BSSG Membership Information
Once a stroke survivor is discharged from hospital and returns home, or moves into appropriate accommodation, he or she embarks on a life-long stroke recovery journey. Throughout this journey, the stroke survivor, carers and family members must make adjustments to cope with various stroke-related disabilities, and rebuild their respective lives. Community-based stroke support groups, like the Boroondara Stroke Support Group, can play an important role by helping stroke survivors and their carers to make the necessary adjustments and to rebuild their post-stroke lives.
The BSSG offers its members a wide range of activities and programs that help stroke survivors and their carers to rebuild their post-stroke lives and to reintegrate into their local communities. By providing a range of programs, and by encouraging stroke survivors to participate in them, we hope to provide each of our members with something new around which their post-stroke lives can be built.
The cost of membership of the BSSG is minimal, at only $10 per year. The BSSG obtains the funds necessary to run these programs largely by obtaining grants and receiving valuable support from organisations such as the Inner East Community Health Service, the Hawthorn Community Chest, the City of Boroondara, the Rotary Club of Balwyn, and the Department of Human Services. We also have very valuable partnerships with community organisations such as Uniting Aged Care's Elgin Street Centre and the Kew Heights Sports Club.
