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Our Support Services

Huntington’s NSW ACT offers four types of support services including NDIS Support Coordination, Youth Services, Therapy Services, and Support Groups. Please click on the links below, or scroll further down the page to search by audience, location or type of support.

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Online Carers Support Group

Carers, Family & Friends
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This is a facilitated group for people who are caring for a partner, family member or friend with HD.
Places are limited to 8 therefore RSVPs are essential.
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ACT Support group

Carers, Family & Friends, People Living with HD, Professionals
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This group is in a transition stage. Seeking interest.
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Wollongong 36+ Support Group

People Living with HD, Professionals
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This is a facilitated group for people with HD living in the Illawarra Shoalhaven area.
This group is online due to the latest COVID outbreak.
1st Monday of the month.
Registration is essential.
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Port Macquarie Family Support Group

Carers, Family & Friends, People Living with HD
Calendar of events
This group is in a transition stage. Seeking interest.
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Orange Family Support Group

Carers, Family & Friends, People Living with HD, Professionals
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This is a self-managed group for anyone connected to a person living with HD in the Orange area.
Meeting in person once again!
1st Saturday of the month.
Registration is essential.
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West Ryde Carer Support Group

Carers, Family & Friends
Calendar of events
This group is in a transition stage. Seeking interest.
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Featured Resource Library Articles

A Caregiver’s Handbook for Advanced-Stage Huntington Disease – Pollard, J. (ed.) 1999
The aim of this book is to familiarise carers with Huntington's disease, so that they can recognise its symptoms and know what to expect as it progresses.
It also includes general principles of care and tips that other carers have found useful.
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Isolation tips and support for young people and their families 
WORDS AMY HALE
As everything changes around us day by day, in ways most of us have never experienced before, we are feeling a lot of uncertainty – in our own lives, for our families, friends and for the world in general. In a situation like this, both the known and the unknown can cause increased levels of worry and stress, especially for those in families affected by Huntington’s disease who are already coping with a lot.
Access our Youth Connection counselling services.
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I’m a carer and I need a break…
WORDS GISELLE BEAUMONT
Carer respite is not covered in the NDIS. What words do I need to use when talking to the NDIS planner so that I can get some respite to help me to continue my caring role.
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