When the usual options do not fit you.
Not everyone is served by a standard group program. Innovative Community Participation is different: a creative, individualised path built entirely around your goals — to grow skills, confidence and connection, and often to open a door toward work, study or a fuller life.
Your pathway
Designed around you
Your goal
A job in a cafe
Build skills
Grow confidence
Work experience
Doing it
When the group program is not where you shine.
Standard group activities work brilliantly for many people. But not for everyone. For some, a busy group is overwhelming, or simply not aligned with where they want to go — and being placed in one anyway can feel like being told your goals do not count.
The result is people quietly stuck: capable and motivated, but without a program that actually fits their interests, their pace or their ambitions.
Innovative Community Participation exists for exactly this. A creative, individually designed path — built around who you are and what you want to move toward.
Your goals are not too unusual to support. They just need a program imaginative enough to meet them.
Not a program you join. One built for you.
Individually designed
Not an off-the-shelf group — a program shaped around your specific interests, strengths and goals.
Creative by nature
When the usual pathways do not fit, we find new ones — flexible, imaginative and genuinely yours.
Goal-directed
Every activity moves you toward something real — independence, a skill, a role, a purpose.
Capacity-building
The aim is to grow you — skills and confidence that open doors and last well beyond the program.
A few pathways we have built.
Illustrative examples — yours would be designed entirely around your goals.
Toward work
Building the skills, routines and confidence — and real experience — that become a bridge into employment.
Toward a craft or passion
An individual program around art, music, making or a special interest — turning a passion into growth and connection.
Toward purpose & contribution
Volunteering, mentoring or community projects designed around you — finding meaning and belonging.
This is likely a good fit if…
- Standard group activities do not quite fit you.
- You want a creative, individually designed program.
- You are working toward independence, work or study.
- You have specific interests or goals that deserve a tailored path.
Something else may suit if…
- You want mainstream group activities and outings — see Community & Social Participation.
- You mainly need travel support — see Travel & Transport.
- You want broad everyday skill-building — see Life Skills Development.
How this is funded
Innovative Community Participation is funded as a flexible, individualised form of community participation. Here is the plain-English version.
Funded from: Core Supports, as an innovative form of community participation.
Flexible: Designed around your goals rather than a fixed group program.
Often a bridge: Frequently used as a stepping stone toward work, study or independence.
Led by you: Your interests and goals shape the whole program.
Innovative Community Participation, answered
Supports that pair well
Let's design a path that's genuinely yours.
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