At Hearth, we understand the complex nature of behaviour. Hearth Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners support people to achieve their goals and live the lives they choose while promoting independence with a focus on freedom from unnecessary restrictions. We believe that every person has the right to communicate their needs, participate in meaningful activities and have choice and control in their life.
Sometimes a person living with a disability responds to their environment or communicates their needs by using challenging behaviours. These behaviours can lead to frustration, fractured relationships and the use of reactive practices by others in an attempt to reduce the challenging behaviours. At Hearth, we provide professional individualised support to people who use behaviours that challenge. We use the positive behaviour support framework to build an understanding of why challenging behaviours occur. We do this based on an assessment:
We aimto reduce behaviours of concern to improve the quality of life through increasing positive and joyful experiences.
We understand the importance and prioritise working with the participants and their support network. An important part of our approach is training and coaching the participant, their key workers and family members. This ensures participants achieve the best possible positive long-term outcomes.
We now have expanded capacity in our Hearth Behaviour Support (PBS) team.
You will find more information in the flyer below.
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These are behaviours that are unexpected and may lead to others around the person to feel frustrated, distressed or fearful. This can look like the person damaging things around them, behaving in ways that are viewed by others as socially inappropriate, hurting themselves or others.
We believe that all behaviours have a function and by working directly with the person, their family and their other supports we can find ways to assist the person to reduce their behaviours of concern and increase their quality of life.
By using ethical approaches that focus on human rights and community inclusion we aim to reduce or eliminate the need for restrictive practices wherever possible.
Restrictive practices are actions and environments that stop a person from exercising their rights to move about or behave in specific ways. Restrictive practices may take the form of seclusion, the use of medication, using a physical restraint or restricting a person’s free access to their environment including items or activities.
We believe that when the use of a restrictive practice is required, the restrictive practice must be the least restrictive response possible in the circumstances. It must reduce the risk of harm to the person or others and should be used for shortest possible time to ensure safety.
We will work closely with the people around to you to support them to reduce the use of restrictive practices in your life.
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is a therapy approach for a person living with a disability and behaviours of concern. The approach involves working closely with the person with a disability, and their supports, to understand what maintains an individual’s challenging behaviours and provides strategies to reduce and/or eliminate those behaviours.
We believe that it is a human right to be able to express choices and preferences without the need to use behaviours that challenge self and others.
A person is more likely to achieve the best outcomes when a consistent approach has been developed and communicated. The consistent approach is outlined in a positive behaviour support plan. It is a plan that trusted people and supports have had input into and becomes a central resource filled with proactive strategies and instructions to keep you and everyone safe.
On occasions, where there is a restrictive practice in place, the plan will be sent to the relevant states and territories Office of the Senior Practitioner for authorisation and the NDIS commission for monitoring on the use of the restrictive practice.
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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of lands, seas, and waters throughout Australia, and pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
Hearth is committed to providing the highest standard of individualised support for Aboriginal people with a disability and Hearth recognises that the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are grounded in continued connection to culture, country, language, and community.
