My Home My Choice is a NDIA funded program for people with intellectual disability to learn about their home and living options. Knowing your options can help you make informed decisions.

My Home, My Choice is a peer mentoring program run by Self Advocacy Sydney.

The program helps people with Intellectual disability, Global delay and Down Syndrome to better understand their home and living options at different life transition points.

Peer Support sessions will help participants understand their Home and Living options, making it easier to make informed decisions, know their rights and to help speak up for themselves. Participants will build their capacity in recognising and accessing what support is available to reach their housing goal.

Our Home and Living Champion, Skie, is a person with lived experience and has found housing with support.

The peer champion will mentor and train other peer mentors who will then run community and online sessions on housing supports available.

Self Advocacy Sydney will use a codesign process to develop program resources. During the codesign process and in partnership with the participants and mentors, an easy read housing roadmap will be developed so participants can develop an individual housing support plan.

General information on housing supports available will also be co created in pictorial and audio-visual format and made available online and on YouTube, making the program resources accessible for participants and service providers to use. 

People with intellectual disability often fall through the gaps when it comes having information to make choices about what they want and need before their NDIS planning meeting.

For many, this means they have not had the time or opportunity to think about and talk about important choices, like their housing and living options.

Self Advocacy Sydney’s My Home My Choice project provides an opportunity by giving people with disability accessible information and a roadmap around their housing and living options.

This gives people with intellectual disability a chance to have a say and lead their lives. Even if participants are happy where they live, there may be other choices about their home that they can make to help them live more independently.

My Home My Choice project will deliver interactive workshops to small groups of NDIS participants. These will be facilitated by people with lived experience of intellectual disability.

During the workshops we will engage participants to think creatively and positively about their housing and living choices. Participants will be given information, share experiences, build confidence, and skills. Participants will be encouraged to join in discussion, ask questions and think about what is important to them.

Each workshop participants will have a ‘My Home My Choice’ plan that they can talk about with people that support them and take to their NDIS planning meeting.

Every plan will reflect the housing and living choices, preferences, needs, goals, and wishes that are unique to each participant with intellectual disability.

The ‘My Home My Choice’ workshops are free to NDIS Participants with intellectual disability.

My Home My Choice is free for NDIS Participants.

If you want to be supported to know your home and living options, please contact us:

Phone: (02) 9622 3005

Email: skie@sasinc.com