Community Care Initiative is an NDIS-endorsed disability services provider, which means we comply with all government standards for quality and safety of our services. We’re also particularly experienced with the community aspect of disability services, helping you adjust and connect with society by finding peers living in similar situations.
Our Community Care Initiative staff always embody our CARING values: Compassionate, Altruistic, Respectful, Independent, Nurturing, Grateful. In addition, when we work with you, we hope to coach and develop you into a CARING citizen as well.
We believe that compassion is the building block of excellent care services, and a necessary component of becoming a valued member of society. Our staff will demonstrate compassion at all times, whether they’re helping you with services and activities, listening to your needs, or coaching our excellent self-development programs.
At Community Care Initiative, we also believe it is just as important to show self-compassion. Self-compassion is the ability to forgive and understand your own failings, shortcomings, or inadequacies. When you make a mistake, we like to encourage you to treat yourself compassionately, rather than getting angry at the mistake and then aggravating your negative feelings further.
A value very closely related to the first, Altruism is selfless behaviour that helps other people. An altruistic action could be, for example, the act of giving up your seat on public transport for someone else in a rush. It provides social benefit for someone else, at a small personal cost to ourselves.
At Community Care Initiative, we believe that altruistic actions should come after compassionate understanding. In our programs, we coach people to consider the results of their actions. We believe that true altruism occurs when you perform a selfless action not to make yourself feel better, but to genuinely benefit other people.
We believe that respect should underpin all our relationships, no matter who we’re talking to. Our Community Care Initiative staff will show respect for you at all times, and we expect the same in return. We are passionate about forging and sustaining respectful relationships, and we think that showing respect to other people is the first step to creating a strong connection with other people. In our program, we help people develop respect in all forms, including being polite, listening when others are talking, respecting other people’s beliefs and backgrounds, and many other forms.
One of the primary goals of Community Care Initiative’s services is to help you become an independent contributor to your community. In addition to independent behaviour, we help people cultivate an independent mindset: we want you to recognise your own value, believe in yourself, and make your own choices confidently. In our view, the value of independence is about trusting yourself, understanding yourself, and loving yourself, which is why it is so important to us.
As our Community Care Initiative staff provide their services to you, we will do so in a nurturing manner, rather than being pushy and assertive. Whenever we develop strategies or plans with you, you are free to make the final decision. We will encourage you to step outside your comfort zone, to make some changes if we will it will help ease your life, and to engage with the wider community, but our philosophy is always to be gently nurturing, allowing you to retain your independence.
We are also highly passionate about practicing gratitude. Psychological studies have shown that gratitude makes you happier, healthier, less stressed, more satisfied with your relationships, and even able to sleep more comfortably. We like to coach gratitude by asking you to notice the small moments of happiness in a day, such as a good meal, nice weather, close friends, a relaxing weekend, the opportunity to learn, an interesting book, and many more. By repeatedly focusing on these small moments, we believe that a person is well on their way to becoming genuinely grateful and happy. All our Community Care Initiative staff embody these CARING values, and we hope that, by supporting you with our disability services, we can help inspire you to become CARING as well.