About SCA

Registered NDIS provider. Built by practitioners.

Supporting Communities Australia is a Western Sydney NDIS provider serving young people aged 12 to 20 with disabilities and trauma backgrounds. We work in homes, schools, and the community, one young person at a time.

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12 months: Operating as SCA
8+ years: Frontline experience
12 to 20: Ages we support

Yosmerys Aparicio Cuencas, founder of Supporting Communities Australia — Yosmerys Aparicio Cuencas, Founder & CEO

Our story

Working with young people, not on them.

SCA was founded in 2025 by Yosmerys Aparicio Cuencas, an immigrant woman from Venezuela with a Bachelor's in Criminology and a Diploma of Counselling from 4Life College. Yos built SCA because she saw the same pattern in too many services: well-meaning providers who worked on young people instead of with them.

SCA is the operational arm of the Elevate Youth Lab model, a practice framework built on five principles: rapport before skill, capacity before compliance, explicit teaching, supports-included independence, and neuroaffirming practice.

What makes us different

Capacity built, not hours delivered.

Most NDIS providers focus on hours delivered. We focus on capacity built. That is a harder metric to measure, but it is the only one that matters when a young person is sitting in front of you.

Trauma-informed, every mentor

Every mentor has trauma-informed training. Not a workshop. A practice discipline.

One team around the young person

We work with parents, carers, coordinators, and DCJ as one team. Weekly updates come standard.

Support where life happens

We do not pretend behaviour is separate from environment. Sessions happen where the young person actually lives.

Our thinking, in public

We share our thinking publicly. Our blog and NDIS guide show how we approach the work.

Read our blog and NDIS guide for how we approach the work.

Yosmerys speaking to an audience about youth work practice

Meet the founder

Yosmerys, founder & CEO

Yos hosts the Team with the Queen podcast, speaks on youth work and NDIS practice across NSW, and leads SCA's practice direction. Her lived experience as an immigrant woman shapes how SCA approaches culturally diverse families in Western Sydney. Read more about her work as a behaviour support practitioner on yosmerys.com.

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Who we work with

Young people aged 12 to 20, and the people around them.

We take referrals from families, support coordinators, DCJ caseworkers, and schools across Western and South West Sydney, with specialist Positive Behaviour Support in the Illawarra.

Call 0480 800 521, email info@supportingcommunitiesaustralia.com, or send us a referral.

Work with us.

Free 15-minute chat. No commitment.

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