New Zealand Spinal Trust
Rehabilitation in Christchurch
www.nzspinaltrust.org.nz
Address
Mairehau Road. Burwood.. 4708, Christchurch, Canterbury.Are you the owner or manager of this company?
What you should know about New Zealand Spinal Trust
So whether you are a caregiver, vocational rehabilitation consultant, case manager, assessor, health practitioner, or . Who are the many people behind the New Zealand Spinal Trust and its services?. As your generous donation fuels our expertise, the courage of those who face life with a Spinal Cord Injury is enlarged. Postal Addresses Private Bag , Otahuhu Auckland 1640 New Zealand Physical Addresses Auckland Spinal Rehabilitation Unit 30 Bairds Road Otahuhu Auckland 2025 New Zealand
Membership The Spinal Network Membership is how you can annually partner with us to assist those who have a spinal cord impairment through the work of the NZ Spinal Trust. Your regular contribution enables us to deliver high quality services and support and make a real difference in the lives of those with SCI and the lives of their wh nau. There are currently 4 membership types NZ Resident, Life Membership, Corporate Membership, and Overseas Resident.
Membership benefits Upon becoming a member of the Spinal Network you will enjoy these benefits. Free subscription to Spinal Network News Magazine Access to apply for Total Mobility Taxi card Some extra benefits coming to the Spinal Network Membership soon eNewsletter Complimentary annual access to Spinal Essentials Pro Spinal Essentials ProTM is a specialised online interactive training tool based on the MoodleTM modular learning platform. It was created to improve individual and organisational knowledge and service competency so that persons with a serious spinal cord impairment SCI may receive the highest level of support and service delivery. So whether you are a caregiver, vocational rehabilitation consultant, case manager, assessor, health practitioner, or . When a fall resulted in paraplegia for Professor Alan Clarke, Dean of the Christchurch School of Medicine, he discovered rehabilitation during his ten weeks in the Burwood Spinal Unit as he had never understood it before that the severely under resourced rehabilitation process was a low priority within the health sector.
In 1994, with some persuasion from Christine Smith, General Manager of Burwood Hospital, Professor Clarke gave up his Deanship to become Director of the Burwood Spinal Unit, and that same year, established the New Zealand Spinal Trust. Christine was the first chair of the Trust Alan the first executive director. Today the Allan Bean Centre for Research and Learning, the home of the New Zealand Spinal Trust, stands as a testament to a man who believed that rehabilitation and independent living should be controlled by those recovering rather than the health sector. The Trust undertook fundraising for projects which delivered information, research in rehabilitation and support for independent living.
During the next ten years the Trust evolved its positive philosophy It’s great to be alive and a vision that one day society will forsake its preoccupation with disability and better understand human diversity, with the result that no human being is regarded as damaged or is patronised. The Trust’s immediate mission has always been to improve the quality of rehabilitation and independent living of all recovering people through disciplined research. The Allan Bean Centre, the largest of these projects, is now fully staffed for its role in providing high quality information to recovering people, their families and their health professionals, both on the Burwood campus and in the community. The Allan Bean Centre houses a number of rehabilitation focused programmes including our globally pioneering Kaleidoscope Vocational Rehabilitation programme.
, the Connecting People Peer Family Support programme, the Useful People programme Burwood Hospital and NZ Spinal Trust Volunteers , the editorial office of Spinal Network News and the istrative centre of the Trust. The Allan Bean Centre is for everybody, but rehabilitating people have first priority. Around the activities of the Allan Bean Centre the Trust, working with Canterbury District Health Board, has set up the Burwood Academy of Independent Living to coordinate learning activit
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