Workplace Injuries
A serious, life-altering workplace injury affects your whole life. Your work life, personal life, and the lives of your friends and family members.
A workplace injury changes everything
- You may feel like you’re navigating without a map or a compass
- Can affect multiple areas of your life, including all aspects of your well-being
- Can be a lot to juggle as a caregiver supporting a loved one through recovery, rehab and life-management, all while managing your own self-care.
Support after a serious workplace injury
Threads of Life’s programs and services are available for both the injured worker and their family and loved ones. If you’d like to learn more about our programs, start by telling us more about you. Our staff will follow up to learn how we can help.
Adapting to a life after a workplace injury
You’re now charting a new path as you adapt to the various life changes since your injury, and managing new challenges as they emerge. There is no doubt that it is a lot. If you’re caring for others, as a parent, partner, or friend, you’re also supporting them through the changes brought upon by the injury.
Processes and systems
A life-altering workplace injury often inserts you into a variety of processes and systems involved with your health care plan for your recovery and rehabilitation, investigations and legal, financial and employment considerations. These experiences can feel overwhelming when you’re already managing so much, but help is available.
Legal and Financial Considerations
Where to find legal and financial help after a workplace incident.
Legal/financialYou don’t have to do this alone
Whether your injury is visible to others or not, the emotional toll is significant. Anger, frustration, sadness, and guilt are all common experiences after a workplace injury. You are grieving the life you lost.
Helping others
You may also feel called to help others – by sharing your experience, or by actively supporting someone else who’s struggling through the earlier stages of healing you’ve already been through.
Getting support
If you’re living with a life-altering workplace injury, you can get support from the Threads of Life community. Our volunteers and staff understand what you’re going through and can provide you with guidance and compassion, whether the injury is recent, or happened several years ago.
Connect with others who ‘get it’
You can connect one-on-one with a trained listener with similar experience. You can also join virtual workshops or in-person events to gain practical information and make community connections.
Let’s connect.
Are you ready to learn more about how we can help you? Start by attending an introductory webinar, then select the program that best meets your needs.
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