Support coordination is funding in your plan for someone whose job is helping you make your plan work - understanding it, connecting with providers and building your confidence to manage your supports over time.

A support coordinator helps you:

• Understand your plan and what your funding can do
• Find and connect with providers and set up your supports
• Link with mainstream and community supports beyond the NDIS, like health, education and Centrelink services
• Build your capacity, so you need less help coordinating over time

There are three levels, matched to how much help you need:

• Support connection: lighter-touch help to connect with supports and get going
• Support coordination: ongoing help to coordinate your supports and participate in your community
• Specialist support coordination: for more complex situations, delivered by a specialist practitioner

Worth knowing: under the NDIS reforms, a new "navigator" role is being introduced over the coming years, which will gradually change how this kind of help is delivered. Nothing changes for your current plan, if support coordination is funded in it, use it.

Support coordination has to be funded in your plan, so if you'd benefit, raise it at your planning meeting. Want help to check if it's included in your current plan? Email hello@providerchoice.com.au.