Support your clients to achieve their housing goals

As an OT, you play a critical role in facilitating great outcomes for people with disability. You might also see first-hand the impact that unsuitable housing can have on a person’s wellbeing – as well as on the delivery of effective supports to that person. 

Below is a collection of information and resources that may assist you in your work supporting people with disability to achieve better housing outcomes.

Searching for suitable housing

This Housing Hub website is a great place for your clients to start their housing search. The resources below can help your client understand their options.

Looking For Somewhere To Live

This guide explains how to access and make the most of NDIS funding to look for housing.

Learn more

Specialist Disability Accommodation

This page contains a lot of information about SDA, including links to explanatory videos and fact sheets.

Learn more

Mainstream Housing Options

Learn about the different types of mainstream housing (any housing that is not SDA).

Learn more

Common questions from OTs about SDA

Presenting evidence for good NDIS outcomes

Allied Health Housing Assessments

This guide assists support coordinators and allied health professionals to collaborate on housing plans for NDIS participants.

Learn more

Developing a Participants Housing Statement

If you have a client who lives in residential aged care (RAC) or is at risk of admission to RAC, they may wish to test their eligibility for SDA.

Learn more

How To Write A Housing Plan

This guide is created to help support coordinators write housing plans for NDIS participants who want to test their eligibility for SDA funding.

Learn more

Writing reports and completing forms

Getting the Language Right

A health practitioners’ guide to writing reports, letters, forms and assessments for the NDIS​.

Learn more

How to fill out the NDIS Access Request Form

If you are working in a residential aged care facility, or a health service, you might be supporting a person with disability to submit this NDIS access request.

Learn more

10 Steps to Excellent NDIS Therapy Reports

VALID's guide to NDIS therapist reports for allied health professionals​.

Learn more

Housing Hub Services

Home and Living Service

The Housing Hub’s Home and Living Service team offers a range of different services to support participants who have home and living goals.

Over the years, the Housing Hub team has supported more than 750 people to find homes with new Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA). The team have also worked closely with young people living in aged care, working across complex systems to find housing solutions that support the unique needs of each individual. 

The Housing Hub has a commitment to engage with Housing Seekers in order to understand their personal experiences as well as their ongoing needs and preferences in relation to housing.

NDIS Housing Advice Line

The Housing Hub have a free NDIS Housing Advice Line that operates Monday - Friday 10am - 3pm (AEDT).

The line has been established to support you and your supporters to:

  • Understand NDIS home and living options
  • Access information about home and living supports
  • Receive information on the process to apply for NDIS home and living supports.

When you call the NDIS Housing Advice Line you will speak to an NDIS housing specialist who will be able to understand your specific needs and connect you with further information or resources as required. 

Call our free NDIS Housing Advice Line Today.

Attend a free event

To find out about the range of housing options that are available to the people you support, register to attend one of our free events.

These events are for people with disability, families and support workers.

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Support your clients to achieve their housing goals

As an OT, you play a critical role in facilitating great outcomes for people with disability. You might also see first-hand the impact that unsuitable housing can have on a person’s wellbeing – as well as on the delivery of effective supports to that person. 

Below is a collection of information and resources that may assist you in your work supporting people with disability to achieve better housing outcomes.

Searching for suitable housing

This Housing Hub website is a great place for your clients to start their housing search. The resources below can help your client understand their options.

Looking For Somewhere To Live

This guide explains how to access and make the most of NDIS funding to look for housing.

Learn more

Specialist Disability Accommodation

This page contains a lot of information about SDA, including links to explanatory videos and fact sheets.

Learn more

Mainstream Housing Options

Learn about the different types of mainstream housing (any housing that is not SDA).

Learn more

Common questions from OTs about SDA

Presenting evidence for good NDIS outcomes

Allied Health Housing Assessments

This guide assists support coordinators and allied health professionals to collaborate on housing plans for NDIS participants.

Learn more

Developing a Participants Housing Statement

If you have a client who lives in residential aged care (RAC) or is at risk of admission to RAC, they may wish to test their eligibility for SDA.

Learn more

How To Write A Housing Plan

This guide is created to help support coordinators write housing plans for NDIS participants who want to test their eligibility for SDA funding.

Learn more

Writing reports and completing forms

Getting the Language Right

A health practitioners’ guide to writing reports, letters, forms and assessments for the NDIS​.

Learn more

How to fill out the NDIS Access Request Form

If you are working in a residential aged care facility, or a health service, you might be supporting a person with disability to submit this NDIS access request.

Learn more

10 Steps to Excellent NDIS Therapy Reports

VALID's guide to NDIS therapist reports for allied health professionals​.

Learn more

Housing Hub Services

Home and Living Service

The Housing Hub’s Home and Living Service team offers a range of different services to support participants who have home and living goals.

Over the years, the Housing Hub team has supported more than 750 people to find homes with new Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA). The team have also worked closely with young people living in aged care, working across complex systems to find housing solutions that support the unique needs of each individual. 

The Housing Hub has a commitment to engage with Housing Seekers in order to understand their personal experiences as well as their ongoing needs and preferences in relation to housing.

NDIS Housing Advice Line

The Housing Hub have a free NDIS Housing Advice Line that operates Monday - Friday 10am - 3pm (AEDT).

The line has been established to support you and your supporters to:

  • Understand NDIS home and living options
  • Access information about home and living supports
  • Receive information on the process to apply for NDIS home and living supports.

When you call the NDIS Housing Advice Line you will speak to an NDIS housing specialist who will be able to understand your specific needs and connect you with further information or resources as required. 

Call our free NDIS Housing Advice Line Today.

Attend a free event

To find out about the range of housing options that are available to the people you support, register to attend one of our free events.

These events are for people with disability, families and support workers.

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