Community Care Services
Community Care Services
West Arnhem Regional Council provides Community Care programs within the Kakadu, Gunbalanya, Warruwi and Minjilang communities. The programs include care, maintenance and social support services, and are all subsidised by funding from the Commonwealth and Northern Territory Governments.
Our teams provide quality care and support to clients and their carers to meet their personal needs, while remaining in their community and homelands. Our Community Care team have a holistic approach of respecting culture, providing suitable staff for individual services and most importantly, providing safe and high quality care.
Our Services
Aged Care Services
The Community Care program delivers both Home Care Packages (HCP) and Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) to assist clients to lead quality lives and remain living in their own homes.
Home Care Packages (HCP): HCP ranging from L1 to L4 packages – consumer directed care
Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP): CHSP services – indigenous participants 50 years of age and over. Pricing and Services currently under review.
Disability Services
West Arnhem Regional Council are registered with National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) as:
- Registered NDIS Provider
- Registered NDIS Remote Connectors
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS):
The NDIS is for eligible Australians who were either born with or acquire a permanent and significant disability.
NDIS provides funded plans to eligible people with disability to achieve their goals which may include gaining more time with family and friends, greater independence, access to new skills, jobs, or volunteering in their community, and an improved quality of life.
The NDIS connects people with a disability to services in their community.
Remote Community Connector (RCC):
Remote Community Connectors are community-based NDIA representatives that support the culturally appropriate delivery of the NDIS in remote and very remote communities.
They recognise that people with disability in remote communities including First Nations people, may need additional support to access the NDIS, build their NDIS plan and use their funded supports.
Remote Community Connectors are part of a large network across remote communities.
How can they help me?
Remote Community Connectors can provide support and guidance about:
- What is the NDIS and how to join
- How to identify your current support and what else you may need
- How to develop a NDIS plan and how to use it
- Questions you may have about the NDIS.
Services we provide within these programs are:
- Limited personal care
- Meals on wheels
- Individual support
- Transport
- Centre-based activities
- Community engagement and outings
- Cultural activities
- Laundry services
- Domestic services (limited)
- Garden maintenance