Kids on the coast

A $90,000 education program about how to prevent spinal cord injury, funded by Disability Services Queensland and run by the Spinal Injuries Association, has enlisted wheelchair bound volunteers to help spread the message to 80,000 school children. With the majority of Queenslanders who sustain a spinal cord injury aged 15-30 years, the program aims to get injury prevention and safety messages directly to the people in this high-risk age group. The top three causes of spinal cord injury are road trauma, falls or crushes, and water-related accidents.