Meet Hayley
When Hayley received her first NDIS plan, she felt like she wasn't able to do much with it because she was unsure what she could get out of it. Second time round, and with the support of Plan Partners, she understood her options better. Feeling braver, she was able to ask for more funding.
Hayley has had both plan management and support coordination with Plan Partners for 3 years.
"Plan Partners have been able to help me go to a more elite school," she says. "They organised my lessons for me, I don't have to stress about any of that.
Plan Partners just make everything easy. They are the only provider I've tried for support and I don't think I'm ever going to try anyone else. I love Plan Partners, they're awesome."
Plan Partners also helped Hayley get a personal fitness trainer funded by the NDIS. Through resistance training and boxing, Hayley was able to build the strength and agility to use a walking frame for increased mobility.
"Music for me is a way of escaping, a way of coping with having a disability and for people to see me in a more confident light. I feel like heaps of things are possible with being able to do music."
Meet Hayley
Show Transcript
<p><strong>[00:00:05]</strong> <em>Speaker 1 (Interviewer):</em> How has the NDIS helped you?</p>
<p><strong>[00:00:07]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> The NDIS has funded this chair here, so that means I can lift it into my car by myself.</p>
<p><strong>[00:00:12]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> Yesterday I got my license. We ended up getting some modifications to my car.</p>
<p><strong>[00:00:18]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> Little things like getting a strap to attach to the boot, so when the boot’s up I can grab it to pull it back down.</p>
<p><strong>[00:00:24]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> We’ve just finally got a ramp put in at the back of the house and redone the bathroom so I can now use the family bathroom, which is really nice and pretty essential.</p>
<p><strong>[00:00:37]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> Now I feel like I’m set up at home and I’ve got my chair, I’m sort of like, good to go.</p>
<p><strong>[00:00:44]</strong> <em>Speaker 1 (Interviewer):</em> How have Plan Partners helped you?</p>
<p><strong>[00:00:47]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> Plan Partners has been able to take on a lot of the financial stuff, so I don’t have to do all the invoices and sort all that out.</p>
<p><strong>[00:00:57]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> I still do some of it, but really I’m just doing the icing on the top, and they do all the yucky stuff that I don’t like to do.</p>
<p><strong>[00:01:03]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> That means I can do more of the fun stuff like my sport and wheelchair racing, which I really enjoy, and focus on the things I really want to do.</p>
<p><strong>[00:01:12]</strong> <em>Speaker 1 (Interviewer):</em> What are your hopes for the future?</p>
<p><strong>[00:01:15]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> Just being able to drive independently, you know, like going to visit a friend’s house.</p>
<p><strong>[00:01:20]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> That’s something that’s simple for an able-bodied person to do, but for me every little thing gets kind of complicated.</p>
<p><strong>[00:01:23]</strong> <em>Speaker 2 (Participant):</em> So yeah, I think that would be really fun.</p>
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