Welcome to the first episode of the My Social Support Network podcast, a series to guide you along your path to recovery while on Worker’s Compensation.
My Social Support Network podcast was developed to guide injured workers, their families, health staff, workplaces, and insurers on how to support people along their path to recovery whilst on Worker’s Compensation.
In this series we answer questions and provide information from experts and people with lived experience currently going through Workers Compensation. Most importantly, we are speaking to those who are either making their way or have made their way to the other side.
Our goal through these interactions is to give people the tools, advice, but most importantly encouragement on what can be a stressful process after an injury is sustained at work.
Listen now to the very first podcast ever produced for injured workers by injured workers!
Episode Summary: In this episode we get to meet My Social Support Networks Founder, Caroline Howe. We learn of the inspiration Caroline had which kick started My Social Support Network.
Caroline also explains how the workers compensation scheme should work.
Guests: Luke an MSSN member.
Host: Abe
Bio: Caroline is a global leader of the Social Recovery Movement for people with injury, illness or disability. Through her work and international research she has created the specialist programs within My Social Support Network (MSSN).
MSSN is a network that has created an opportunity for people who are isolated, lonely and distressed to become socially connected, productive, healthier and happier starting from the safety of home back to community and work.
Previously Caroline led the development and design of the icare research team as Head of Research where she developed a social connections theory for workers compensation insurance. Caroline brings to the world of business her long standing knowledge of Psychosocial Safety Systems essential to facilitating change for better workplaces.
Her initiative in outcome focused workplace rehabilitation in insurance led to her to being awarded an Excellence in Industry Award for Innovation and Excellence in Personal Injury Management (2012) and in 2016 her business won a Workplace Excellence Award for Organisational Design.
