Why Choose Fora Therapy As Your Guide To Therapy Success?
At Fora Therapy, we know how important it is to get the most out of your budget. That’s why we integrate Allied Health Students into our team, providing extra support alongside qualified therapists. This approach enhances therapy outcomes and helps you stretch your budget further. By working with us, you receive high-quality care while supporting the development of future health professionals.
Maximise Your Budget: Strategically incorporating Allied Health Assistants into your therapy plan, ensuring you receive high-quality support while keeping costs down.
Collaborative Care: Our multi-disciplinary team works together to provide holistic, effective therapy.
Support at Every Step: From initial consultation to ongoing support, we’re here to guide you through the process.
Getting Started Is Easy!
Learn how Fora Therapy Guide You to Success
To begin your journey with Fora, sign up, agree to our Terms of Use, and complete the New User Form. This form will gather information about the person seeking allied health support, including therapy goals, details of your Allied Health Professional, location, availability, and any preferences for therapy assistance. Additionally, you can share any challenging behaviours that your allied health assistant should be aware of to provide the best support during sessions.
Here’s how we’ll keep you updated on your Allied Health Assistant (AHA) matches:
1. Email notifications when an AHA applies.
2. Text alerts when your matches are about to expire.
3. Access to matches on your Fora dashboard.
Remember to respond quickly! AHAs are available for meet and greets for 6 days before the offer expires. If a match expires, let us know, and we’ll check if they’re still available.
Our free 1-hour meet and greets help you and the Allied Health Assistant (AHA) see if you’re a good fit. It’s a chance to discuss availability, expectations, and future sessions. For more details, check out our Meet and Greet Guide.
If it works out, we’ll schedule a Team Meeting for a handover from your Allied Health Professional. If not, we’ll keep searching and use your feedback to improve the next match.
A Team Meeting provides your Allied Health Assistant (AHA) with a clear therapy plan and guidance on implementing interventions. It allows the AHA to observe your Allied Health Professional (AHP) and ask questions before starting sessions independently.
AHAs can only work on therapy goals after the Team Meeting, but if an in-person meeting isn’t feasible, telehealth or phone options are available. While they can start building rapport immediately, therapy goals begin once the Team Meeting is complete. For more details, refer to our Team Meeting Guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
This is decided at the Team Meeting. Everybody has different needs, so the frequency of check-ins between an AHP and the therapy assistant will vary. We do recommend check-ins to occur every 4 to 6 weeks to ensure the allied health assistant is supported, guided and has the most up-to-date therapy plan on how to best support the person requiring assistance.
To view our rates and frequently asked questions, please check out our Pricing Page.
If you have any questions, please contact us at info@foratherapy.com or call us on 1800 921 422.
Invoicing occurs fortnightly.
If you are paying for the service privately, or if your NDIS funding is self or plan-managed, you will be emailed an invoice that can be paid via direct bank transfer or PayID.
Participants with agency-managed NDIS funding can request to have their invoices sent to them.
Allied health assistants are not involved in the invoicing process. For any questions or concerns with payments or invoicing, please email accounts@foratherapy.com.
The meet and greet is a complimentary one hour session to give an opportunity for the client and their family to get to know the allied health assistant, and vice versa.
This initial meeting is an opportunity to:
- Interact, engage and build rapport with each other
- Discuss availability for ongoing sessions (especially long term planning, including upcoming holidays, exams or placements)
- Discuss therapy goals for the client, the allied health assistant’s experience level and expectations during sessions
At the end of the meet and greet, everyone should have enough information to know whether it’s a good personality and experience fit, and whether they feel comfortable committing to working together.
Your Support Coordinator and/or Allied Health Professional can also attend the meeting if you would like. Note that they will likely bill you for their time.
Please remember, if you or the allied health assistants decide to not proceed after the meet and greet, we can continue the search for another allied health assistants. However, if you ask your Support Coordinator and/or Allied Health Professional every meet and greet you may be spending your funding unnecessarily.
Our recommendation is that the meet and greet just occurs between the client, the client’s family/ carer and our allied health assistant. This way, it’s free for the client.
Then, if both parties decide to proceed, the allied health assistant will then be required to meet with the Allied Health Professional to have a handover.
The creator of the Fora account can book a meet and greet with an allied health assistant by:
- Logging into your Fora account.
- The allied health assistant’s application will appear on your dashboard.
- You will be able to view their degree, experience and availability for sessions.
- Applications expire after 6 days.
- If you feel the allied health assistant is suitable, you can “accept” their application and book a meet and greet online.
- You and the allied health assistant will be sent a calendar invitation to confirm this meet and greet.
- If the times provided for a meet and greet are not suitable, please email us at info@foratherapy.com or call us on 1800 921 422.
- If you feel the allied health assistant is not suitable, please “decline” their application as it will allow them to pursue work with other clients.
You can meet with more than one allied health assistant. However, given the high demand from families for therapy assistants, you will only be able to organise one meet and greet at a time.
We found that allowing clients to book multiple Meet and Greets slows down the matching process significantly for other clients and families in need.
Rest assured though, you don’t need to feel pressured in your choice. If the first allied health assistant chosen is not quite right for you after the meet and greet, we can reach out to another applicant and organise a meeting if they are still available. If the other applicants are not suitable, we will continue the search and allow more allied health assistants to apply.
If the offer has already expired but would like to have a meet and greet with the allied health assistant, please email us at info@foratherapy.com or call us on 1800 921 422.
We can reach out to the allied health assistant to find out whether they are still available. If so, we can arrange a meet and greet on a day and time that suits both parties.
Please note that we cannot guarantee that they will still be available to work with you as they may have pursued work with other clients.
Generally, the meet and greets are in-person at your home as it allows the person seeking assistance and the allied health assistant to interact in a familiar and comfortable environment.
However, if you would prefer the meet and greet to be online, please email us at info@foratherapy.com or call us on 1800 921 422 once the meet and greet has been booked through your Fora account. We will be able to organise for the meet and greet to be over Zoom instead.
There is no limit on how many allied health assistants you can work with, as long as each of them are involved in a Team Meeting with you and your allied health professional.
If you require several hours of therapy on multiple days per week and a single allied health assistants is not available to fulfil those shifts, we will be able to search for additional allied health assistants to join your team to ensure you receive the required amount of sessions.
If you have limited funding or you only want a few hours of therapy a week, we would recommend one allied health assistant at a time.
