9-week Autism Parental Stress Relief Program

The answer is most likely, yes!

The NDIA recognises the importance of training and has a specific line item in the price guide for it. It's called Carer/Parent Training and bills to your Capacity Building - Improved Daily Living (therapy) budget.  

Parent training does NOT need to be mentioned in the plan for you to use this service.  

Most planners don't think to specifically include it in your child's plan.  It's your Choice and Control if you choose to access our help.

The NDIA always refers to these 3 three criteria, if you can answer yes to these you are OK;

1. Is it reasonable and necessary?  We are a mental health improvement program to specifically support you and your autistic child.  The NDIA absolutely deems this as reasonable and necessary.

2. Is it good value for money? You get access to hundreds of hours of training and lifetime access to all our courses and counselling services.  We are extremely good value for money.

3. Does it work towards the participant's goals?  We work towards emotional regulation, behaviour, and mental health improvement goals.  So as long as you have something similar to one of these in your plan you are 100% OK.  You do not need an autism diagnosis to join the program.

We have supported more than 3,000 families with autistic children through this program and almost all of them have fully funded the program through their child's NDIS Plan.  

In a nutshell;

A) As long as you are Plan or Self-Managed (we are not registered so can't bill to NDIA Managed plans)
B) Have funds available in your therapy budget (Capacity Building - Improved Daily Living Section)
C) And a goal in your plan similar to emotional regulation, improved behaviour, or a mental health goal you can absolutely join the program with your child's plan!

Parent training involves equipping parents with knowledge, skills, and strategies to better comprehend and support their autistic child. This kind of intervention goes beyond traditional therapy sessions, empowering parents to take an active role in their child's therapeutic journey.

We know your life is already hectic!  So you don't have to be online at a particular time to do the program.  

You can self-pace the whole thing.  You have lifetime access to the program & can re-enroll in the live program as many times as you like, we run it 7 times a year!

You will get the most out of the course if you can find approximately 2-3 hours per week. 

The course is made up of;

1 x 90 minute(ish) video once a week.  If you can find time to watch this you will be on track.
Daily bite-sized audios (Mon-Fri 10-15 mins each) to put into practice what we teach in the video.
Downloadable PDFs of the key information for the week.

Closed FB Group to ask us questions in whenever you need.  
Fortnightly Group Chat on Zoom - Mon Nights 8:30pm AEST.  Recorded and sent if you can't attend live.

Yes, absolutely!

We encourage both parents to do the program regardless of their living or marital situation and only charge one fee.

Just fill out the enrolment form with one parent's details and when we send you your welcome email let us know you would like a second parent set up.  We just need their name, email, and phone number and we'll set them up with their own access to make their way through the course at their own pace.

If you both want to do the training but would prefer not to be on the same live course, we can set you up to do different programs so you feel safe to share.

You're definitely not too late.

We take enrolments all the way through the first week of the program.  You are definitely not too late.

We get you might have found us late-night Facebook scrolling and the program is about to start or might have just started.  Don't stress, once we receive your enrolment form we can have everything set up for you our end within one business day.  

If you are enrolling using an NDIS plan just fill out our enrolment form ASAP, so we know you want to join us.

If you are self-managed just follow the steps in our email to make the claim in your portal.  Send us a screenshot of the submission receipt and we will get you set up on the course immediately knowing payment is pending.

If you are plan-managed we will just make a quick call to them to check they will process our invoice.  On verbal confirmation, we will set you up immediately knowing we will receive payment through your PM in due course.

We cannot retrospectively bill for a lifetime service

The NDIS does not pay for future-dated services.   However, we are a bit of a unicorn as we offer a lifetime service so can't bill at the end of our services.

Although you are joining a live version of our Autism Parenting Program, because we give you instant and lifetime access to all of our self-paced training and counselling resources, we satisfy the NDIS requirement that the services we are billing for are provided at the time of invoicing.

We have processed more than 3,000 of this exact invoice through the NDIS over the last few years and have spoken about our program with most large plan management companies.  If your PM has an issue, it is usually just a quick call with us, and the invoice is processed.