Behaviour Collaborations

• A Behaviour Practitioner will work with you to define the issues/concerns, we will then create a plan that address the issues/concerns to reduce any impactful behaviour that is reducing the quality of lite for the participant.
• We develop safety plans to reduce any immediate risk to the participant and the team.
• We can help connect you to services.
• We can help you to develop an understanding of the NDIS and how to use funding in appropriate ways.

• An interim behaviour support plan is only developed if a participant is having restrictive practices. We will work closely with you in the first few weeks to determine if the restrictive practice can be stopped or if it needs to be approved.
• An interim behaviour support plan will incorporate proactive strategies to reduce the need to use a restrictive practice, and we will develop a safety plan for use when responding to significant behaviours of harm.
• Timeframe: An Interim must be submitted to the NDIS within 30 days from the point of contact.

• Every participant who received Behaviour Support funding is entitled to a plan. It is the policy of the NDIA that a Behaviour Practitioner must create a positive behaviour support plan as a part of their services. It is our obligation to ensure all participants engaged with our service are provided with a plan.
• The NDIS will also require that a practitioner let the NDIS know if there are problematic behaviours and teams and participants are at risk of harm.
• If there are no behaviours, we may just write a letter to let the NDIS know that a participant has been assessed as not needing behaviour support.
• Timeframe: Generally, we have 6 months to complete PBSP from point of contact or after an Interim has been submitted.
• The plan takes time to gather information from the participant, their families, other allied health professionals, schools, support workers and any other key stakeholders who are apart of the participants life. During this time the practitioner will continue to work on a comprehensive plan updating and added strategies as they go.

• A Functional Behaviour Assessment assesses a participant's domains of life in line with their diagnosis and makes recommendations.
• An FBA is generally needed when PBS funding is low, and further support is needed.
• Timeframe: Rule of thumb generally means an FBA is on a as and when needed basis.

Depending on what support is needed, we can continue to engage with you and your participant to provide ongoing behavioural support. This includes (but is not limited to) stakeholder engagement, training, and telehealth sessions.

• PBS funding is generally reviewed every 12 months, and therefore most participants will have us for a minimum timeframe of 12 months.
• However, subject to funding, our services can continue after this process. We have several participants that we have been supporting since 2021.

• We use a simple invoice processing system to save on admin time and reduce overheads, which means we do not have to charge extortionate amounts.
• Your invoices will note down if intervention or training work has been actioned.
• Intervention is inclusive of observations, email/phone correspondence, visits (and travel), case noting, behavioural monitoring, research, and report writing (see work stages below for further information).
• Training is inclusive of research, training deck preparation, training delivery, and recap training.

• No, your Behaviour Practitioner will work with you in very different ways. We are generally 95% hermits, and 5% extraverts! Our priority is reducing problematic behaviours and the use of restrictive practices and therefore, all attention is focused on how this can be achieved.
• A Behaviour Practitioner is known to work intensely with the participant's extended network in the early days of engagement.
• We may call and see you/your teams several times in the first month (but not weekly).
• However, once we gather a significant amount of information, we can go quiet for a short time to write the behaviour support plan, which will be worked on over a period of months. Making changes as we gather information and or behaviours increase or decrease.

• This is rare, but it can happen. Firstly, try to address your concerns with your Practitioner as they may not be aware of the issues, and are there first and foremost to work with you to achieve your goals and reduce behaviours of concern.
• If you need to escalate further, please contact our operations manager Sam Murray on sam@behaviourcollaborations.com to discuss other options. There is never a one-person-fits-all, so we understand that you may not find your practitioner to be the right fit and will work with you to ensure you find the right person.