Each 90-minute session costs $69 per attending adult.

This is equivalent to $46 per hour, which is below the current national maximum of $83.87 per hour for Training for Carers/Parents.

The fee is per attending adult because each person occupies a place within the group.

• One parent or carer attending: $69

• Two parents or carers attending: $138

This is a disability-specific program designed to increase parents’ and carers’ knowledge and practical skills. Sessions focus on supporting a child’s sensory and emotional regulation, communication, adaptive functioning, independence and participation in everyday activities.

This is different from a general parenting program because the content directly addresses the child’s disability-related functional needs.

You may be able to use your child’s NDIS funding if the group:

• relates directly to your child’s disability and functional needs;

• supports the implementation of disability-specific strategies;

• assists your child to build or maintain functional capacity and independence;

• aligns with your child’s NDIS goals; and

• can be purchased using the funding available within their plan.

• Funding approval cannot be guaranteed, as every NDIS plan is structured differently.

The current NDIS Pricing Schedule includes:

• Support item: 15_038_0117_1_3

• Support name: Training for Carers/Parents

• Definition: Training for carers in matters related to caring for a person with disability

• Funding category: Capacity Building – Improved Daily Living

• Unit: Hour

• National maximum: $83.87 per hour

This support item appears in Schedule 1, Table 3, page 15 of the NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026–27, effective from 1 July 2026.

Yes. The NDIS Therapy Supports Guideline states that some family members, carers and support workers may need training to help the participant complete everyday activities. It also confirms that the NDIS may fund a therapist to help parents and carers implement these strategies.

The guideline explains that training informal supports can assist the participant to build independence or maintain functional skills. Further information is available in the NDIS Therapy Supports Guideline.

The Reasonable and Necessary Supports Guideline also states that the NDIS may fund training for informal supports so that they can help the participant build their skills. For children, the NDIA considers whether the child’s disability-related needs are substantially greater than those of other children of the same age and whether the support will build future capacity or reduce risks. See the Reasonable and Necessary Supports Guideline.

An attending parent may be eligible for a Medicare rebate if they have their own Mental Health Treatment Plan and a valid referral for group psychological therapy.

The referral must be in the attending parent’s name. It cannot be issued in the child’s name to cover the parent’s attendance.

For an eligible 90-minute, in-person group therapy service delivered by a Medicare-eligible registered psychologist, the current Medicare rebate is $35.30 under MBS item 80122. Medicare group-therapy requirements include a group of 4–10 eligible patients.

Eligibility depends on the parent’s individual clinical circumstances, diagnosis, referral and the Medicare requirements. Parents should discuss this option with their GP.

No. Medicare and NDIS funding cannot both be claimed for the same attendance. Families must select one funding method for each session.

No. General parenting programs and family-support services that are available to the broader community are not ordinarily funded by the NDIS.

This program is specifically structured as disability-related parent and carer capacity building. Its purpose is to help parents and carers implement practical strategies that address their child’s disability-related regulation, communication and functional support needs.

If your child’s plan is self-managed, you may be able to claim the fee from their Capacity Building – Improved Daily Living funding. The support must still be disability-related, align with the child’s goals and be permitted under the plan.

If your child’s plan is plan-managed, we recommend contacting the plan manager before registering. We generally do not experience difficulties with these claims; however, plan managers may wish to confirm that the support aligns with the child’s plan and available funding.

Each 90-minute session costs $69 per attending adult.

This is equivalent to $46 per hour, which is below the current national maximum of $83.87 per hour for Training for Carers/Parents.

The fee is per attending adult because each person occupies a place within the group.

• One parent or carer attending: $69

• Two parents or carers attending: $138

Yes. Both parents or carers are welcome to attend, subject to available places. As the fee is per person, each attending adult is charged $69.

If both fees will be claimed from the same child’s NDIS plan, we recommend confirming this with the plan manager beforehand.

The $25.90 rebate applies to an eligible group psychological therapy session of at least 60 minutes under MBS item 80120.

As this group runs for 90 minutes, the corresponding registered psychologist item is MBS item 80122, which currently provides a rebate of $35.30.

Please check:

1. how your child’s NDIS plan is managed;

2. whether Capacity Building – Improved Daily Living funding is available;

3. whether the group aligns with your child’s disability-related needs and goals; and

4. whether your plan manager approves the claim, if the plan is plan-managed.

Redefini Therapies can provide the relevant service and support-item information; however, the participant or nominee remains responsible for confirming that the support can be purchased using the child’s plan.

Parents and carers spend an extraordinary amount of time thinking about what everybody else needs.

This session turns the focus back towards you.

Join us for a relaxed, professionally facilitated conversation about the realities of caring, the things you are carrying right now, and who you are beyond appointments, advocacy, school meetings and support responsibilities.

There is nothing you need to prepare and nothing you have to share.

Tea and coffee will be available from 9:15 am, along with our optional Creative & Regulation Table. You can talk, listen, draw, create, fidget or simply sit with other people who understand.

Attend this session on its own or join us again whenever another topic feels useful.

Sometimes the exhausting part of caring is not one major event. It is having a hundred small things permanently running in your head.

Appointments. Forms. School emails. NDIS. Therapy. Medication. Advocacy. Behaviour. Planning. Remembering. Anticipating.

In this session we will talk about the invisible cognitive and emotional load that can come with caring for a child with disability or neurodivergence.

Together, we will look at what genuinely needs your energy, what may be shared or delegated, and what you may be able to put down.

This is not about becoming more productive. It is about making the load more sustainable.

Come to this session even if you have not attended before. Every Parent & Carer Circle session stands alone.

Parenting and caring can involve complicated feelings — and not all of them are easy to say out loud.

You can deeply love your child and still feel exhausted.

You can be proud of them and frightened about the future.

You can want to advocate for them and also be completely tired of having to advocate.

This session provides a confidential space to talk about guilt, frustration, sadness, resentment, fear, loneliness, love, pride and the many emotions that can exist together.

Nobody will tell you how you “should” feel.

The focus is on understanding your emotional experience with less judgement and greater self-compassion.

You are welcome whether this is your first Parent & Carer Circle or your third.

Sometimes caring for your child also means becoming their advocate, coordinator, interpreter, negotiator and professional-email writer.

That can become exhausting.

This session focuses on navigating difficult conversations with schools, services, professionals, family members and other people in your child's life.

We will talk about advocacy fatigue, saying no, asking clearly for what is needed, deciding where your energy is best spent, and setting boundaries without needing to justify yourself endlessly.

Bring a situation you are currently dealing with if you would like to — or simply listen to the experiences of others.

There is no requirement to have attended any previous sessions.

School holidays can mean a very different rhythm for families, and sometimes considerably more demand on parents and carers.

Our final Parent & Carer Circle for the year is about supporting the person behind the caring role.

We will talk about maintaining your own needs alongside your family's needs, recognising when you are approaching overload, asking for support, setting realistic expectations and making the summer period more sustainable.

This is not another session telling you to “make more time for self-care”.

We will focus on practical strategies that fit within real families, real caring responsibilities and real life.

You do not need to have attended any of the earlier groups. This session is open to any parent or carer who feels it would be useful.