Mentors, Support Workers and Allied Health Assistants
utilising NDIS Core Supports and/or Capacity Building Funding
Pearson Allied Health Services mentoring and support worker services is truly unique.
We offer a fully integrated service where you can chose a flexible program to suit your needs or a more Traditional Support Worker/mentor program. We charge no extra if you would like to spend time at our farm or at the PAHS house, it is all part of the service.
Household tasks
Providing a wide range of household duties, including:
- House cleaning
- Gardening
- Maintaining the home
- Washing and Ironing
Personal services
Supporting with your day to day activities
- Showering and Dressing
- Medication assistance
- Meal preps and cooking
Going out
- Taking you to appointments
- Different social activities
- Drives
- Sports events
Health and Wellbeing
- Personal training sessions
- Yoga
- Hiking
- Mindfulness
- Attending medical appointments
Development of functional life skills
- Cooking
- Traffic training
- Budget training
- Shopping
- Building Confidence and Resilience
Supporting you to maintain Employment
- Preparing you for job interviews
- Looking for work
- Attending work
Spend time with our farm animals
- Meet our amazing farm animals
- Learn how to prepare their feed and care for them
- Take the farm dogs for a walk
From the paddock to the plate
- Collect ingredients from our large veggie garden
- Collect eggs from our chickens
- Make a healthy lunch or afternoon tea
Meet some of our native animals
- We have little native animals like Dunnarts
- Pademelons and Bettongs (tiny little Kangaroos)
- As well as our rescued Kangaroos that live their lives out on the farm
Creative Ways to use your Core budget
Your NDIS Core Supports budget is the most versatile and flexible of all the budget items in your plan and can be used in so many creative ways. It is all about getting you out and about, meeting your goals and enjoying life. To help you think outside the box a little bit, here are some of the more creative ways you can use your Core Supports budget.
Flexible, Tailored Programs, aimed to focus on your goals and interests
(no extra charges, unless stated- 2 hours minimal shift)
*each shift includes 15 minutes for shift notes.
Music Enrichment
Do you want to learn to play a musical instrument, like the drums, piano or guitar? Do you love rap? Or does Karaoke inspire you?
Animal Experiences
Come meet some of our animals at the PAHS Farm, we have cows, sheep, ponies, horses, Alpaca, goats, you name it we have it. As part of your mentoring experience, you can have a session at the farm.
Farmer for the morning/day
Come and learn how to be a farmer; care and feed the animals, collect the eggs, help in the veggie garden.
Cooking – from the garden to the plate.
Walk around the farm and collect eggs and veggies to make a yummy lunch, afternoon tea or dinner.
$5.00 charge for ingredients
Do you love cars?
Get picked up in a beautiful hotted up Mustang. Drive to the Motor Museum, followed by lunch in the hills.
On Weekends only
*Extra costs for lunch and transport costs.
Learn how to care for chickens
Anyone can have a couple of chickens in the back garden. Learn how to care for some chickens; collect their eggs and build a pen for them.
Growing your own Veggies in one square metre
Have your own spot in our veggie garden, learn when to plant and what to plant. Or replicate it at home, and let us teach you how to do it.
Come for a walk stay for afternoon tea
Just come and hang out, go for a walk in the Onkaparinga Gorge, see the river and Kangaroos.
Come meet our bees
Learn how important bees are and how much food relies on pollination by bees. See our bee gardens and look at the hives.