What is Community Access Support?

Unfortunately, in traditional health rehabilitation, community access is not typically goal selected and many people are still limited to segregated recreation and leisure choices, even post comprehensive rehabilitation. Typically, when community access tasks are completed, it often involves large groups of people to generic settings, such as shopping malls or parks. Quite often, very little support is offered for individual engagement or therapy rehabilitation for community access.

Tasks that could be classified as out and about could be:

• Supported shopping
• Medical appointments
• Sporting and recreational events
• Social activities
  Visiting or making new friends/ travel and transport and building confidence and social skills Various forms of day-to-day assistance can be classified as Community Participation for people seeking support from Fortis Care. For NDIS participants, funding for assistance in daily living within core supports may fall in this category. Community Participation is one of eight areas of disability support that support workers can provide on Fortis Care.