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    Sustainable Futures

    As a for-purpose organisation we have a social responsibility, not only to the members we serve, but to the community in which we all live. For individuals to flourish they need to live in communities that are doing the same.

    Our Responsibility

    Social accountability means being responsible for positive social change. For Spinal Cord Injuries Australia (SCIA) this means identifying the issues that prevent our communities from flourishing, establishing areas where we can have an impact, setting action steps as part of our strategic plan and measuring our impact against manageable targets.

    Social Impact Statement

    SCIA has aligned our key focus areas to the Paris Agreement United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that set a goal of sustainable development by 2030. Each of our four focus areas to the right aligns to one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

    Our Social Impact Statement represents a bi-annual commitment, with implementation beginning January 2024.

    Read our full Social Impact Statement here.

    Reconciliation

    Environmental Sustainability

    Diversity

    Flexibility

    Memberships

    We’re proud to support the below campaigns, which underpins the work that we do:

    Welcome Here Project

    As a proud member of ACON‘s Welcome Here Project, Spinal Cord Injuries Australia commits to fully supporting the project’s three core commitments: Visible, welcomed LGBTIQ communities...
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    Racism. It Stops With Me

    Spinal Cord Injuries Australia (SCIA) is proud to support the Racism. It Stops With Me campaign. Racism is more than just harmful words or individual...
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    SCIA is a member of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower network

    Hidden Disabilities

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    Reconciliation

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    SCIA is committed to an equitable Australia and recognises the importance and significant contribution of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples on whose lands we live and work.

    We are proud to have developed our Reflect and Innovate Reconciliation Action Plans (RAP), our formal commitment to Reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in 2021 and 2024.

    In October 2025, SCIA merged with Royal Rehab Group (RRG) resulting in changes to our governance and organisational structure and we are excited for the possibilities that this provides to collaborate on our Reconciliation Initiatives.

    Over the coming years we will work collaboratively with Royal Rehab Group to ensure that all our services are culturally safe and welcoming so that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples on whose lands we live and work.

    Read more about the Royal Rehab Group RAP

    Narration Through Optic

    In 2024 we were deeply humbled to work with First Nations artist Hunter Barnes to create Narration through Optic incorporating motifs with dual representations, drawing from traditional Aboriginal culture and beliefs while conveying SCIA’s message.

    Hunter is a proud Ngiyampaa man descendant of Jimmy Keewong and Kitty Nerange. He is well known for his realism oil paintings, portrait, and contemporary Aboriginal artwork as well as tattoo. We also launched our new Acknowledgement of Country developed by Dr Stacey Kim Coates.
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    Membership Partner

    As a proud member of ACON‘s Welcome Here Project, Spinal Cord Injuries Australia commits to fully supporting the project’s three core commitments:

    • Welcome and include LGBTIQ+ people
    • Create positive change in your local community
    • Celebrate LGBTIQ+ Diversity (see LGBTIQ Diversity Days Project)

    Visible, welcomed LGBTIQ communities mean safer communities, and by becoming a registered Welcoming Place, SCIA is helping to create a positive social change throughout Australia.

    Membership Partner

    Spinal Cord Injuries Australia (SCIA) is proud to support the Racism. It Stops With Me campaign. Racism is more than just harmful words or individual actions. It includes biases in our society, its laws, institutions and ways of thinking.

    SCIA is committed to learning more and taking action. Racial inequality affects all of us, whether directly or otherwise, and there is a role for us all to play in addressing it.

    This year, we are redoubling our commitment to anti-racism. We are committed to preventing racism by pledging to undertake activities in support of the campaign. Racism is never acceptable and we all have a responsibility to stand up against it. The campaign, which is being led by the Australian Human Rights Commission, has been developed by a partnership of government and non-government agencies.

    No matter how challenging the conversation, we need to talk about racism and the causes of inequality. By taking a stand against racism, we can build a fair and equal society – for all.

    Racism. It Stops With Me.

    The “Racism. It Stops With Me” campaign welcomes organisational and individual supporters. For more information about the campaign go to their website.

    Membership Partner

    SCIA is a member of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower network

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