. It’s what I want.”
“Knowing how to get it can be tricky”
School Leaver Employment Supports is an early intervention approach for Year 12 school leavers on NDIS to support their transition from school to employment.
These supports are designed to build an NDIS participant’s capacity to meet the access criteria and transition to a Disability Employment Services Provider (DES).
Through our Tomorrow Me SLES Program, we help young people to prepare, look for and gain employment. We provide meaningful, personalised, individualised capacity building activities so young people can achieve their employment goals.
Tomorrow Me starts with you choosing the help you need from our menu of supports:
Pathfinder – career exploration that makes finding your future FUN!
Mentoring to help you find and keep a job
Get Moving – start with your L’s, achieve your P’s
Drive Me – Driving Experience Hours Mentoring, Safe Driver Workshop
Skills Development & Work Experience
Typically, Tomorrow Me is delivered over 48 weeks in a 1 year period or 96 weeks in a 2 year period
Delivery Location and Methodology
Delivery may include a combination of:
Face2Face, Group Environment, Social Group and/or One2One
Face2Face, Individualised & Personalised Service
and/or Via Zoom/TEAMS Online
at Sturt Street Youth Hub, 40 Sturt Street, Adelaide, Murray Bridge and/or other locations.
Support Category/Registration Group
Capacity Building – 0102 – School Leaver Employment Supports (SLES)
The cost of the Tomorrow Me Tailored Package is $474.78 per week.
