Support Collective

12/11/2025

We want to hear from you!

Have you or someone you support experienced a reduction in Support Coordination funding?

We’re collecting real examples from across Australia to show how these changes are affecting people with disability, families, and providers.

Your input will help strengthen our advocacy for fair and sustainable NDIS funding.

Please take a few minutes to share your experience using the link below:
🔗https://forms.office.com/r/Q6mZv17Wwi

Every response counts and every story helps. Please share this post to help us reach more voices.

29/10/2025

There's still time to have your say on the Government review of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992. The government want to make sure it is working to protect people with disability from discrimination.

They recently extended public consultation to now close on Friday 14 November 2025.

You can find the Issues Paper including Easy Read and Auslan versions at: https://www.ag.gov.au/rights-and-protections/human-rights-and-anti-discrimination/australias-anti-discrimination-law/review-disability-discrimination-act

28/10/2025

💛 We missed our own birthday last week, but that feels pretty on brand for a team that’s always putting others first!

🎉 Support Collective turned 5!

Five years of standing beside people, learning from our participants, and growing a team that genuinely cares.

Thank you to everyone who’s been part of our story so far. Here’s to the next chapter! 💛

03/10/2025

We talk a lot about “independence” in disability services.

It’s a word that rolls off the tongue like it belongs to everyone. But too often, when it comes to people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, “independence” gets redefined to mean “what we allow.”

You can live here - but only if we say yes.
You can choose this - but only from the options we approve.
You can go there - but only if someone drives you.

That’s not independence. That’s managed compliance.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth. Real independence is messy. It means mistakes, risks, even failures. It means someone with a developmental disability has the same right to make a bad decision, or to be imperfect. Just like everyone else.

If you want to support people, stop bubble-wrapping lives. Start making space for risk, for growth, for the dignity of trying.

Because control disguised as “care” is not kindness, it’s captivity.
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03/10/2025

Support Collective is a proud Member of Disability Intermediaries Australia

When you see the DIA Member logo, it means more than just membership.

It’s a mark of commitment to:
✔️ Sector standards
✔️ Best practice
✔️ Supporting quality outcomes for participants

Our members proudly display their Member or Associate DIA logo's on their websites, email signatures and communications — showing that they stand with the peak body for Support Coordination and Plan Management.

Look for the DIA logo. It’s the sign of a provider who puts quality first. If you are a DIA member and would like a copy of your member logo, reach out to: membership@intermediaries.org.au

25/09/2025

🚨 Final 24 hours.
This is our last chance to show the government that Support Coordination matters.

Every single signature counts.
Please don’t leave it for someone else — your action today could save services tomorrow.

👉 Sign Petition EN7619 now:
🔗 https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7619

24/09/2025

The time to act is now: https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7619

Without enough signatures, the petition to protect Support Coordination will lapse without consideration. This is an incredibly unique opportunity to make sure the voices of Support Coordinators, providers, participants, and families are heard at the federal level.

⭐️ Thank you to those who have shared these posts
⭐️ We applaud those who have emailed out the petition links to their Participants and families
⭐️ We are grateful to all who have requested the support of their provider networks to get behind us

Together, let’s push this over the line before midnight Friday

24/09/2025

People with disability deserve better than being left without help because the system is underfunded.

Support Coordinators are the backbone of the NDIS.
We stand beside people when times are hardest.
Now, we’re asking you to stand with us.

⏳ 2 days left to add your name to Petition EN7619:
🔗 https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7619

23/09/2025

The NDIS is built on partnerships.
Support Coordinators, providers, families, and government all play a role.

But right now, that partnership is breaking.
If support coordinators can’t survive, participant outcomes suffer.

It’s time for government to step up.
✔ Fair rates
✔ Independent review
✔ Sustainable funding

⏳ Just 3 days left to sign Petition EN7619:
🔗 https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7619

22/09/2025

Imagine navigating the NDIS without a Support Coordinator.

Who finds the right providers?

Who advocates when funding runs out?

Who helps when housing or safety is at risk?

This is the reality if good providers can’t stay in the sector.
Support Coordination isn’t optional — it’s essential.

⏳ 4 days left to sign Petition EN7619:
🔗 https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7619

21/09/2025

MYTH: “Support Coordinators are just admin.”
TRUTH: We are problem-solvers, crisis managers, advocates, and connectors who make the NDIS work for people.

When we disappear, people fall through the cracks.
That’s why Petition EN7619 matters.

👉 Add your signature before 24 Sept:
🔗 https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7619