Integrated Supports

The same pace, the same time each week.

Our mentors provide support to help you establish a structured routine that will help you meet your goals. A structured routine is vital to maintain consistent healthy physical and psychological daily cycles to better cope with stress and fatigue. In addition, a routine can enable individuals with ASD to better manage their emotions by avoiding the emotional soup when their physiological needs such as sleeping and eating mix with emotions.  

Valiant Support’s team work together to support you to have a healthy lifestyle by working on ways to better your health and fitness habits. Our goal is to keep you happy and motivated in order for you to lead a healthy lifestyle that incorporates healthy eating and exercise in your daily routine. We provide supports such as assistance with cooking and choosing healthy foods that you enjoy, or to help you build a regular exercise routine and connect you with professionals who can provide one-on-one physical therapy.

Our mentors can support you to find and access your community and share your passions with others. We endeavour to introduce you to a mentor who shares common interests so that you feel comfortable when receiving support. Our goal is to make support as natural as possible, often invisible to other community members.

Our Mentors facilitate various social groups, which can be seen here. So please enquire here to make new friends and try new things.

Mentors are not professional friends. Instead, a mentor supports individuals in learning and applying social skills to increase their relationships through social scaffolding. When first building a working relationship with a participant, a mentor provides social initiation and orientates the context towards the participant. As the relationship progresses, mentors help participants move to a model where they can demonstrate skills like taking an interest in others, remembering their preferences, and compromising with activities. These skills will help individuals create a healthy reciprocating and positive social support system. 

The goal of our mentors is to help them build skills to be leaders in their interest groups within their community. To do this, we encourage and build on various skills such as assertiveness and compromise through the use of psychoeducation, role-play exercises, imagery and video examples etc.  

Mentors gradually change support methods and reduce the assistance level as the participant develops greater independence. Where possible, our Mentors work to transition from formal support worker to a fellow community member once the service has ended.

Much of our self-worth is derived from our roles, e.g., teammates, co-workers, close friends. However, individuals with disabilities are often given undervalued roles. Therefore, we support individuals to adapt their roles to be of higher social value. 

For example:

Video game Player → Video game streamer/content creator

Welfare recipient → Community Volunteer

Mows the lawn → Community Gardener

We help individuals to see the value in their own role in society and building confidence to take positive risks that may lead to desirable outcomes. 

We aim to help you become as independent as possible with support to travel to where you need to be. From visiting friends, attending appointments to accessing your community, we can get you there.

We also provide public transport support to build your confidence when travelling within the community in familiar or unfamiliar places. Providing transport support allows individuals to develop independence and a sense of control over their own lives. 

We work with you to navigate the process of attaining an assistance animal. WOur supports include helping you access public access tests (PAT) providers, specialised dog support trainers and prepare you to apply for assistance animal funding.

Additionally, wehelp you build skills to care for your furry friend along with exploring your community tobuild friendships with others who share our love of animals.

(You do not need to have assistance animals funded in your plan to use this service.)

Learn more about Assistance Animals here! https://www.qld.gov.au/disability/out-and-about/ghad/choosing-ghad 

Our support workers can help you break down the barriers in finding employment and accessing learning facilities. We provide transport to the classroom and back. We also support you to develop the skills needed to succeed in the educational and work environment.

We also provide support to connect with services at your choice of study location, create frameworks on organisation and planning for the best outcomes. Our mentors can also accompany you on campus. Finally, we can support you to overcome barriers that stand in the way of accessing education.

Gain the skills in becoming more independent in your own home. Skills such as organisation, cleaning, planning, and having scheduled chores will help individuals feel like they have more control over their own lives. Our team is there to help guide and support you to organise your things to suit your needs best.