Stroke Foundation Hamilton

To provide friendship and support in the Hamilton community for stroke people and their family/whanau by operating an active supportive peer support group who meet monthly to support their integration and socialization back into the community following a stroke. To provide a regular social lunch group which meets once a month to encourage socialization back into the community following a stroke. Empowering stroke people by encouraging them to run and govern the peer support themselves supported by a team of volunteers. Support their continued rehabilitation following a stroke with physiotherapy and speech language therapy at the peer support meetings. Visit members and other stroke people in their homes, rest homes, retirement villages and Hospitals for those unable to attend the peer Support groups. To complement and support the work of the National Salaried Community Stroke Navigator Service and the Hamilton Based CSN.