Core Supports & Daily Living · Coffs Harbour

Everyday help at home, from the same people each day

Some days go more smoothly when the right person is there for the morning, the meals and the parts of the week that are harder to hold on your own. We provide that help in your own home, across Coffs Harbour, with workers who stay long enough to learn how you like things done.

What it is

Assistance with daily life, in your own home

Core supports, or assistance with daily life, is the everyday help that keeps a person settled at home. It can be personal care, help getting up and going in the morning, meal prep, medication prompts, and the household tasks that add up over a week.

It also covers the quieter work of building a routine that holds, and the living skills that make a home easier to run. Support can be regular, at set times each week, or a drop-in when a particular part of the day needs a hand.

This is the help-at-home layer. It can stand on its own, or sit alongside getting out into the community and, for some people, a fully supported shared home.

Where we support people
  • Coffs Harbour
  • Emerald Beach, our home base
  • Sawtell
  • Toormina
  • Woolgoolga
  • Moonee Beach
  • Sapphire Beach
  • Korora
  • Sandy Beach
  • Safety Beach
  • Boambee
  • Mullaway
What it can look like

The parts of a week we can take off your plate

The morning routine

A steady start to the day. Help getting up, washed and dressed, and personal care done in a way that keeps your dignity intact and the morning calm.

Meals and medication

Planning and cooking meals you actually want to eat, and a reliable prompt at the right time so medication is one less thing to track.

Household and domestic tasks

The washing, the tidying, the shopping and the small jobs that pile up. Kept on top of so home stays a place you want to be in.

Building living skills

Cooking, budgeting, appointments and the daily skills that make a home easier to run. Built up at your pace, alongside you, not done for you.

Regular or drop-in support

Support at set times through the week, or a drop-in for the parts of the day that are harder. As much or as little as the plan calls for.

The same worker who knows you

A worker who already knows how you take your tea and what a good day looks like, so you are not starting again with a stranger each shift.

The difference

When staff stay, the routine holds

Everyday support only works when it is the same person, most of the time. A routine is easy to write down and hard to keep when the worker changes every few weeks.

Our workers stay. That is the whole idea. Low turnover means the person at your door in the morning is someone who already knows your home, your medication, and the small things that make a day go well.

Over time that consistency does the quiet work. The routine holds on its own, the same calm every evening, and the support stops being something you have to explain and becomes something you can simply rely on.

Who it's for

For adults who want to stay in their own home, with the right help

We support adults with mental health, psychosocial and neurological support needs. Core supports suits people who want to keep living in their own place, with steady help for the parts of daily life that are harder to manage alone.

More on who we work with
This tends to fit when
  • You want to stay in your own home and need reliable help to make that work
  • The mornings, meals or household tasks are the parts of the week that get away from you
  • You live with a mental health, psychosocial or neurological support need
  • Your support keeps changing and you want the same faces instead of a new worker each time
  • You want to build daily living skills at your own pace, alongside someone who knows you
How to start

Starting is a short conversation

01

Tell us what the week looks like

A short call or a message. You tell us which parts of the day need a hand, and we listen before we suggest anything.

02

We look at the plan together

We check that core supports sits in your NDIS plan and work out roughly what regular or drop-in help would cover.

03

We match a worker to you

We introduce a worker whose way of working fits how you like things done, so the first morning is not a cold start.

04

Support settles into a routine

Help begins at the times that suit you, and the same worker keeps showing up until the routine holds on its own.

The whole idea
Your person is settled. The routine holds on its own. The same faces every morning, the same calm every evening. Care is not a promise but a fact you can see for yourself.
The CARE Group & Co.

Let's work out what steady help at home looks like for you

Tell us about the parts of the week you would like a hand with. We come back the same business day, and there is no pressure to decide anything on the first call.