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.