Supported Independent Living (SIL) in Logan and Brisbane

Supported Independent Living (SIL) is NDIS funding for support workers who help or supervise you at home, up to 24 hours a day. Trailblazer is a registered SIL provider (NDIS registration 4050133378) with two shared homes on Logan Reserve Road in Waterford West, in the City of Logan. Our support workers run the daily roster, and a registered nurse oversees the clinical side of your care.

SIL pays for the support, not the house. You pay your own rent, food and bills. From 1 October 2026, only registered providers can deliver SIL, so it's worth checking any provider's registration before you sign. For the full detail on what SIL covers, read what SIL is and how SIL funding works.

Who SIL suits

SIL is for adults who need help with daily tasks for a large part of every day, and some support the rest of the time, including overnight. That might be because of a physical disability, an intellectual disability, an acquired brain injury or a psychosocial disability. What matters to the NDIA is how much support you need, not the diagnosis.

It often suits people who:

• are moving out of the family home for the first time
• are leaving hospital and can't safely go back to where they lived before
• have complex health needs that make living alone risky
• want to share a home with other people rather than live by themselves

SIL is usually not the right fit if you only need a few hours of help a day, or you want to choose and roster your own workers. Individualised Living Options may suit you better, and our SIL vs ILO vs SDA guide compares them.

What daily support looks like in our homes

Every person's roster is different, but a normal week in one of our homes is built around ordinary things. Getting up and getting ready. Breakfast. Medication at the right times. Appointments, work, study or a day out. Cooking dinner, doing the washing, winding down in the evening.

Support workers help with these where you need it and step back where you don't. If you can make your own toast but need a hand in the shower, that's how your support is set up. The aim of SIL is to build your skills over time, so we'd rather cook with you than for you when that's what you want.

Your support can include:

• Personal care, like showering, dressing and toileting
• Medication prompting and support
• Meals and household routines
• Getting to appointments and activities
• Following your behaviour support plan, if you have one
• Building skills for living more independently

Each home also has house rules, covering things like visitors and shared spaces. The NDIA's SIL guideline says your provider must give you a written agreement about living in the home, so you'll see these before you move in.

Overnight, the women's home has sleepover (inactive) support. The men's home can have active or sleepover support overnight, depending on what each resident's plan funds.

Registered nurse oversight

Trailblazer is led by Exavier Rikonda, a registered nurse with 14 years of nursing experience. That shapes how we run SIL. If your support involves a catheter, PEG feeding, stoma care or diabetes, the workers in your home have a nurse behind them who knows the work and checks that your plan is right.

One thing to be clear on: SIL doesn't fund nursing care. If you need a nurse to dress a wound or change a catheter, that's funded separately, and we can provide it through our NDIS community nursing service. People with high support needs can read about our high intensity and complex care.

How SIL funding works

The NDIA works out SIL funding from your support needs across an ordinary week. It looks at how many hours of help you need, your ratio, whether your needs are standard or high intensity, and what overnight support you need. It then applies the NDIS pricing rules to reach a figure. We don't publish prices, because the right amount depends on your plan.

To ask for SIL, you'll usually need recent reports from a health professional, such as an occupational therapist, showing what help you need and how often. Your my NDIS contact or support coordinator can help with this.

Before you move in

Moving in starts with a conversation and a visit. You can see the home, meet the people already living there and ask anything you want. We take current residents' views seriously too, because a shared home works best when people get along.

Things we'll talk through and confirm in writing:

• Board: $250 a week, which includes power, internet and water
• Bedrooms: furnished in both homes
• Pets: considered case by case, depending on the people already living in the home
• Notice period: 2 weeks under our service agreement

Our guide to moving into a SIL home covers what to bring and what the first few weeks are like. How we screen workers, report incidents and handle complaints is set out on our quality and safeguarding page.