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Client Services and Coordination
The goal of Client Support and Service Coordination is to ensure that individuals and families of those with spinal cord injury and similar physical disabilities and their families (consumers) receive the support they need after injury, to transition effectively from hospital to the community, and to ensure they are able to achieve their optimal level of integration in the community.
This work is conducted by Spinal Cord Injury Alberta’s Client Service Coordinators (CSCs). They work directly with consumers and their families, beginning at the time of injury, to identify unmet needs, help access services, and set goals for the future. Their work is critical to ensuring that consumers avoid confusion, frustration, and hopelessness as they undertake the daunting task of adjusting to life with an SCI. CSCs remain available to consumers as they age with a disability, helping them to adjust and access necessary services.
To learn more, contact a Client Service Coordinator today.
Peer Program
Spinal Cord Injury Alberta (SCI-AB) was initially founded as an organization of peer volunteers who offered help to injured veterans. It was recognized early on that access to the support of people who have personal experience living with a disability leads to improved emotional and physical well-being.
Peers provide support, mentoring, coaching, and information that contributes to individuals’ successful recovery and transition. Peers are also role models, offering hope to those who may need it. Peers are recognized as being central to adjustment in many spheres of community-based rehabilitation.
Connect with our Peer Program today.
