Preparing for inclusive behaviour support planning

Behaviour support practitioners should use this checklist as a guide to consider to how to strategically set the behaviour support plan up for its best chance of success.

Success doesn’t just rely on a strong plan, but also on the participant and their support network implementing it successfully and consistently. This checklist is a guide only and should be used flexibly, according to what will work best for your participant and situation.

Engagement must be at the heart of everything you do as a behaviour support practitioner for your participant and their behaviour support plan.

As a behaviour support practitioner, you are a key member of your participant's support network and leading them through the process in a way that supports ongoing positive change is essential.

Behaviours take years to develop and people’s responses to them can become ingrained. Likewise, change will take time.

This checklist draws on the ADKAR Model* of behaviour change to propose a structured checklist you as a behaviour support practitioner might use to work with your participant and their support network through the changes required for a successful behaviour support plan.

It draws on The Right Direction resources available to lead you through a successful engagement process as you prepare for writing and sharing the assessment.

Our video on engaging others in change is a useful resource for using the ADKAR Model in behaviour support planning to help the participant change the way they do things and embedded behaviours.

As a behaviour support practitioner, you are likely to have NDIS participants at all different stages of the planning process. This checklist is not prescriptive. As with most of our materials, we encourage you to use it as a guide, use it from any stage that suits your current situation and adapt it as needed for your participants.

Engaging support networks in change explains the ADKAR Model in more depth. This information focuses on adapting the model for participants in behaviour support planning.

* The ADKAR Model was developed by Jeff Hiatt (2003). Find out more information at prosci.com.

Download the checklist and keep it has part of your records of engaging the participant throughout the behaviour support process.