The former tradies redefining the disability sector with Aussie first support service

With a shared passion for helping others, best mates Jack Hall and Brandon Crocker have traded their high-vis and tools for a new set of skills.
The pair certainly don't fit the stereotype of disability support workers, but the former tradies and friends of 20 years are taking the sector by storm.
Hall's passion ignited when he left his construction career and began working with his first support client, Kent Druery.
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Jack Hall and Brandon Crocker have traded their high-vis and tools for a new set of skills. Nine
The ultra-fit father of two had been traveling the world and competing in triathlons when he was diagnosed with a brain abscess, leaving him unable to do anything independently.
"We just bonded, we got along so well," Hall said.
"My father passed away when I was 14 ...so I think for me, \I looked to Kent as a father."
Seeing the lack of male support in the industry, the boys launched Australia's first all-male disability support service KD Community - named after Kent Druery.
Kent Druery was an ultra-fit father before his brain abscess diagnosis. Nine
Currently servicing the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sydney, KD Community offers 24/7 personalised care and specialises in one-on-one support.
"We range from higher care participants who need bed, bathing, showering ... and then we go right into just companionship... and then community access," Crocker explained.
"The more men that need support, or the more boys that need support by male support workers, we'll just grow with that," Hall said.
"That's what we're all about, really just breaking that stigma," Hall said.
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