Eva and her partner are raising two autistic boys and she knows what it is like to have no support at all or not have the right support in place. She understands the impact this has on the wellbeing of the whole family – mentally, physically and emotionally. She soon realised that finding the right services was basically a full-time job on top of managing and supporting her family.
Eva has been working as a support coordinator for the past two years and is now training to diversify her skills from support coordination into supporting participants with lasting behaviour change. Through Tanya Curtis and FABIC, Eva has seen how behaviour support can provide a participant and their family with lasting behaviour change. Each step and skill may be small but Eva realises the impact that each step has on the participant and their families’ lives, as in turning exhaustion and overwhelm into having the space to be settled and see the big picture. Through her experience in support coordination Eva has witnessed the lack of skilled professionals who can support participants through this process and now offers this service to those facing similar situations and would benefit from everything she has learnt to date. Small changes bring about big changes and Eva wants to support many more participants to achieve exactly that.
