Positive Behaviour Support
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is a person-centred, evidence-based approach that seeks to understand the reasons behind behaviours of concern and improve a person's quality of life.
Rather than focusing solely on the behaviour itself, our Behaviour Support Practitioners work alongside participants, families and support teams to understand the function of behaviour, the person’s strengths, unmet needs and environmental influences.
This process often begins with a Functional Behaviour Assessment, allowing us to develop a meaningful understanding of what the behaviour is communicating and the circumstances that contribute to it. From there, we develop practical, individualised strategies that support skill development, improve wellbeing and reduce risk.
A key focus of our work is reducing and eliminating restrictive practices wherever possible. We work collaboratively with participants and their support networks to identify safe and effective alternatives that uphold the person’s rights, dignity and autonomy, enabling greater independence and community participation.
Journey Supports provides Behaviour Support services across the full spectrum of complexity, from early intervention and family-based supports through to participants with significant psychosocial, forensic and multi-system support needs. Our practitioners have experience supporting people involved with the justice system, Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA), Secure Welfare Services, forensic mental health services, Multiple and Complex Needs Initiative (MACNI) programs, and participants subject to restrictive practices or complex risk management arrangements.
Who We Support
Journey Supports works with participants across the lifespan and a broad range of support needs, including people with:
- Co-morbid diagnosis, complex mental health
- Behaviours of concern including aggression, self-injury, property damage, emotional dysregulation and absconding
- Complex mental health presentations alongside disability
- Restrictive practices in place, where reduction and elimination are identified goals
- Justice involvement, forensic histories or elevated risk concerns
- Complex support environments involving multiple stakeholders and service systems
- Support needs during key life transitions, including movement from childhood services to adult services
Assessment and Formulation
Our assessment process aims to build a comprehensive understanding of the person, their environment and the factors contributing to behaviour.
Services may include:
- Functional Behaviour Assessments (FBA)
- Behavioural data review and ABC analysis
- Restrictive practice assessment and review
- Risk assessment and escalation pathway analysis
- Environmental and systems analysis
- Stakeholder consultation and multidisciplinary collaboration
- Development of behavioural formulations and hypotheses
Plans and Reports
We develop practical, evidence-based documentation that meets NDIS and NDIS Commission requirements while remaining meaningful and usable for the people implementing them.
This may include:
- Interim and Comprehensive Behaviour Support Plans
- Restrictive practice authorisation and reduction reporting
- Crisis prevention and response plans
- Behavioural risk assessments
- NDIS review reports and progress reports
- Engagement and intervention plans
- Specialist reports and supporting documentation for multidisciplinary teams
- Reports and supporting documentation for courts, tribunals, statutory services and justice-related stakeholders where appropriate
- Recommendations to support funding reviews, Change of Circumstances applications and service coordination
Intervention and Capacity Building
Our focus is on creating sustainable change by building participant skills and increasing the confidence and capability of the people providing support.
Supports may include:
- Emotional regulation and coping skill development
- Functional communication strategies
- Positive behaviour support interventions
- Restrictive practice reduction strategies
- Care team coaching and modelling
- Reflective practice and staff capacity building
- Environmental modifications and proactive support strategies
- Collaborative implementation planning and review
Where appropriate, we work closely with families, support coordinators, allied health professionals, accommodation providers, justice services, mental health services and other stakeholders to ensure supports are coordinated, consistent and sustainable. We recognise that meaningful outcomes are achieved when everyone involved in a person’s life is working towards shared goals and responding in a consistent and supportive way.
