About

Grow Your Impact - mission statement

The mission of Grow Your Impact is to deliver behaviour support services with diligence, care and commitment so that NDIS participants can enjoy personal growth and a fulfilling life and positively influence people around them with their own unique qualities and story.

Helen Halford - behaviour support practitioner & director

Professional Background

Helen established Grow Your Impact in 2020. She offers a sensitive, friendly and professional approach to working with NDIS participants and their support people. Helen has worked in south east, north west, northern and far north Queensland and Wide Bay-Burnett with people with complex needs in a variety of roles since 2008, including direct support, advocacy, program management and regional development. She has delivered services to children and adults in regional and very remote communities from Mount Isa to Doomadgee and Mornington Island and Townsville to the Northern Peninsula Area and throughout the Torres Strait. Helen is currently based in the Sunshine Coast, Maryborough and Hervey Bay.

Qualifications

Helen is a Proficient Level Behaviour Support Practitioner. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and certificate in Positive Behaviour Support and Training and engages in ongoing clinical supervision and professional development. Helen is also a certified Melillo Method practitioner, exercise coach, yoga teacher, shiatsu practitioner and therapeutic low carbohydrate nutrition coach. She has co-facilitated training in positive behaviour support and foster caring and delivered child protection professional development to Education Queensland.

Memberships

Helen is a member of the following organisations:

Interdisciplinary Association of Functional Neurosciences and Rehabilitation (IAFNR)
Australasian Integrative Medicine Association (AIMA)
The Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners (SMHP)
Australian MENSA
Queenslanders with a Disability Network (QDN)

Personal background

Helen enjoys travelling and playing board games and Lego with her kids, reading, listening to podcasts and keeping fit. Helen has medalled in regional and national Masters competitions in gymnastics, enjoys cycling and following professional football (soccer) and almost any sport. Helen is twice exceptional - Autistic and intellectually gifted - and hopes to find time to write a book and pick up drumming again.

Testimonials

Testimonials have been gathered over the years by independent auditors of Grow Your Impact. Participants and participant representatives have provided the following feedback:

"When asked to rate Ms Halford's service provision on a scale of 1-10, with 10 the highest, participants and/or carers all rated Grow Your Impact a 10. Additionally, they expressed satisfaction and spoke very highly of the level of support received, stating it was above and beyond what they expected."

"(Participant) is doing well and has improved a lot. Helen is a great help to myself and the staff. Helen is very good at what she does and we are very happy with her."

"Helen has sat down and talked together with us and (participant). She has been to see us many times and also visits with (participant) separately. Helen is very knowledgeable and never gives up. I have never had one like her that takes so much interest in (participant)."

"The ways she reaches my son verbally is amazing. If something doesn't work, she keeps looking and never gives up."

"Helen is happy to listen to me and talks through ideas and gives me help and support."