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Cooinda Family Support Services is a non-government, non-profit, Community based organisation with a voluntary Committee of Management. Cooinda is viable due to a significant number of volunteers who support the organisation and its staff and are also users of its service. Click the links above or in the picture below to find out more about Cooinda.

Referral
Library
Advocacy
Outreach rurally isolated
Accessing services
Problem solving Information exchange
Individual funding submissions Social functions
Linking families
Monthly newsletter
Monthly meetings
Parent support groups
Family camps
Workshops and conferences
Parenting skills
Respite care
Computer loan scheme
Crisis support Sibling activities
Transport assistance
The Capability Dialogues

<-- click on the book to go to The Capability Dialogues, a project of Cooinda Family Support Services.

INTRODUCTION

COOINDA is a locally based Family Support Group that was formed in 1976 by families who found that they shared a common bond: They all had children with disabilities. Many families experience financial, physical or emotional stress related to the care of their family member with a disability at some stage. What started as a mutual support group has now grown into an organisation that helps support families to support themselves. You can become a member of Cooinda if you have a child/adolescent/adult with a disability in your family or if you are an interested person or organisation.

You can read our Goals and Aims here.

You can read a short history of Cooinda in The Capability Dialogues, a project of Cooinda featuring work by members, staff, volunteers and others, writing about disability in their lives and their relationship with Cooinda.

COOINDA FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP INC.

COOINDA provides an opportunity for families to meet each other, share experiences and information and give ongoing mutual support.

What originally started as basic moral support has now grown into a formidable sized group that currently services approximately 200 families in the Albury/Wodonga and outlying region.

The basic requirement to become a member of COOINDA is to have a family member with a disability.

COOINDA sees the need for caring and providing assistance for the whole family as its focus.

The extended family (grandparents, relatives, etc) and family friends are encouraged to become involved in the Seminars, Workshops, Lobbying and Social or Fundraising activities.

people involved in Cooinda

Members:-
  • Two parent families
  • One parent families
  • People with a disability
  • People who are rurally isolated
  • Service Providers
  • Interested Persons
  • Children
  • Adolescents
  • 60 years and over
  • Relatives and friends
Professionals :-
  • Paediatricians in N.S.W. and VIC.
  • Special Educators in N.S.W. and VIC.
  • Therapists - Speech, Occupational, Physio.
  • Department of Human Services.
  • Department Of Community Services N.S.W. and VIC.
  • Disability Advocacy and Information Service.
  • Home and Community Care N.S.W. and VIC.
  • Department Of Ageing, Disability and Home Care
  • Wodonga Council Disability Services.
  • Association For Children with a Disability.
Patrons:-
  • DR. PETER VINE M.B., B.S., F.R.A.C.P.
  • DR. JOHN DOUGLAS M.B., BS., M.R.C.P., F.R.A.C.P.
  • DR. GORDON RENNICK M.B., B.S., F.R.A.C.P.
  • DR. MARK NORDEN M.B., M.B.B.S., F.R.A.C.P.

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