When safety, wellbeing or quality of life are impacted, Behaviour Support Plans become a key tool amongst your support network. You may have come across the term and thought it to be complicated. However, it is actually a simple process built on a positive belief: that every behaviour has a reason behind it and with the right support, triggers can be identified, and skills and strategies can be made to improve quality of life.
A Behaviour Support Plan (BSP) is a personalised, documented plan that helps you and those around you understand behaviours of concern.
The next question may be, who puts a BSP together? This is where Interaction Disability Services can help. We work with you to understand your challenges and what you want to achieve and together we work out the details and put together the plan.
In this article, we’ll go into depth about what a BSP is and how we can support you.
A Behaviour Support Plan is a personalised and evidence-based document that outlines strategies to help understand and manage behaviour. It aims to understand the reasons behind behaviours, teach new skills to manage behaviours and to improve independence.
BSPs are used across different settings such as education circles, aged care and disability services. It focuses on positive factors and progress.
The purpose of a BSP is to support you with complex behavioural challenges. It is designed to safeguard and reduce risks while still upholding your rights and respecting your dignity. Identifying and understanding behavioural triggers is vital; it will support you to create positive change by adjusting factors such as the person’s surroundings and skills to cope with behaviours.
Each BSP is unique to the person it is made for. It identifies individual triggers, personalised communication strategies and coping mechanisms, and provides training for staff who will be working with them.
There are 2 types of BSPs. An interim plan is a shorter document that includes ways to help keep the person with a disability and others safe. Its main aim is to safeguard the person and lower risks. A comprehensive plan is more detailed and based on a behaviour support assessment. It goes into detail about the person’s behaviour, what is happening and why, and builds on the interim plan to include long term strategy and outcomes.
Your support plan is developed in collaboration with the carers (if the individual is a child) and key professionals tailored to your specific context. It is not created in isolation, ignoring your needs. It is also not a cookie-cutter system where you may have elements of your BSP that do not fit with you and your needs.
Professionals who may assist with the development of your support plan include:
Interaction Disability Services can deliver the support plan through our team of qualified specialists. These include Support Coordinators, Allied Health professionals,Behaviour Support practitioners and Support Workers.
Interaction Disability Services offers behavioural support in Sydney and all the surrounding suburbs including Penrith, Parramatta, the Central Coast, Windsor, the Illawarra regions and many more. We specialise in supporting intellectual or physical disability and people with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Interaction Disability Services was founded in 1979 by a group of parents wanting to help their children interact positively with the community. This desire to support and empower people to feel independent is our driving cause.
If you are impacted by restrictions in your life, intellectual or physical disability, or you’re a carer for such a person, we can help you find help and design a support plan that pushes for positivity and development, rather than constrainment.
Contact us today so we can have a conversation about how to help you and empower you or your loved one.
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