Could YOU perform CPR right NOW? If you had to could you perform CPR right now to save someones life could you….. when was the last time you did a CPR course? Another near drowning A mother finds her child floating face down in a backyard swimming pool….. it is a scenario that happens far […]
Disability Care and Support – Draft report from Productivity Commission
The Australian Productivity Commission released their draft report on Disability Care and Support on 28 February 2011. The Samuel Morris Foundation is one of the organisations that has been behind the push for a National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), and the NDIS was part of the terms of reference for the Productivity Commission. The Productivity Commission […]
Living with severe disability
The Samuel Morris Foundation supports children that have a wide range of disability as a result of brain injuries. Living with a child with a disability has a wide range of effects on the child, parents, siblings, extended family members and extended community networks. Most people simply have no clue about the myriad of challenges that living […]
A broken pool gate cost a life
Journalist Barbara Messer contacted the Samuel Morris Foundation looking to write a story on a child drowning. Karen George showed great courage in being willing to share her story about the tragic events surrounding the near drowning, hospitalisation and subsequent death of her son Kaine. Kaine’s story and that of the George Family appeared in […]
Worrying trend in near drownings
The NSW Ambulance service has made a number of releases recently in their drive to improve drowning awareness and prevention. Back in December we posted an update on NSW Ambulance responses to near drownings. If the figures in that post shocked you…….. Then the latest update on the NSW Ambulance responses to drowning or near […]
