SPINAL
Life SCOTLAND
HAVE YOU MET OUR PEER SUPPORT OUTREACH TEAM?
Spinal Injuries Scotland is a national charity which Spinal Injuries Scotland aims to be an agent for positive change for people with spinal cord injuries.
Spinal Injuries Scotland strives to do more to support those people whose lives have been transformed by spinal injury. We have fully established the Glasgow Peer Support Service and attend the Spinal Unit at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on a daily basis. These Peer Supporters use their own experience of a spinal injury in a meaningful and positive way by drawing on their own personal experience of recovery to help others going through a difficult rehabilitation. They offer empathy and understanding, and encourage the development of mutual support relationships. Our new members tell us that they wish to continue to receive support when they return home after hospital. To this end we have hired three new Peer Support Advisors based in Aberdeen, Inverness, and Dumfries & The Borders.
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