Spinal Cord Injuries Australia (SCIA) and Trusted Home Care have combined to provide an increased level of care for Central Coast residents with spinal cord injury and other neuro conditions.
Launched recently at Hamlet Respite Farm, the partnership will see SCIA’s Peer and Family Support team start up on the Coast.
SCIA CEO Dianne Lucas said the Peer and Family Support was a team of experts who have lived experience of spinal cord injury.
“We have established teams across NSW and Western Australia, and 91 per cent of people who received our peer support services said that our lived experience team helped them adjust to live with a spinal cord injury in the community,” she said.
“People think that support begins and ends in hospital when someone acquires a spinal cord injury, but that’s not true.
“We want to let people know that community peer support is just as important, and we’re here for the people of the Central Coast.”
Peer support after life altering, traumatic events can save a life.
SCIA is a for-purpose organisation working for people living with spinal cord injury (SCI) and other neuro conditions, founded almost 60 years ago.
Trusted Home Care, a proven provider of high-quality, in-home care on the Central Coast, believes that elderly community members and those who live with a disability deserve to be cared for with compassion and support strategies which enable clients to keep living a fulfilling lifestyle.
The service is available now, with teams working in hospital wards around the region.
To find out more fill out a referral form at scia.org.au/peer-support/ or email jwright@scia.org.au