"Young Women Connect" Encouragement Group
A FUN way to grow social skills together - Course For Women (Ages 18-30 yo with age-appropriate mini-groups)
Social Skills, Life Skills, Healthy Friendships & More
"Young Women Connect" - Social Skills & Social Confidence
Social Skills in an online community - from your home
Course for women aged 18-30, and any person who identifies as a girl.
We have different session times, depending on your age group and interests.
Autism Friendly - A Time for Connection
- Led By Experienced Autism Supporters - We understand that socialising sometimes feels exhausting
- We are on your side and if you need a quiet evening this is for you.
- If you want a chance to be heard, this is also for you.
How We Have Fun Together (On Zoom, From Home)
This is an online community for any young woman who is looking to build their social skills and learn to enjoy socialising.
- Social confidence: Build the courage to spend time with new people.
- Friendship skills: Learn to make friends and build interpersonal skills.
- Chat skills: Develop conversational skills and small talk skills.
- Being authentic/real: We can learn how to express our true opinions and be our real selves.
- Encouragement: When life is tough, we are stronger together.
What We Do At Our Get-Togethers
Most importantly we have fun.
- We chat about things we are facing in life.
- We develop our empathy skills to connect.
- We grow our reflective listening skills.
- Play some games, drink some coffee.
- We laugh together – because social times are something to look forward to.
When?
Monday evenings, enrolling for 2024 now (8 spots available).
We Help You Achieve Your NDIS Goals
We set goals depending on your/your child's abilities, and for community members who are on NDIS. We set goals that match NDIS objectives and unique personality.
NDIS Funding Categories
Chat with your plan manager for what is relevant to your situation.
It is helpful to know that other families have told us they usually use these categories (or similar):
- Increased Social & Community Participation
- Improved Daily Living
For plan-managed participants, your plan manager will be able to tell you whether your plan will cover this.
NDIS-Friendly Pricing
$83 for each 75-minute session.
[NDIS Structured as 1.25 hour x $61.50 + 0.1 hour x $6.15 non-face-to-face, total $83]
NDIS funding is generally available for self-managed and plan-managed NDIS plans
Advantages
No Waiting Lists!
You hate waiting lists and so do we!
We have many
mini- groups and we would rather add more groups than have a waiting list.
We'll do everything we can so your child can start in our next course.
So Easy - On Zoom - From Home
Participate from home, on Zoom.
At each session your daughter is part of a close-knit mini-group of students working together, with our leaders helping and guiding team-work negotiations.
Each week we have a different social skill that we work through together.
For Women Aged 18-30 (In mini-groups)
We have different session times, depending on your age group and interests. We've deliberately designed these sessions so that we can experience friendship, regardless of age or ability.
Experienced Autism-Friendly Leaders
That's because you/your child will work with our staff members who will make sure that everyone is using friendly voices and supporting each other.
Helping Autistic Young People Learn New Skills
We use a range of Autism-friendly strategies to make it straight-forward for Autistic people to develop their social skills, conversational skills and teamwork skills. Here’s how we help young people grow their skills in an Autism-friendly way:
- Make routines, rules and social norms clear and specific so that learners don’t have to guess what is expected.
- Break each new social skill down into steps, demonstrate the steps and then create a safe space for learners to practise using those steps.
- Create ways for learners to use their new skills within the group or at home with a parent/supporter.
- Explain the reasons why these steps work and why the social skill is worth learning and using.
- Point out the small wins along the way - every step that is helpful is a win.
- Using encouragement, humour and sense of team spirit to make learning fun and to build peripheral social skills at the same time.
Peace-Of-Mind Promise: What if we need to pull out?
We can:
- Stop doing the course if we need to.
- Switch to a different course if we need to.
- Do ‘catch-up’ sessions for missed sessions.
You won't be billed for an entire course if you need to pull out.
Almost every time, our kids/teens find their groove and enjoy their sessions.
If we need to tweak something, we can switch to a different mini-group, modify session times, or even pair them with a different leader.
We understand that sometimes life seriously happens… A death in the family, sudden health issues, parents going through a hard time etc etc.
But rest assured, if it doesn't work out (and it will), you're only billed for the part of the course that your family participated in.
NDIS Reports Provided
Parents often ask, “Can I please have a report for our NDIS plan review?”
Rest assured, the answer is a resounding "Yes!"
We'll arrange that for you.
No hidden fees - All reporting like this is already built into the standard program fee, so you will not be given an extra fee beyond the usual cost of the program.
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