Hey! If you want to know a bit more about my story, and how Love2Live Support Services came to be, then you’re in the right place!
My name is Kristy Hodges. My mission for Love2Live is to work with clients and families to build quality relationships and connections that build enriched and meaningful lives.
Sawtell born and bred, I have a passion for life and my community and bring this zest for life to clients every day. Inspired by my love of life and a connection to community grassroots initiatives, I created Love2Live, a client support service that is based on connection and life experiences that supports clients and their families to live their best life.
I believe that it is essential to deliver care with professionalism, respect, dignity, and compassion, whilst also providing reliable and high-quality service. Positive and open communication is a must for me as well as focusing on a person-centred approach. By genuinely listening to clients and their families, I can support a positive journey towards achieving small daily triumphs and big life dreams and goals.
I have worked with a wide variety of needs, varying disabilities with their own complexities and with a plethora of ages and backgrounds. I have also worked in SIL, STA respite, therapy support, team leader roles, case management and Plan Management.
Love2Live encapsulates my passion for Disability, the care profession and Community Services and is my business baby. I continue to engage and participate in training and education to keep abreast of industry standards and changes in the sector and in policy and procedures.
I intend to keep Love2Live merely as a sole trader business owned, operated and worked by myself to create a personal and professional model of care that steers away from the formal and clinical model of big business within the NDIS sector.
I know what it is like to be a recipient of care and for this to be a necessity for my day-to-day living needs at more than one point in my life.
Being born with the genetic disease Cystic Fibrosis, I’ve experienced extended hospital visits that could last months at a time, parenting a child on my own whilst living with a chronic illness, the hospital system, and fighting for access to life-saving medication and transplant work up and listing. I also understand the mental, emotional and social struggles of illness and disability. I’m now out the other side so to speak, accessing 2 years ago the lifesaving medication Trikafta, and I am wanting to offer the depth of understanding and level of care I experienced, along with my extensive qualifications and industry experience.
“100% fully trust this beautiful human being. If you’re looking for support in the Coffs Harbour/Sawtell are, then you can’t go past Kristy”
— Emma Rhoades
Working with clients is more than a job, it’s my passion and inspiration.
It makes me smile every day and there is always a take-home for me that teaches me things about myself. My clients are constantly teaching me bravery, resilience, and determination and inspire me daily to live my best life. This stems back to my first experience of volunteering at the special needs class in high school and my work experience at the early childhood intervention centre in Coffs Harbour. Highlights in my day are seeing clients set goals for themselves and supporting them to achieve these goals, whatever these may be. “Smiles on Dials” are a must in this industry and seeing client’s personal successes is the reward in itself for a day’s work.
I have recently brought a camper van and in my spare time love camping and adventuring with my daughter embracing every day and Loving Life. I enjoy camping, and fishing, am an extremely passionate cook (owning a restaurant in Sawtell for 3 years), the beach, yoga, learning new things, arts and crafts, reading, and last summer had a few tentative attempts at returning to my beloved surfing. I have also volunteered for years with Surfing for the Disabled when the branch first started in Coffs Harbour, was Secretary of the Sawtell Boardriders, volunteered while at University in the AIME program (Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience), and sat on the committee of Make a Wish Foundation.
