The in-house training arm of a Tauranga disability support service is being launched as a stand-alone company today - creating a one-stop shop for the local disability sector.
SwitchedOn has been operating as the training and assessment arm within SILC since 2005 but is being commissioned by the SILC Charitable Trust to operate independently so a wider group of individuals and organisations can access its services.
SwitchedOn general manager Richard Coad said his company would provide training programmes for those working with people with intellectual or physical disabilities.
The new company would provide a one-stop shop not previously available in the Tauranga area and would offer training programmes in specialty areas such as epilepsy, dementia, medication, specialised equipment, lifting/transferring and infection control.
Small-to-medium organisations in the Tauranga disability sector would be likely to access the training but it would also be open to family and carers of people who have had a life-changing accident or illness.