Primrose Family Support Services (Primrose FSS) is a disability support service for parents, teenagers and expecting parents with a disability.
We provide a growing range of services to support disabled parents and their families to reach their full potential.
We strongly believe:
In the social model of disability which identifies systemic barriers, derogatory attitudes, and social exclusion (intentional or inadvertent) make it difficult or impossible for disabled people to function in their chosen activities.
Disabled parents deserve the same treatment and respect as non-disabled parents.
All families, however you define them, are welcome at Primrose FSS.
Disabled people are worthy of love, intimacy and respect.
Meet the founder.
Kate Toholka is a disabled mum of two (mostly) delightful humans, Pippa (6) and Huey (4). Equipped with hearing aids thanks to a little thing called meningitis, Kate has navigated living with a disability since being a child and her life experiences have drawn her to work in the disability sector.
Kate has extensive experience of the disability sector, including working with those who have psychosocial disabilities. An NDIS participant herself, she has also worked for NDIA and for NDIS providers, enabling Kate to have a very well rounded experience of NDIS.
A passionate disability advocate, Kate was the Chair of the Surf Coast Shire's All Abilities Advisory Committee before uprooting her family from Torquay, travelled Australia in a caravan for 6 months and resettled into the much sunnier Port Macquarie.
Primrose FSS was established in response to the success of Disabled Mums - an online support group for disabled parents. This was born out of the difficulty of finding supports for disabled parents and seeing firsthand the challenges and prejudice disabled parents face daily.
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Join our team
We are looking to expand our service by offering multiple supports for families, including allied health for adults and children, prenatal/postnatal care, counselling, relationship and intimacy support, parenting courses. Please express your interest by submitting the form below.