online webinar

Funding Periods & Plan Budgets: Communicating with Participants

Conversations about plan budgets between providers and participants can be tricky. This webinar shows you how to talk about funding periods and spending in ways that build trust and keep budgets on track.

Registration

Flexible rescheduling

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Why take this course?

With funding periods now embedded in NDIS plans and the NDIA less willing to “top up” exhausted budgets, providers face a new challenge: delivering supports without knowing if a participant’s funds will last the full plan period. Yet many participants are understandably reluctant to share their full plan details due to autonomy, past trauma or mistrust of providers.

This webinar tackles that tension head-on. Drawing on both a provider lens (Rob) and a participant perspective (Todd), it explores how to have open, ethical and practical conversations about spending. You’ll learn strategies for working collaboratively with participants to monitor budgets without undermining choice, so supports remain sustainable across the life of the plan.


What you’ll gain

  • A clear understanding of how funding periods change budget management, and why open conversations with participants matter

  • Practical strategies to build trust and discuss budgets without undermining choice or control

  • Language and framing tips for having ethical, trauma-informed conversations about spending

  • Approaches to prevent overspending or underspending while maintaining sustainable supports across the plan period

  • Insight from both a provider lens and a participant perspective on what makes these discussions work


Who’s it for?

Anyone working with participant plan budgets regularly.

What’s included?

  • 90-minute webinar with live Q&A via Zoom

  • PDF copy of the slides

  • Webinar recording

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Facilitators

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Todd Winther

Todd is a political nerd with an academic background in political leadership, party politics, and disability policy who has taught these subjects at multiple universities. He is also an NDIS Participant who has a severe form of Cerebral Palsy. Todd combines these two seemingly different interests to bring a wide variety of experiences to Team DSC. His writing has been published in academic journals, The Conversation and the ABC. He has also worked for NGOs in the Home and Living sector, working directly with other individual participants to help fill funding gaps. Todd has a deep passion for political history and sorting through electoral redistributions (He really does! Ask his wife). Todd also spends his free time reading multiple books simultaneously, following the mighty Port Adelaide Power, and assessing the plausibility of plots on too many TV teen dramas

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Rob Woolley

Our very own Woolly Mammoth, pulls up last in the alphabetical rankings but always gets a place on the DSC podium for combining curiosity with smarts. He knows so much about the NDIS it is scary. Rob lives a personal commitment to sharing his knowledge with an endgame of people with disability in control. Combining lived experience of the early childhood intervention pathway with professional experience of the realities of provider life - he has consistently shown the inability to hold down a real job. His roles in the disability sector have covered direct support work, project management, business development, consulting, ILC-funded advocacy roles and owner-operator of a registered and then unregistered provider (but the thing he is best at is being a very present dad). If you want a consultant or trainer in your corner you will be looking high and low to do better than our Rob.