Heart Support Australia
ACT Branch Meetings
are held monthly at
ACROD House,
corner of Thesiger and Denison Streets,
Deakin.
Heart Support - Australia Ltd (HS-A) is a National, Volunteer, not-for-profit support organisation providing Support Information and Encouragement for people with a heart condition and their families.
HS-A also provides, in collaboration with health professionals and affiliated organisations, an organised approach to the enhancement of quality of life for the more than 2 million Australians and their families affected by cardiovascular disease.
HS-A is committed to the establishment of self-help management programs and the adoption of nationwide information and rehabilitation initiatives for people with a heart condition.
Our motto "Support - Information - Encouragement" is exemplified in the services provided by HS-A trained Heart Health Support Service Member, all of whom are heart patients themselves.
Heart Support-Australia is the only national heart support organisation of its kind in Australia. HS-A provides, in collaboration with medical practitioners, allied health professionals and community organisations, an organised approach to the enhancement of quality of life for the more than 2 million Australians and their families affected by cardiovascular disease and heart conditions.
HS-A is a national, volunteer, not-for-profit organisation committed to the establishment of self-help management programs and the adoption of nationwide information and rehabilitation initiatives for people with a heart condition.
Our motto "Support - Information - Encouragement" is exemplified in the services provided by our Heart Health Support Service, who offer a free of charge support service for heart patients and their families (not conditional upon membership). The organisation has branches throughout Australia.
HS-A is primarily a service provider and not a fund raising organisation. However, all HS-A branches raise funds as they see necessary for the maintenance of their branch and assistance with their community service activities. Funds acquired by the National Office cover the administrative costs associated with projects undertaken by the Office and the overall administration of branches.
Heart Support Australia would like to thank the Federal Department of Health and Ageing for the funding providing through their department for the National Secretariat. This annual funding enables National Office to assist the many branches operating around Australia.
HSA Membership Application
There are two types of HS-membership available...
Ordinary and Associate.
Ordinary membership is open to all persons who have undergone heart surgery or who have a diagnosed heart condition, or who are the spouse/partner or parent/guardian (if they are a child). Associate membership is open to all others - relatives, friends, health professionals and interested persons.
HS-A is the only national organisation of its kind in Australia and the only organisation having such wide membership coverage.
The support and other services offered by HS-A are provided as a free-of-charge community service, and are not conditional upon membership of the organisation.
Click on the forms below.
They are suitable for sending to us by
Fax:
(02) 6280 7377
Email:
Post:
Unit 7b 52 Wollongong Street
Fyshwick ACT 2609.
Ordinary Membership Form ($11)
Associate Membership Form ($5.50)
Information for
Patients and their Families.
We know that being diagnosed with a heart condition, or having a family member diagnosed, can be an isolating experience, but it doesn't have to be? How do we know? Because we've been there!!
Within the Heart Support Australia entity, we have specially trained members who are part of our Heart Health Support Service. These members have been trained as Heart Heart Support Service officers who have all experienced the trauma associated with having a heart condition; either as a patient, a spouse/partner, or as a parent of a child.
Talking to a Heart Health Support Service member is about sharing the thoughts, emotions and fears that you think no-one else will understand. And being a member of HS-A will introduce you to a supportive, positive and motivated group of people who will show you that you're not alone in your experience. One thing our Heart Health Support Service member does not do, is offer advice of a medical nature. If you would like to find out information about diet, medicines and other issues of a medical nature, you can access this at Australian Government - Health Insite
Donating to Heart Support Australia
Heart Support Australia Limited has been operating for 20 years, providing free of charge services to communities all over Australia including:
- Support Information and Counselling to those persons contemplating or recovering from cardiac surgery or who suffer from heart disease or heart defects.
- Support to the spouses, carers and families of such persons.
- Assisting with the provision of local and national rehabilitation and self management programs.
- Disseminating information and educating such cardiac patients.
- Providing consultative arrangements for consumer input for Government and non Government policy, Councils, Advisory Panels and Forums.
- Establishing branches, regions and state or territory executives in Australian States , Territories and Protectorates.
- Raising funds in support of the company and to make available funds for cardiothoracic surgical units, coronary care units and cardiac research at branch level.
As the incidents of heart disease increases, the necessity for an organisation such as Heart Support Australia also increases.
We require more resources which means we require more funds.
For the first time in twenty years, we are actively seeking the assistance of all Australians to help us with our organisation.
While research into heart disease continues and many funds are utilized to assist in this research, people all around the country continue to experience heart events and this is where Heart Support Australia comes in. We are there for you because we have been there ourselves. We are there for you now and into the future, to assist the more than 2 million Australians who suffer from the effects of heart disease.
If you would like to make a donation to assist us, please click here to download the Donation Form, and send your donation to:
HEART SUPPORT AUSTRALIA LIMITED
Unit 7B, 52 Wollongong Street
Fyshwick ACT 2609
Your donation will go towards the following projects and activities:
- Developing more Walking Programs throughout Australia
- Training Heart Health Support Workers in counselling skills to enable them to provide accurate information, encouragement and support to cardiac patients
- Self Management training to assist in reducing the risk of further heart events.
- Hospital visitations to provide further information to heart patients and their carers and families.
- Development, production and distribution of self care programs for distribution to Cardiac Rehabilitation programs and to rural and remote communities.
- Exercise classes
- Providing advanced cardiac support to rural and remote communities.
Heart Support Australia - ACT
Address:
PO Box 717
Mawson ACT 2607
Branch Meetings:
ACT Branch Meetings are held monthly at ACROD House,
corner of Thesiger and Denison Streets, Deakin.
Visitors and new members welcome.
For further information, contact Mary Hearn on 6299 4187
Canberra Community Support Website