4Mile is a community access venture/centre which hosts many groups, sub contractors, professionals and clinicians as well as programs tailored to disengaged youth, personal development, programs building life skills and improving relationships as well as our NDIS participants.
NDIS
Programs are hosted by 4Mile, but not limited to the centre as they have a focus on capacity building and social and community engagement as well as building relationships. We work majority of the time 1:1 with our participants depending what our participants want, needs, and goals are.
NOTE
I am not a registered NDIS provider.
I am not a therapist or allied health professional.
I am a registered QLD teacher Prep-year 12.
Under the latest NDIS changes (3rd Oct, 2024) Horse activities are NOT NDIS CLAIMABLE (if you would like to join the Pony Club Centre it is privately funded or possibly through our linked charity if funds are available).
I DO NOT partake in equine therapy or animal therapy programs for NDIS participants. (If NDIS participants require our HHH program it will be funded privately or possibly through our linked charity if funds are available).
The Confidence through Competence Program focuses on allowing participants to take part in skills-based learning while assisting the development of, and increasing, a participant’s skills and/or capacity for independence and community participation. The program develops awareness of body language & energy projection, teaching participants emotional regulation and communication skills in a fun and safe environment through a multiple of different scenarios, tasks and projects. The program focuses on the cognitive, physical and emotional benefits of the participant through building confidence in daily life skills. The program is designed to mentor and build relationships and trust, in self, and others while building an array of hands on and everyday life skills for independence. Our program builds competence through doing and through our close mentoring, nurturing guidance to build confidence by having a go. We work with the participant's interests, NDIS goals and how they arrive on the day to individualise and tailor the tasks, projects and challenges for them to gain the best outcome from the lesson each visit.
I believe the codes we best qualify for are;
Capacity Building –
Improved Daily Living
Increased social and community participation Innovative Community Participation
Increased Social and Community Participation Life Transition Planning
Increased Social and Community Participation Skills Development and Training
Core-
Group and Centre Based Activities
The program is designed to mentor and build relationships and trust in self and others. As a result of the program, many of the participants are empowered to re-engage back into education, workforce, society, etc. as well as transition through the different life stages thus transforming their lives, and the lives of others in their direct environment. It is an incredibly simple, yet profoundly effective, program focusing on Mind, body and soul and building confidence through peer support and mentorship to develop skills and is popular for the participants who are not progressing with indoor therapies.
A brief description of what we focus on is as follows:
Our Programs allow;
1. Mobility
2. Communication
3. Social interaction
4. Self-management
5. Learning
6. Life skills
7. Building relationships
Our programs can support some people with cognitive, physical, emotional and social wellbeing including:
Cognitive benefits:
- Attention span
- Concentration
- Motor planning
- Tactile awareness
- Sensory integration
- Fine and gross motor skills
- Muscle tone
- Strength
- Endurance
- Posture
- Balance
- Range of motion
- Coordination
- Self esteem
- Self confidence
- Self reliance
- Improved judgement
- Building relationships
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Cerebral palsy
- Down syndrome
- Spina bifida
- Movement dysfunction
- Developmental delay
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visual impairment
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- ADD/ADHD.
In summary:
We are NOT delivering anything on the NDIS Excluded list, we deliver a program on or off site depending on the participants interests, needs and wants and community events. 4Mile farm hosts the programs for the benefit of the secluded, private and quiet location for the participants to be.
Where to from here:
In the event where we can continue running the sessions for our NDIS participant, we will require confirmation from a plan manager first, that they are happy to honour an appropriate Core or Capacity Building line item to cover the ongoing sessions. As part of the final approval process to access this program, we will seek confirmation from the Participant’s plan manager and the approved line item for invoices for the participant.
Nicky Dobson
[email protected]
Ph: 0403291770