How Can NDIS Help People With Complex Support Needs Live Better?
What Complex Support Needs Really Mean in Daily Life
Complex support needs is not a tidy label. It is the phrase used when someone’s disability is woven together with other barriers, mental health, addiction, contact with the justice system, unstable housing, sometimes all of these together. A person might live with schizophrenia and also have no secure home. Another person might be living with intellectual disability but also face cycles of detention and release. These are the people who are often passed from service to service, told a different thing each time, and rarely given support that matches the whole picture of their life. That is what makes the term complex support needs accurate; it's not about one diagnosis, it’s about layers.
