Younger People in Residential Aged Care (YPIRAC) System Coordinator Program

Overview

This program seeks to provide younger people and their families with targeted support to navigate the disability, housing, health and aged care systems to access age-appropriate accommodation and services that addresses their goals and best meets their needs. We are seeking one organisation, or a consortium, to develop and implement the program nationally. The successful organisation will: manage a YPIRAC System Coordinator workforce not exceeding 40 Full-Time-Equivalent positions; receive information from the Department of Health providing contact information for existing YPIRAC, supplied under a data release certificate; be proactive in seeking out younger people who need their services, including through engaging with YPIRAC peak organisations, State and Territory health and disability services, Aged Care Assessment Teams, hospital discharge planners and aged care providers; establish effective local networks in order to assist younger people at risk of entry to residential aged care (RAC), as well as constructive partnerships with aged care providers who currently care for younger residents; initially focus on engaging with younger people who are not National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants to identify their goals and assist them to access services at the interface between health, housing, aged care, and disability services across Commonwealth and state/territory systems; provide specialist training to their workers, focusing on engagement and negotiation skills, knowledge of housing, health, disability and aged care markets and providers as well as care planning and coordination and working across multiple government, community and mainstream service systems; and prepare a research report and provide this to the department. To view the Grant Opportunity documents, please select the red "GO Documents" button on the left hand side.