When our founder, Dean Jefferson, watched his partner navigate life after a spinal cord injury, he saw how hard it was to find care that felt genuinely human. Workers changed constantly. Communication broke down. The people meant to help often didn’t really know the person in front of them.

Im With You was started in 2023 to do it differently. Today we support adults across Australia to live the lives they choose, with a team that knows them, listens to them, and stays.

What the work looks like

One of the people we support, a man living with a spinal cord injury, kept his distance from new support workers when he first joined us. It would have been easy to keep rotating staff until something stuck. Instead, our team stayed steady, kept him safe behind the scenes, and let trust build at his pace.

Now he welcomes joint training shifts, gives feedback on the workers who support him, and is planning a trip to see his mother. None of that happened through pressure. It happened because a team showed up, consistently, and treated him as the expert in his own life.

That’s the work we do every day. Much of it is complex: people living with psychosocial disability, physical disability, intellectual disability and autism, often more than one at once. It asks a lot of you, and it matters enormously.