Through her great determination, positive mindset and with a little help of her Support Workers, the independent women is back in the saddle way sooner than anyone anticipated and goes from strong to stronger.
Category: Stories
Goals are what is important for you to achieve with support from the NDIS and other supports and services. What are your goals?
By accident, is how our brilliant Support Worker, got introduced to the disability sector, almost eight years ago - and not only she is glad that she did, but so are we. Her day-to-day work is inspired by the very different people she supports, seeing them live a happy and fulfilled life.
Well, it’s true! Three decades of great achievements, strong relationships and putting people in the centre of everything we do. Let’s have a look how it all began…
Frida has been part of Team Interchange for the past eight years and gained a great amount of front row experience. Frida now uses her amazing skillset as Peer Mentor and Support Superstar in our Maddington Neighbourhood.
“Some people experience great hardship in life but find a way to overcome challenges. They make the best of their situation and smile.” That’s what Evangeline finds inspiring and something she truly enjoys about supporting and empowering people with disability.
A goal, I am working towards is, being able to feel independent enough, to live with one other person of my choice and my Support Workers are helping me to get closer to this goal by assisting me with food shopping trips and helping me make dinner.
‘I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you make them feel.’ She believes this to be very true and stresses how important it is to share positive energy with the others around you to empower them.
Empowerment is pure validation, a state of being in which we recognise and celebrate our own or someone else’s potential. Empowering someone makes people feel emotionally supported and guided to achieving goals.
At Interchange everyone is very welcoming and family orientated. Clare loves that she gets to work with people that are kind, caring and can have a laugh all while still getting the job done.