Who we are

KindPath Collective is a broad-spectrum advocacy service, currently building toward full NDIS registration and operating today under our founders’ own sole-trader arrangements.

We support people to understand their rights, make their own decisions, and get access to the services and supports they’re entitled to — without jargon, and without an agenda that isn’t theirs.

Our approach starts from the person, not the paperwork: we listen first, then build the plan around what actually matters to them.

Why we stay small

The service system in our region is fragmented: people are passed between agencies, re-telling their story each time. What’s usually missing is someone who stays. That’s the job we’ve chosen. To do it properly we keep a small, deliberate caseload and work by referral, partnering with other services rather than trying to become one big one.

What we’re learning

Alongside our practice, we’re researching how service fragmentation is actually experienced by practitioners and the people they support across the Northern Rivers, and how it has changed since the NDIS was introduced. We’ll share what we find once it has been properly checked. We’re not recruiting participants through this website.

Where we’re at

KindPath Collective Inc is an incorporated association working toward its own NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission registration. Until that registration is complete, supports are delivered by our founders as sole traders, operating to the same standard we’re building the organisation around from day one — so the eventual transition is a change of paperwork, not a change of how support is actually delivered. You can read the practice standards we hold ourselves to on our policies page.

Our founders

KindPath was co-founded by Samuel Cross and Tristina Hay, based on Bundjalung Country in Nimbin, Northern NSW.