RuReSA is delighted to announce the launch of an Award to recognize inspirational people working in rural rehabilitation. The Award will be inaugurated at the Rural Conference, September 2014.
By creating this Award we hope to:
By creating this Award we hope to:
- Inspire therapists to contribute to rural rehabilitation
- Create awareness of excellence in rural rehabilitation practice
- Provide opportunity for the nominee to share their rural rehabilitation knowledge and skills
criteria for nomination
The nominee should be:
- A member of RuReSA
- Currently working in the field of rural rehabilitation
- In the past 2 years shown excellence or innovation in any of the following areas of rural rehabilitation:
- Development of “best practice skills” in the rehabilitation unit
- Innovative or efficient and effective use of available resources
- Extending sustainable CBR services or developing new CBR services
- Commitment to multidisciplinary team (MDT) development and fostering team spirit
- Developing partnerships with people with disability in the community
- Empowering people with disabilities to become active in Disability Rights
- Worked with local communities to change physical access or social acceptability in that community with tangible benefits for children and adults with disability
- Rural research focusing on “best practice” models
- To have made an outstanding contribution to the life of a person with disability
