Disability & NDIS-Connected Support

Disability & NDIS-Connected Support

The Human Flourishing Practice™ supports children and young people with disability, their families, schools, providers and wider support networks. The work focuses on the conditions that strengthen participation, belonging, connection, learning and future opportunity.

How Dr Carol can help

Parent and carer consultation

School–family–provider planning support

Participation, inclusion and transition planning

Human Flourishing Profiles™ and professional reports

Six-Month Flourishing Plans™

Coordinated planning meetings

Staff training and practice-development consultation

Organisational implementation partnerships

Scope of service

The Human Flourishing Practice™ provides consultation, capacity-building, family support and organisational practice-development services. Services are tailored to individual and organisational circumstances and are delivered within Dr Carol’s professional knowledge, skills and experience.

The Human Flourishing Practice™ does not provide psychological assessment, diagnosis, medical or psychiatric treatment, emergency or crisis services, or regulated NDIS Specialist Behaviour Support services.

A shared way forward

Looking beyond the diagnosis

A diagnosis is only one part of a young person’s story.

Every child and young person has their own strengths, hopes, relationships, interests, challenges and ways of being in the world. Their ability to participate and feel that they belong is also shaped by the people, places, opportunities and expectations around them.

The Schultz Human Flourishing Model™ gives families and professional teams a shared language for thinking about these wider conditions — so planning can be more connected, practical and focused on the young person’s everyday life.

For the people walking alongside a young person

The Human Flourishing Practice™ can support organisations and teams working with children and young people with disability, particularly where there are concerns about connection, participation, belonging, learning, wellbeing or future opportunity.

Disability service providers

Support coordinators and recovery-oriented teams

Parents, carers and family support services

Schools, alternative education and inclusion teams

Youth, community and participation programs

Services supporting young people through change or transition

Working alongside existing supports

Many young people and families are already working with dedicated support workers, therapists, educators, coordinators and community services.

The Human Flourishing Practice™ is designed to complement — not replace — those relationships. It can help the people around a young person step back from separate appointments and individual goals, and see the bigger picture together.

The focus is simple: helping create the conditions in everyday life that make participation, connection and belonging more possible.

For parents and carers

You know your child better than anyone. Sometimes, though, it can feel as though everyone is focused on what is difficult, what is missing, or what needs to be fixed.

This approach makes room for a different conversation. It begins with your child as a whole person — their strengths, interests, relationships, hopes and sense of belonging — and considers what might help them take part in the life they want.

Funding arrangements

Some families and organisations may use private funds or, where appropriate, NDIS funding arrangements. Whether a service can be funded through an NDIS plan depends on the participant’s plan, goals, management type and applicable NDIS requirements. Families and providers should confirm funding suitability before services commence.

Let’s start with the bigger picture

If you are an organisation, professional team, parent or carer supporting a young person with disability, we would welcome a conversation about whether the Human Flourishing Practice™ may be a helpful fit.

The Human Flourishing Practice™ works alongside families, organisations and existing support teams. Services are not presented as NDIS supports, and families and organisations should seek independent advice about individual funding arrangements where needed. The Human Flourishing Practice™ is not a substitute for clinical, psychological, psychiatric, medical, case-management, statutory child-protection, educational or emergency services.