Desirable outcomes
People with disabilities are able to:
- Choose their personal assistant
- Develop, along with providers, their own individual support plans
- Access training that enables them to manage their personal assistance needs
CBR and disabled people’s organizations:
- Work together to ensure that personal assistance options of an appropriate quality and standard are available
Within the community:
- Support is provided to families who provide personal assistance on an informal basis
- Training is available for both informal and formal personal assistants
- Community-based personal assistance options are supported and provided
- Mechanisms are in place to respond to crisis situations, including:
- Community respite care, and
- Emergency care options designed to prevent people with disabilities from being placed in institutional care
