Distinctive Options

Distinctive Options have been assisting people to fulfil their potential and gain equality in the community since 1985. We are more than an approved NDIS provider we guide our participants on a journey and form a unique partnership that enables them to practice choice and control over their life.

Officially, Distinctive Options is a registered not for profit endorsed deductible gift recipient charity. We see ourselves more importantly as a profit for purpose provider, so we can re invest and grow service options for our participants.

We provide services to children and adults with a range of group, individual, employment & holiday support options available.

Distinctive Options supports over 300 participants, operating from six individual sites across the north central west region of Victoria.

At Distinctive Options, we know that stories are created every second, and for those stories to fully shine, every second counts. We collectively commit to the following fundamental principles:

• We will always listen to understand first rather than seek to be understood
• We will always be truthful and honest in our conversation and commitments; if we say we will do something then we will do it
• We will always value you more than we value your funding
• We value and measure success ‘one person at a time’ by people telling us that Distinctive Options have made a difference in the health, happiness and wellbeing
• All behavior is a form of communication and it is incumbent on us to better understand rather than you to ‘better communicate’
• We want you to have bigger ambitions because better outcomes happen when people imagine better and experience more in a setting that is dedicated to their health, happiness and wellbeing
• We all learn from experience which includes being allowed to make mistakes in order to do better next time