View Royal Grant-in-Aid Written Summary of Request - Case Management & Outreach for Brain Injury Survivors

View Royal Grant-in-Aid

Written Summary of Request

Project/Event/Program Name & Description: Case Management & Outreach for Brain Injury Survivors

Case Managers work with brain injury survivors to develop critical life skills and overcome obstacles associated with their injury, as well as act as an advocate to facilitate access to housing, employment, and financial services, and work on any anxieties and cognitive challenges the survivor has in relation to accessing those services.

Our support often must start at the very beginning, relearning basic life and social skills that are so critical to daily functioning in the outside community, whether an individual is seeking employment, speaking with potential landlords or meeting with a financial advisor. The development of these life skills, many of which are lost when an individual experiences a brain injury, will empower the individual to eventually return to a new normal standard of living.

Grant amount applied for: $3,000

% of program budget: 5%

Your Organization’s Objectives and Services

Describe your organization’s mission statement and how your services meet them:

Whether caused by concussion, tumor, trauma, stroke, etc, brain injury has a severe impact on a person’s life. Victoria Brain Injury Society (VBIS) provides services to brain injury survivors who typically have no other place to go in order to receive the care and support they desperately require.

VBIS provides programs, individual and group support, education and advocacy to brain injury survivors and their families. Survivors often experience severe cognitive challenges as well as social isolation, discrimination and exclusion and often have difficulty gaining access to crucial social supports. Our dedicated staff and passionate volunteers welcome survivors into our safe, inclusive environment and give them the support they need in order to avoid the more severe consequences associated with brain injury, including family break-up, addiction, poverty and homelessness.