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Social Work
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Primary Health Care Team - Social Work
The team’s social worker provides a direct service to people with a spinal cord injury who live in the Sydney metropolitan area; or a consultation service in regional NSW to people with a spinal cord injury, their carers and families, significant others of people with SCI, health professionals, other community workers (i.e. community health staff, GP's and case managers) as well as Personal Care Staff assisting people with SCI.
The social worker main focus is on:
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Improving both short term and long term health outcomes for people with SCI |
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Providing specialist services
* Information and Referral Line (02) 8741 5674
* Specialist Clinical Support - Occupational Theraphy, Nursing and Social Work Support
* Advocacy and community awareness
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Education and Training for people with a spinal cord injury, families, personal care workers and health professionals |
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For more information, or to request service, you can email: spinalsocialworker@paraquad.org.au or phone the intake number (02) 8741 5674
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15 May 2012
Living Life My Way Consultations Update
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| The NSW Government is conducting a 12 month statewide consultation process to seek the views of people with a disability, their families, carers, service providers and advocacy agencies on a person centred disability system. |
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15 May 2012
Unlimited UK opportunity for Australian Artists with disability
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| Unlimited UK will subsidise a group of Australians to travel to London in September to attend the ‘Festival of the World’, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad |
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10 May 2012
Study by Northcott Disability Services
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| A Northcott Disability Services study is exploring the transition experiences of adults with a disability (aged 40 – 65 years) who are living in NSW. |
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02 May 2012
Connections 2012 Conference
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| Connections 2012 Awards are open to people with a spinal cord injury, those working in the spinal cord injury community as well as early career clinicians, researchers, and postgraduate students involved with spinal cord injury research to attend the Connections 2012 conference on August 13th 2012. |
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