The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has partnered with MedicAlert Foundation Canada to better assist officers with their interactions with vulnerable persons. Watch the Video MedicAlert Information Handout Connect Protect: MedicAlert and Smith Falls, Brockville and Gananoque www.medicalert.ca/braininjury Brain Injury Canada has partnered with MedicAlert to bring support
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://braininjuryhelp.ca/2019/03/connect-protect-and-medicalert/" align="left"]When Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), Addictions and/or Mental Health Overlap The Southeastern Ontario (SEO) ABI (Acquired Brain Injury) and Addictions/Mental Health Collaborative is a group of service providers who meet monthly to hear about people who meet specified criteria and are believed to be at risk. High Risk
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://braininjuryhelp.ca/2019/03/abi-addiction-mental-health-collaboratives/" align="left"]From KFLA Public Heath: Healthy Directions Newsletter: One in three adults in KFL&A has no dental coverage. What do you do if you need dental treatment but can’t afford it? Many adults in our community have difficulty accessing dental care, due to cost or other barriers. The following
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://braininjuryhelp.ca/2019/02/need-dental-treatment-in-but-cant-afford-it/" align="left"]Survival Tips for the Holidays On BrainLine.org Linda Arms gives her tips that she uses to prepare for the holiday season. “With an injured brain, the holiday season can burden us with more fatigue, more stress and perhaps some sad emotions. We may remember how our lives
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://braininjuryhelp.ca/2018/12/15-tips-for-surviving-and-enjoying-the-holidays-with-brain-injury/" align="left"]Location: St. Lawrence College Time: 830-4pm Speakers to be announced soon!
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://braininjuryhelp.ca/2017/03/save-date-annual-abi-conference-professionals-june-9th-2017/" align="left"]If you are looking to further develop your knowledge of brain injury, be sure to visit our presentations library on this site, which includes links to video presentations as well as slideshows to help bring your professional knowledge to the next level. In addition, the caregiver & survivor
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://braininjuryhelp.ca/2016/03/learn-video-links-site/" align="left"]What do Picton, Prescott, Northbrook, Sharbot Lake, Bancroft, Westport, Trenton and Smiths Falls all have in common? Community Brain Talks!
We will be gathering in 8 communities across Southeastern Ontario for an evening of learning and discussion through the late summer and early fall. These events are free and open to all members of the public
For those of you who might not have been in the know, June is Brain Injury Awareness Month. There are a host of activities rolling out across Southeastern Ontario and beyond, and I thought it would help to showcase a few of them with you.
[read_more text="Read more" title="Read more" url="https://braininjuryhelp.ca/2012/05/do-you-know-what-happens-in-june/" align="left"]System Navigation invites community service providers and frontline staff to attend “Top 10 Challenges to Meeting Brain Injury Survivors’ Needs”. Brain injury doesn’t discriminate, and so the challenges of living with a brain injury can turn up in just about any place on earth. For community professionals trying to help people in their daily lives adding a brain injury into the mix can cause confusion and frustration for all involved.
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