Unlike many providers of home and living for NDIS participants, Hearth secures a long-term home as the final step of the set-up process of the Hearth Home Solution.
Ensuring compatibility of housemates with NDIS Supported Independent Living (SIL) funding and families comes first.
Once the families and their loved ones have been matched, they then get to work together with Hearth to secure the participants’ long-term home.
A number of important factors combine to identify the best home.
This includes families working with participant’s Occupational Therapists to ensure selection of home is informed by key needs.
Often, it is a normal 4-bedroom home with general accessibility. Our solution caters for NDIS participants who have been approved for SIL and do not need a fully accessible home (if they did need a fully accessible home, they would require Specialist Disability Accommodation – SDA).
Other key factors include some cost considerations which inform which suburbs are considered for purchase options.
Importantly, the homes Hearth will purchase are always in the community and not housing estates.
We find that sourcing homes in the outer Eastern and Northern suburbs generally means in metro Melbourne that people are able to live within 30 or so minutes from their families.
In summary, the Hearth Home Solution focus on participant matching first and then sourcing the homes is a very different experience from what people are used to in the disability sector.
The more common approach in the sector is one where participants are matched to a vacant existing room in a home.
Our Solution is the result of years of learning from families and participants about what mattered most.
