About Support Choices

Support Choices was created out of a need to serve. Ann Oliver has worked as a Senior Support Worker in the Southwest since 2014, and has worked around disabled people all her life, with her mother being a social worker for Disability Services for many years. Ann has also spent many years in the Childcare industry and has a particular interest in early childhood and adolescent development.

Ann eventually became disenchanted with what was happening in the industry. She saw many participants becoming just a number and their support workers increasingly frustrated and loose the love for the work. There must be a better way. Surely the industry can be sustainable, wherein the support worker and the disabled person's needs are both met.

We believe a fully qualified professional support worker, appropriately compensated, is more likely to be enthusiastic and energetic towards the supports they provide. This, combined with our belief in harnessing the "good in people and the love of the work", will directly benefit the people they support and is more likely to provide a positive outcome for all.

With the advent of the NDIS coming to Western Australia, many disabled people and their carer's are trying to make the most out of their plans by choosing Self or Plan Management and many, unfortunately, are struggling with the complexities of Employment Law and finding the supports they need are proving more difficult than anticipated.

Something needs to change. People should have access to accurate, reliable, and up-to-date, information upon which to base their support choices. Hence our business name "Support Choices".

Geoffrey Oliver has worked in the not-for-profit health sector for most of his Accounting career and was very concerned with what some participants and employees have been telling him. Having been a volunteer at Sail-ability Albany for some time he finally decided to delve in and help people understand the NDIS better as well as provide basic support coordination, plan management and, importantly, administration of Support Choices.

We decided to build our supports based on the individual's needs, as identified in their plan, and assist in providing the support worker, who is the "key" to success. Matching the right support worker to the client is really important, as is the ability to offer support and choice to the support worker, and not force them to get ABN's when they are really employees at Law.

Support Choices can deliver the best of both worlds...everybody wins. We handle the employment side and the participants get the support they need.

Our approach is fresh, goal orientated, and what the NDIS is trying to achieve. Hence our logo statement, "Building Capacity and Independence for the Future".