Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) 2025–27 extension resources
This collection provides guidance materials for CHSP providers for the 2025–27 extension.
Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) resources
Conversational tips
How to have a conversation on wellness and reablement with the client (without using the word reablement) by instead defining and illustrating your delivery approach and how doing with, rather than for, can benefit the client. Includes benefits to clients, their carers or families.
Principles for goal setting
In developing person-centred goals for clients, there is no one-size-fits all but there are certain guiding principles that can help you develop individual goals for your clients. The SMARTA approach is demonstrated with examples for each element, including a goal-setting checklist.
Care planning checklist
Sets out the principles of effective care planning and includes a checklist to step out the client requirements. For example, their circumstances, goal, actions (and who is responsible: the client, family or carer, or the service provider), the frequency of services and review dates.
Identifying opportunities for reablement
Guidance to introduce reablement practices into everyday service delivery to help empower clients do what they can for themselves. This may involve different ways of doing a task or offering choices, which can increase confidence and motivation, in turn linking to increased social connectedness.
Service delivery reflection template
Through questions, this template aims to develop a greater understanding of the effectiveness of service delivery techniques in shifting towards wellness and reablement by considering what worked well, if there were barriers, what were they and what could be done differently to support clients.
Toolkit for embedding wellness and reablement into your organisation
Provides service managers with support to implement change at an organisational level to embed, review and establish continuous improvement mechanisms on wellness and reablement. The toolkit is designed as a Practical Guide to Embed Wellness and Reablement which focuses on service delivery.
Practical guide for embedding wellness and reablement into service delivery
This practical guide is for all in-home aged care organisations. It helps those who manage the intake process, develop care plans with older people and their family/carer, and deliver support focussing on client strengths to continue living at home as independently as they can.
Principles of wellness and reablement
A one-page document explaining the concept of wellness and reablement for support workers. It identifies eight underlying elements – or key principles – of wellness and reablement, including how these can be applied to an overall service delivery approach with their clients.
More good days wellness wheel
Outlines a whole-of-person approach across three key areas of wellness: mind, body, and social connectedness. Includes sample questions to gain an understanding of what is important to the client, so that with the information in the assessment, an individualised care plan can be developed.
Review of Assistive Technology Programs in Australia Final Report
This final report examines the current Assistive Technology (AT) arrangements in Australia.
Review of Assistive Technology Programs in Australia Supplementary Technical Report
This technical report examines the current Assistive Technology (AT) arrangements in Australia.
Reablement Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) fact sheet
This fact sheet shows how the Promoting Independent Living Budget measure affects Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) providers in trial sites.
Growth Aged Care Planning Regions and Service Types 2019–20
This document shows priority areas of growth for Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) services in each region.
Living Well at Home – CHSP Good Practice Guide
This guide helps service providers understand the concepts and principles of wellness, reablement and restorative care approaches in services delivered under the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP).
Outcomes of the Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) wellness and reablement report 2018
This report shows results of a 2018 survey of Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) service providers from all states and territories, except Victoria.
Wellness and Reablement – Summary of Consultations across the Home Care Sector
This report summarises the result of consultations about wellness and reablement approaches in the aged home care sector, which Nous Group held in 2017.
CHSP Organisation Overview Report Guide
This guide helps Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) service providers understand the reports they create in Data Exchange.
Caring for older people in heatwaves – Home Care and CHSP
This checklist is for home care and Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) providers. It has what to do before and during a heatwave.
Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) funding extension
Webinar information on the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) funding extension from 2018 to 2020.
Reforms in home care
This webinar will outline how the aged care reforms will help senior Australians to remain independent and in control, living at home and connected to their community.
Commonwealth Home Support Programme 2022-23 extension webinar
The webinar provides Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) providers with information about the one-year extension from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023 and the move to payment in arrears.
Support at Home Program and Regulation Update – Webinar
This webinar will discuss the Support at Home Program overview and summary documents recently released. The status of Support at Home regulation development and upcoming consultation opportunities will also be highlighted.
Reforming in-home aged care and regulation update – 31 August 2022
The Australian Government extended the reforms to in-home aged care until July 2024. This webinar will give older Australians, their families and carers, and the aged care sector an update on the reforms. The update will include progress on a new Aged Care Act and regulatory arrangements.
Reforming in-home aged care update – 7 December 2022
This webinar is for older Australians, their families and carers, and the aged care sector. It provides an update on the feedback we received on a new program for in-home aged care discussion paper. The webinar outlines the next steps for the reforms.
Reforming in-home aged care update – 18 May 2023
This webinar provides an update to older people, their families and carers, and the aged care sector on in-home aged care reform.
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