What is a Host Home?
An alternative to centre-based or group-home respite and living arrangements, Staffing Options offers a person-oriented hosting service. We source hosts (families, couples and individuals) who welcome children or adults with disability into their homes, are embraced as family and community members, while providing the right level of skilled support they require. This service is offered as one-off, short-term or regular stays, or ongoing living arrangements.
Who can use a Host Home?
All requests for host support are considered on an individual basis and hosts are carefully matched to the person.
Foster families who support someone who is turning 18 may continue their arrangements through us.
How can a Host meet my support needs?
Hosts and other Staffing Options staff can support people with a wide range of needs, which may include:
• High medical support needs;
• Complex and challenging behaviours;
• Diverse likes and dislikes, lifestyles, cultures and beliefs; and
• Neurodivergent-informed considerations.
What principles guide the Host Home service?
People’s homes are private places where customs, relationships, security and preferences are honoured;
• Family and friends have natural influence in people’s lives;
• People are unique individuals, supported in personalised lifestyles that are highly relevant to them;
• Valued roles are supported and maintained in people’s lives;
• Bureaucratic/organisational- like processes are minimised in the life of the person.