Welcome to the Lifetime Support Authority (LSA) grants program!
The LSA manages the Lifetime Support Scheme (LSS), which was established to fund treatment, care and support services for people who have sustained serious injuries in motor vehicle accidents on South Australian roads, regardless of fault.
The purpose of the LSA’s Research, Education and Programs grants is ultimately to strengthen the quality of services provided to participants in the LSS and contribute to the body of knowledge in the disability and health sectors. The LSA is committed to driving innovation through Research, Education and Programs.
Grant Outcomes Summary
[ Overview coming soon ]
- Over 40 publications in peer reviewed journals
- Conference presentations around the world
- Proof-of-concept studies leading to the establishment of two post-concussion traumatic brain injury clinics
- Child and Adolescent Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service: Women’s and Children’s Hospital
- Concussion and Mild Brain Injury Clinic: Repatriation General Hospital
- Delivery of 25+ reconnect transition programs designed to connect individuals with traumatic brain injury with peer support mentors
- Delivery of peer support services to over 600 people with spinal cord injury, including 300 in regional South Australians
- RAA’s Street Smart Primary schools road safety education program where
- 24,000 primary school students from over 250 metropolitan and region schools participate in the
- Survival of a 95% total surface area burns victim who was involved in a clinical trial to develop a composite culture skin graft
- Development of a spinal cord injury ‘Managing pain after SCI: A resource guide for Participants’ and an ‘Outcome Measures Toolkit’ available to LSA Allied Health Service Providers
- National and international collaboration on the development of a conceptual ICF-10 taxonomic framework to elucidate the distribution and determinants of injury/disease across all phases of spinal cord injury.
- Expansion of immersion therapy program across the nation
- Dance therapy rehabilitation
Immersion Therapy Program
Dance Therapy Rehabilitation
The LSA continues to consider funding projects related to road trauma in three key focus areas:
- Improved outcomes for participants
- Effective and efficient service delivery
- Prevention of motor vehicle accidents and related injuries
Priorities within these focus areas include:
- Early treatments or interventions and rehabilitation
- Recovery and/or transition into the community for people with injuries
- Early mental health intervention
- Long term usage of medications of dependence
- Improvements in attendant care
- Home automation
- Alcohol and/or illicit drug dependence pre- and post-crash
- Access to service providers and sustainable planning and policy for those needing treatment, care and support
- Positive outcomes and wellbeing
- Post-injury vocation
- Prevention
- Contributing and casual factors to motor vehicle accidents in SA
- Reduction in the incidence and severity of road trauma
According to the LSA Strategy 2022–2026, we have a purpose to fund research, education and programs that will advance knowledge creation, innovation, capacity-building, and partnerships.
Programs centred in these key areas will ultimately lead to improvements in the social, health and economic networks that provide participant treatment, care and support to LSS participants.
Positive outcomes are achieved when an individual can successfully transition from acute injury phase to living life healthily and independently.
