Co-Create is a collaborative partnership between JP Trusted Advisor and Facilitatrix, designed to support you, your organisation and the people you support - because meaningful change is achieved together.
By bringing together two experienced, values aligned and driven organisations, Co-Create offers practical, informed support that helps you strengthen governance, build workforce capability and prepares you for audits and registration requirements, while helping you develop services that are ethical, sustainable and future ready.
We understand, as providers in the disability sector, providing services and supports can be complex. Not only do you have to navigate increasing regulatory expectations, workforce pressures and funding constraints, but you are trying to deliver high quality, person centred support that improves outcomes for NDIS participants, their families and carers.
Co-Create was developed with a clear focus. To support organisations like yours to operate with confidence, clarity and integrity in an environment that is increasingly evolving.
How can Co-Create help my organisation?
You might already be an established NDIS provider or perhaps your organisation is just starting out, Co-Create exists to provide consultancy and training which builds capacity within the disability and mental health sector.
Working together to understand your unique challenges and priorities, we will develop strategic, tailored responses that are achievable, relevant and embedded in practice.
Working with Co-Create, you can expect:
Clear guidance through complex NDIS requirements and regulatory changes.
Practical support to improve service quality.
Access to our expertise and real world operational experience.
A tailored approach, ensuring our consultancy and training deliverables are relevant to your organisation’s size, strength, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and goals.
Confidence that your systems, workforce and practices are both ethical and audit ready.
Our services include specialised consultancy services and training initiatives that aim to improve workforce capability, service quality and inclusion opportunities for people with disability, ensuring your services and supports align with the principals of the NDIS and the relevant legislation.
Through the services we provide, Co-Create helps organisations to:
Prepare for and support NDIS provider registration, compliance and service development.
Develop bespoke policies, procedures and governance frameworks aligned with best practices and regulatory standards.
Identify, develop and implement tailored training, mentoring and supervision programs according to sector needs to help strengthen workforce capability.
Identify, develop and implement tailored NDIS education and training programs according to both government and mainstream services.
Explore educational and training opportunities in the format of sector forums and/or conferences which upskill the sector and provide income revenue opportunities.
What services does Co-Create provide?
Why this partnership matters
Together Jodi from JP Trusted Advisor and Caroline from Facilitatrix bring a wealth of knowledge and decades of frontline, leadership and consultancy experience across disability, mental health, aged care, government and human services.
That means the alliance understands not only the requirements of the NDIS, but how those requirements translate to day to day service delivery, ensuring participants are able to live their life the way they choose while working towards achieving their goals.
For you, this means Co-Create provides support that is:
Practical – we understand the realities you and your teams face each and every day.
Strategic – we ensure strategies for growth and effect are sustainable.
Ethical – we ensure services and supports are person-centred.
Responsive – we prepare you for upcoming sector changes, helping you implement those changes so you are ready for audit.
Our shared purpose
Our purpose is to foster a collaborative partnership and leverage the diverse expertise of both organisations to strengthen outcomes for people with disability, the organisations who support participants and the workforce that underpins the sector.
For you, that means having a trusted partner who works with you to help build capacity, capability and confidence across your organisation.
Our shared vision
We share a vision of a sector grounded in ethical practice and dedicated to achieving positive outcomes for the communities it serves.
Our values
Our values shape the services we provide, how we work with you and what you can expect from us.
Collaboration for impact – we believe meaningful change is achieved together.
Driving quality – we combine expertise with lived experience to uplift organisations.
Accountability in action – we hold ourselves accountable to our own values.
Achieving outcomes – we are driven by results that matter.
Ideas in action – we embrace innovation as a pathway to inclusion.
Meet Co-Create’s partners
Jodi is the Director of JP Trusted Advisor which she founded in 2019 and is also a highly experienced Specialist Support Coordinator and Consultant supporting disability service organisations.
For more than 30 years, Jodi has continued to work across the disability sector and has gained qualifications in Human Services and Disability, Community Services and Disability Support and is a qualified trainer and assessor with extensive NDIS knowledge and brings practical leadership, advocacy and a strong participant focus to her work.
With decades of experience working across accommodation, community access and employment services, Jodi has worked both in the not for profit and government sectors. Her experience across frontline and leadership roles has given her a detailed understanding of the operational realities faced by disability service providers and the challenges experienced by participants and their families and carers.
Jodi’s work as a Specialist Support Coordinator is delivered independently from her consultancy services, without conflict of interest, ensuring participants receive objective, person centred support, while organisations benefit from ethical and transparent advisory services.
Jodi Perkin - JP Trusted Advisor
Jodi is highly regarded across the NDIS and disability sector and her organisation is recognised as a NDIS provider of choice. As Director of JP Trusted Advisor, Jodi leads and mentors a highly skilled and experienced team of support coordinators and specialist support coordinators ensuring high quality practice, strong supervision and consistent outcomes for participants. Jodi’s consultancy experience includes supporting providers with NDIS compliance, SIL setup and registration, service development and training emerging providers to navigate NDIS regulation requirements with ease and confidence.
With a keen interest in workforce development, Jodi is particularly focused on training staff in participant rights, person centred practice and supported decision making. Jodi is well known in the sector for her transparent, collaborative approach and her commitment to building relationships with others and enjoys working closely with multidisciplinary teams, service providers and stakeholders to building capable teams and strong service delivery to achieve positive outcomes for people with disability.
Jodi is committed to supporting organisations to delivering safe, high quality and sustainable services by ensuring systems and practices are in place and teams are highly skilled, while putting participants at the centre of decision making and support.
Caroline if the Founding Director of a Facilitatrix and an experienced advisor to disability service organisations seeking to strengthen practice, governance and service delivery. With qualifications in Psychology, Sociology, Counselling, Professional Legal Studies and Public Sector Management, Caroline is also currently studying Positive Behaviour Support and brings a rare blend of clinical insight, policy and systems knowledge and strategic capability.
Drawing on more than a decade of hands-on NDIS experience, particularly in Specialist Support Coordination, Caroline supports organisations to navigate complex operational challenges, improve participant outcomes and build confident, skilled teams and processes that leave organisations audit ready.
Having contributed to sector-wide capability building, Caroline was a panel member of the Exceptionally Complex Support Needs Program, where she provided guidance to specialist support coordinators working with participants with multifaceted needs. As a mentor, Caroline also supports emerging providers and delivers targeted training programs including Mental Health First Aid, Human Rights, Decision Making and Guardianship and Administration, helping organisations strengthen workforce capability and embed best practice.
Caroline Marshall - Facilitatrix
Caroline’s expertise in adult guardianship and administration, shaped through her work at the Office of the Public Advocate, equips her as a leading advisor in supporting and substitute decision making. Her career spans local and state government, aged care, disability, mental health, alcohol and other drugs and suicide prevention, grounded in her early experience as a support worker.
Caroline is committed to supporting organisations to build robust, ethical and sustainable services that support both the service recipients and staff to thrive.
By working together, we can support organisations by providing practical support, that strengthens governance, workforce capability and participant outcomes, built upon from our years working hands on and in leadership roles across the disability sector. Co-Create enables us to work with other providers as they navigate change, complexity and growth, while ensuring services remain ethical and person centred, as we believe meaningful change can only be achieved by working together.”
Jodi and Caroline, Co-Founders of Co-Create
Working with Co-Create
If you are seeking a partner who understands the challenges you may be facing and can help you prepare for what’s ahead, Co-Create is here to support you.
Want to know more? Explore our specialist consultancy and training services and find out how we can support your organisation.