We are a national movement of individuals, families, services, and businesses aiming to change the system of funding social support, education and health care in Australia.

Across the country, and throughout the world, many large and small groups of individuals and families, in partnership with businesses and governments, are in the process of making a new system - where people know what they are entitled to and can allocate the money that is assigned for their benefit.. This system is called Self-Directed Support, or Consumer-Directed Care. We use variations of these terms in Education and Health Care.

Internationally, this trend towards personalisation of funding is well-advanced. In Australia it is beginning in disability, accident compensation, aged care and soon in technical and vocational education. But Australian governments and institutions have been very slow to pick it up. We aim to pull them into the 21st century.

We have tools and information available to help you take control of your own arrangements to suit your needs.

With providers, businesses and governments, we are working together to build best practice in Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets - and enable individuals and families to exercise as much control as possible over their lives through control over their money.

We have six core functions:

• Best practice networking
  We encourage individuals, families, services, businesses and governments to share information and expertise to produce best practice in Self-Directed Services and Personal Budgets.
   

• Fund pooling
  The money you may be entitled to, from various governments and departments, can be pooled in a single Personal Budget. We can assist in finding support to set up this arrangement.
   

• Budget holding and money management
  Your Personal Budget can be held in an account, in partnership with a financial institution or other organisation that you might nominate. We can assist in finding support to set up these arrangements, so that your budget-holder can make your payments for you, send you monthly statements just like a bank, and produce financial reports for your funders, meeting your compliance requirements.
   

• Personal planning
  We can assist individuals and families in finding planning supports, pathways and goals that are unique to you.
   

• Community education
  We aim to inform all Australians about their right to take charge of their money in social support, education and health care.
   

• Leadership
  We aim to drive system change in Australia towards person and family-centred arrangements in social support, education and health care.