EdHealth Australia is a Registered NDIS Provider of Diabetes 4 Disability (D4D) support solutions. Our clinical staff assess, identify and customise D4D services and resources to create an effective system of diabetes support for NDIS participants. Improved diabetes management, health and wellbeing is achieved by placing the needs of each individual, their circle of support and health professionals front and centre. We magnify the impact because we aim to set them all up to successfully care for the NDIS client and their diabetes.
EdHealth Team members Credentialled Diabetes Educator, Kirrily Chambers (left) Director, Registered Nurse and Credentialled Diabetes Educator, Jayne Lehmann (centre) and Administration Manager, Bree, on the bank of the River Torrens, Adelaide.
All members of the EdHealth team have lived experience of disability, chronic disease and/or diabetes underpinning the way we work with NDIS Participants and their circle of support. Our clinical team is experienced, multi-skilled and able to make the complex simple! We engage people with acquired brain injury, autism, cognitive disability, intellectual disability, and/or psycho-social disability in their self-care, while training the support workers in their circle of support to engage the person living with disability to the best of their capacity using support strategies, resources like a Diabetes Management Plan and low literacy picture resources.
The D4D course is an online training program for disability support workers across Australia. Launched at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, this course has grown in popularity because it was able to offer an accessible option during a challenging time for the education of support workers.
EdHealth began with Jayne Lehmann as a Registered Nurse and Credentialled Diabetes Educator working as a self-employed sole practitioner. Once the Diabetes 4 Disability training and companion services were launched, the growing need for our services provided opportunities to bring others in, to increase business capacity. EdHealth is now a team of five people employed by, or sub-contracted to deliver EdHealth’s services.
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EdHealth values a healthy work-life balance for its team members, who work flexibly from home, via the secure and connected remote systems from which we all work. The lived experience of disability, diabetes and chronic disease of our team members brings with it a deeper understanding of the needs of our clients living with disability and diabetes. We want to improve the lives of people with an intellectual, cognitive or psycho-social disability, with whom we work. We celebrate their successes and work to find solutions to their challenges to get them back on track to good health, despite their diabetes!
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Contact an EdHealth team member for a chat about your organization or NDIS participant’s diabetes training or support needs.