We design, develop and implement peer-led training and courses for people with spinal cord injury.
We are building relationships and partnerships with like-minded organisations that will assist in furthering the potential of people with spinal cord injury, and other similar physical disability, to live well.
Skills For Independence is a peer-led training programme for people with spinal cord injury (SCI) or similar conditions.
The programme is primarily intended to run as a residential course, with participants brought together in a supportive environment where they are able to develop skills that will enable them to live their best lives.
Subjects covered include manual wheelchair skills, power chair skills, transfers, dressing, chronic pain and fatigue, healthy living with SCI through diet and exercise, wellbeing, staying away from home, relationships and body image, and goal setting.
The courses are led by expert peer trainers with spinal cord injury who have personal experience to draw on when delivering a carefully developed programme that mixes lived experience and expert knowledge drawn from diverse fields.
Elements of the course are also available as online learning modules facilitated by experienced peer trainers.
We partner with different state-based organisations to deliver training across Australia.
