The Empowered Parent with Dana Baltutis
Jun 17, 2026 · 50 min · 11 segments
Send us Fan Mail Watching your child step into independence can be the proudest moment and the most unsettling one. Graham Clark joins us to speak…
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You know, if someone's thinking about how do I get a team for my loved one, what do I do, they probably could work with a support coordinator to start or they could, like you say, word of mouth.
Sometimes at school, you know, in those later years, people have got word of mouth and, oh, he's really great or she's really great.
People need, you know, if you can get someone that's certified in like a Certificate III in disability or support worker or something like that, that would be your recommendation, Graeme?
There's so many things that, you know, that we check, you know, business insurance, have you got business car insurance, you know, and things like that.
NDIS screening check and, you know, and if people have all this, it's not an issue.
But definitely all the safety checks and things like that, you're with my son.
And we want to know that you're qualified to do it with all your health and safety and that as well.
It says, you know, if you're given value medication, well, you need to have a medical administration certificate so you can administer that medication.
that gives the parents safety knowing well you've been trained you've been trained you've been trained
has to have a cert three because we feel like you know there's challenging times in bradley but that gives you that basic understanding and that's all we need once you've got the basic understanding then we can build on that you know and then
build up further team leader he's cert four qualified all the checks again yeah but yeah and so everyone has to be cert three qualified that's that's really really important just for that basic understanding as i say you wouldn't let a forklift driver jump on and just drive a forklift you train that forklift driver so same here you i just feel like it's better that you've had some understanding before
You know, if someone's thinking about how do I get a team for my loved one, what do I do, they probably could work with a support coordinator to start or they could, like you say, word of mouth.
Sometimes at school, you know, in those later years, people have got word of mouth and, oh, he's really great or she's really great.
People need, you know, if you can get someone that's certified in like a Certificate III in disability or support worker or something like that, that would be your recommendation, Graeme?
There's so many things that, you know, that we check, you know, business insurance, have you got business car insurance, you know, and things like that.
NDIS screening check and, you know, and if people have all this, it's not an issue.
But definitely all the safety checks and things like that, you're with my son.
And we want to know that you're qualified to do it with all your health and safety and that as well.
It says, you know, if you're given value medication, well, you need to have a medical administration certificate so you can administer that medication.
that gives the parents safety knowing well you've been trained you've been trained you've been trained
has to have a cert three because we feel like you know there's challenging times in bradley but that gives you that basic understanding and that's all we need once you've got the basic understanding then we can build on that you know and then
build up further team leader he's cert four qualified all the checks again yeah but yeah and so everyone has to be cert three qualified that's that's really really important just for that basic understanding as i say you wouldn't let a forklift driver jump on and just drive a forklift you train that forklift driver so same here you i just feel like it's better that you've had some understanding before
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