Husband and wife team Adrian & Joan Schincarilol founded guardians & co. in November 2023. Joan previous position was SIL Program Manager with over 20 SIL participants with over 40 support staff to design and deliver thriving outcomes. During this time, Joan was completing her degree that enabled her to work on a 2 year start up project on Joan’s NDIS organisation that gave her the knowledge and resources to start guardians & co. The past 2 years they have built a support and leadership team that bring a wealth of experience in support work, management and care factor. Joan does in house training centred around designing and delivering purpose driven support experience. Building a reputation to enable their participants to learn, grow and thrive through essential skills and strategies.
guardians & co. are a registered NDIS provider, approved to implement restrictive practices.
We also provide:
🟥 core supports – SIL, ADL, STA (incl. Respite), SCA
🟥 capacity building supports – Improved Daily Living Skills, Finding a Job, Keeping a Job, Life Transition Planning Incl. Mentoring Peer-Support and Individual Skill Development.
Support Worker Providers
guardians & co. invests considerable amount of time and resources to provide a purpose driven support experience to their participants. Joan and Joanna are the supports program managers who design each participant’s schedule of support to ensure the support team can deliver.
guardians & co. support workers are trained to:
- build knowledge about NDIS framework
- deliver purpose driven support experience
- fostering team building that enable a ‘thread of continuity’ for the participants to be supported to achieve their NDIS goals, ensure their needs are met and tap into their aspirations to live their best life.
🟥 Supported Independent Living (SIL)
guardians & co. foster a home for the participants to participate in building capacity in independent Living, designing and delivering thriving outcomes for participants to learn skills in shared living and are family inclusive so participants feel they are still connected with their family while living in another home.
🟥 Short Term Respite (STR)
guardians & co. do STA differently! Our participants with STA (incl. respite) funding experience 1:1 in a holiday set up, experiencing choice of activities, participating in the meal planning and enjoying r&r.
🟥 Social & Group Programs
Assistance with Social & Community Participation (ASCP) 1:1 whereupon we support our participants to integrate within their community volunteering, building capacity in forming social friendship by joining local community clubs and participating in other social activities to enable them to feel part of their community.
We build local teams across participant’s community (Atherton Tablelands, Mareeba, Dimbulah, Cairns, Port Douglas/Mossman, Innisfail).
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