Elba Incorporated is a founding member of the Spinal Cord Injury Support Network (SCISN).
The SCISN is a social network established for people with a spinal cord injury to socialise in a comfortable setting in a friendly wheelchair accessible environment.
Elba Incorporated is also the founder and administrator of the Disabled Artists W.A. website where artists with a disability can display, promote and market their artwork via the World Wide Web.
Elba Incorporated was established in 1990 when a group of Spinal Cord Injured patients were offered no option but to reside at the Quadriplegic Centre in Shenton Park. These patients decided to assert their independence and establish an agency where they were able to manage their own funding from the Commonwealth Government which later transferred to the Disability Services Commission of Western Australia.
Funding to establish Elba was granted after two years of lobbying government.
A part time co-ordinator was employed to run the agency and a management committee established from the membership.
Elba Incorporated is now widely regarded as a service provider of choice in the Western Australian Disabled Community.
The agency now has 7 fulltime administrative staff and approximatley 180 support workers in the field assisting our members to live a life of independance and dignity in thier own homes
