Do you want more choice and control in
your life?
Individualised Funding
Easy Read
2015
What is Individualised Funding?
Individualised Funding is a way of
paying for disability support.
With Individualised Funding you
can:
•
make your own support plan
•
choose who gives you support
•
employ your own support staff
•
manage your support staff.
You will have more freedom to
choose what you want to do.
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With Individualised Funding you
will need to manage some new
things.
CCS Disability Action can help
you work out:
• what to manage
• how to manage it.
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CCS Disability Action can help
make sure:
• your Individualised Funding is
working well for you
• you are in charge of your life
• you can set goals to make your
dreams happen
• you live your life the way you
want to.
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What CCS Disability
Action can offer
Looking at what choices
you can make
CCS Disability Action can help
you to plan the life you want.
CCS Disability Action can do this
by:
• asking you about your dreams
• setting goals and planning with
you
• using Individualised Funding to
help make your dreams happen.
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Community Connections
CCS Disability Action can help
you to:
• get to know other people in your
community
• find things that you like to do
• get to know people who like the
same things you do.
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Advocacy
Advocacy at CCS Disability
Action is about:
•
supporting you or your family
to speak up
•
giving you support when you
are getting services from
another service or
organisation.
This might mean going to a meeting
with you or working with someone
else so they understand what you
want.
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Support with staff
CCS Disability Action can help
you to:
• find good staff to support you
• employ good staff to support you
• be a good boss of your staff.
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The paper work
CCS Disability Action can help
you:
• work out how much money you
can spend on things
• pay your support staff
• write reports
• manage your Individualised
Funding.
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About CCS
CCS Disability Action is a
disability service provider.
We provide support and advocacy
for disabled people in New
Zealand.
We work together with:
• disabled people
• families/ wh�nau.
We work to make sure people have
choice and control in their lives.
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CCS Disability Action makes sure
the support you get works for you.
CCS Disability Action works in
communities.
We work to get rid of the things that
can stop disabled people from
having good lives.
We also work hard to make sure
rules made by local and national
government protect the rights of all
disabled people.
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Get in touch
Get in touch with CCS Disability
Action if you think you or your
family need more information or
support with Individualised
Funding
Phone:
0800 227 200 (and ask for the
Information Service)
or
04 801 0854
Email:
[email protected]
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Website:
www.ccsDisabilityAction.org.nz
Facebook:
www.Facebook.com/ccsDisabilityAction
Twitter:
www.Twitter.com/ccsDisabilityA
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This has been translated into Easy Read in consultation with
People First New Zealand Inc. Ngā Tāngata Tuatahi
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