Skill Building Stay

Real change requires more than short sessions or inconsistent environments. Our highly individualised Skill Building Stay combines structure, low-arousal supports, and embedded therapeutic strategies to stabilise behaviour and build lasting skills. It also involves intensive family training.

A Skill Building Stay with Mansfield Autism provides a structured, supportive environment that helps children develop everyday living skills to increase independence and wellbeing. It is an intensive stay, offering consistent, high-level support and a clear focus on transferring skills learned back to the home, school, and community.

Our goal is to support the child to feel regulated and to develop a consistent daily rhythm across 24 hours. By building emotional, sensory, thinking, and relationship skills, we create the right conditions for learning and practising new behaviours. With ongoing support, real‑time coaching, and therapeutic strategies built into daily routines, skills can be practised consistently and safely throughout the day.

Our underlying principles centre around the importance of the child learning respectful relationships, exercise, a nourishing diet, and enough sleep. We remove screens and reintroduce them with boundaries. We explore new activities and build healthy outdoor habits and the social capabilities of our young people.

Many Skill Building Stays include 2–4 days of training, observation, and hands-on coaching for parents, carers, and often schools. The program intends to support families to confidently review their parenting and adopt strategies they think will support their children at home and in the community. A key goal of the Skill Building Stay is ensuring families build confidence and competencies in a way they feel can be sustained into the future.

Our Skill Building program draws on evidence-based frameworks and approaches such as Positive Behaviour Support, trauma-informed practice, structured teaching, and high intensity, routine-based intervention. Our multidisciplinary team includes Behaviour Support Practitioners and Support Workers.

Our Skill Building Stays are NDIS‑friendly, flexible in duration and can be funded from a range of budgets.

Once we have received an expression of interest, our team will be able to provide specific funding advice. The funding requirements will vary depending on duration and support needs.

If you are interested in our Skill Building Stay service or would like more information, please fill in the referral form below and one of our team will get back to you.