Frontline Episode 2: Friendship and Support Work Boundaries

About this episode

This episode discusses the complexities of friendship and boundaries between support workers and the people they assist.

There are few questions in disability supports more contentious than this: Can support workers be friends with the people they support, or does this cross a boundary? In this episode of Frontline, we talk to people with disability about the relationships they like to have with their support workers and offer tips for NDIS providers wading through the nuance. Shownotes: ⁠ Not Friends, Not Family - By Dave Hingsburger , ⁠DSC newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠DSC Website⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠DSC training

People in this episode

Host: DSC

Topics covered

• disability support
• friendship
• boundaries
• NDIS
• relationships

Keywords

• disability
• support workers
• friendship
• NDIS
• boundaries
• relationships
• support

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DSC

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