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Who we are

HomePlace has been transforming lives since 1989.

We are a registered NDIS provider.

We support people with intellectual and other disabilities to live safely, confidently and independently in places they are proud to call home.

We provide support and services across Adelaide, SA. We are a purposefully small organisation. This is so we can truly know each person we support – their goals, interests, preferences, and support needs — and to expand their life roles, independence, opportunities for learning and joy, building community connections with them.

What we do

We provide support with the aim that they can take their rightful place at the heart of community – living a big, rich life filled with purpose, joy, connections, and opportunities

What we aim to achieve

For each person we support:

Improved skills and learning of new skills
To get out and about in their local and favourite communities
Meaningful roles at home and in their communities
A strong sense of safety and security
Opportunities to meet new people and make friends
Fulfilling work and/or activities

Our Team

The HomePlace workforce is a team of skilled support workers with combined experience that exceeds 1500 years.

We deliberately do not employ Health Professionals, Support Coordinators, or Plan Managers and we do not own any property. Instead, we partner with these specialists to create a person-centred team to enable them to stay as healthy, active, and independent as possible.

What services and supports do we provide?

We support people with disability:

To look after the place they call ‘home’
To do everyday activities, including personal care, cooking, getting ready for work, and daily activities
In the community, including with shopping, appointments, and banking
With transport or travel to where they need to go
To introduce them to new people and to help them make friends
To learn new things, develop life skills, try out new activities
To join social groups or clubs with people who share the same interests

We can provide support:

In a person’s home, in their local community, across Adelaide
Every day of the year
At all times of the day and night
1:1 or 1:2
In small groups, where supports are shared with a small number of other people with disability, who share the same interests and goals

Types of Support

Home and Living

Supported Independent Living (SIL)

For people with higher support needs to build skills in everyday tasks like cooking, cleaning, personal care, budgeting, and running their home, including nighttime sleepover support.

Assistance with Daily Life

For people to build skills in everyday tasks like meal preparation, keeping their home clean and tidy, support with managing money, getting to appointments, personal hygiene, and running their home.

Community Participation

Innovative Community Participation

For people to engage in activities they enjoy, develop meaningful roles in their communities, and create opportunities to meet new people and make friends.

Transport Assistance

For people to get out and about in their local and favourite communities.

Group/Centre Activities

For small groups of people to build skills in their shared areas of interest such as running their own business, sport, health and fitness, music, cooking, shopping, arts and crafts.

Development of Life Skills

For people who are finishing school, learning about the world after school, preparing for work, or enjoying retirement.

We also provide supports to people who have funding from other avenues, such as Return to Work SA.

Why are we called HomePlace?

We help people living with disability to convert the house/unit/apartment they live in, into a place they are proud and happy to call their ‘home’.

In their home, they can decide when they need HomePlace supports. In their place, they can welcome support from other providers too.

In their home, they can choose how they want their rooms, furniture, pictures, and garden to be, and who they welcome into their home.

It is a place where they can be themselves.

The person’s home. Their place. HomePlace.

“I like living here. We are friends.” (Anne Marie).
“She is my friend.” (Julie)

My name is Banjobe and this is my HomePlace.

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My name is Gavin and this is my HomePlace.

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FAQs

HomePlace aims to exceed required standards. We do this by:

Quality support coaches

HomePlace has a detailed supervision, learning and coaching program for every staff member. Our model is unique, and an example of best practice in continuously improving support for people living with disability.

NDIS Audits every 18 months: We have received commendations for best practice.
HomePlace’s Independent Visitor Program: Visits are made by people experienced in the disability sector and who do not work for HomePlace. The purpose is to ensure the person that HomePlace is supporting is not only safe and healthy, but is receiving supports that are geared to their individual goals and building their confidence and skills. We do this to check that they are leading their lives as independently as possible, with supports that align to their service agreement they made with HomePlace.
Internal Service Audit Program: This is where a senior HomePlace staff member conducts audits of a person’s HomePlace supports, paperwork, goal achievement, and home safety.
Only employ and provide support through HomePlace staff who share the HomePlace values of:
- Respect: Regard for the unique identity of the individual.
- Safety: Protection against abuse, violence, neglect and exploitation.
- Trust: Being honest and reliable.
- Enduring Partnership: Building lives of meaning, value and belonging, by working together.

We provide supports every day of the week, and at all times of the day and night. Each person’s HomePlace Senior Coordinator work with them, their family, support network and support coordinators, to understand what supports they need, when they need them, and the NDIS funding they have. A HomePlace roster or ‘schedule of supports’ is designed for and with each person based on their unique picture of goals, interests, work, community activities, support needs and funding.

Safeguarding everyone, especially people living with disability, is at the heart of HomePlace. Our approach includes several unique elements to make sure each person is safe when they receive supports from us.

100% of HomePlace staff have an NDIS clearance
100% of HomePlace staff are vaccinated against COVID-19
Every person that we support has two or more HomePlace staff on their team
Every support is provided by a HomePlace staff member – we do not use ‘agency’ staff

We aim to support each person to build connections in their communities — the more people they get to know and hopefully build friendships with, the more people will look out for their welfare, and the more they can develop new skills, explore new roles, and contribute to their community.

Every staff member has undergone a rigorous induction process to the HomePlace Way of providing supports, plus ongoing training, development and quality support coaching.

Each year (pending their consent), visits will be organised between each person HomePlace supports and our CEO and an Independent Visitor to ‘check-in’ to see how they are, whether they are happy with their HomePlace supports, and how we can be better.

Some people also choose to have safety measures provided by assistive technology, for example: seizure-detection watches and fall-detection mats.

HomePlace places huge importance on exceeding required standards. We have a number of mechanisms to test and make sure we are meeting expectations. These include:

Quality support coaches

HomePlace invests in a detailed supervision, learning and coaching program for every staff member. We believe our model is unique, and an example of best practice in continuously improving support for people living with disability.

NDIS Audits every 18 months: We have received commendations for best practice.
HomePlace’s Independent Visitor Program: Visits are made by people experienced in the disability sector and who do not work for HomePlace. The purpose is to ensure the person that HomePlace is supporting is not only safe and healthy, but is receiving supports that are geared to their individual goals and building their confidence and skills. We do this to check that they are leading their lives as independently as possible, with supports that align to their service agreement they made with HomePlace.
Internal Service Audit Program: This is where a senior HomePlace staff member conducts audits of a person’s HomePlace supports, paperwork, goal achievement, and home safety.
Only employ and provide support through HomePlace staff who share the HomePlace values of:
- Respect: Regard for the unique identity of the individual.
- Safety: Protection against abuse, violence, neglect and exploitation.
- Trust: Being honest and reliable.
- Enduring Partnership: Building lives of meaning, value and belonging, by working together.

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