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Because your voice matters.

Now What? Journeying Through Community Reintegration After a Brain Injury

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November 15, 2017 @ 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Free

An interactive morning of education and discussion.

From concussion to stroke, acquired brain injury changes lives. People with acquired brain injuries face significant transitions, from hospital to home or from who they were to who they are now. These transitions have a huge impact on the everyday lives of survivors, as well as their family and friends.

Join the discussion, learn what reintegration of the “new normal” means, identify the gaps in services and be the change that you would like to see by forming alliances with people with lived experience, as well as health care and service providers.

Registration and refreshments at 0830. Opening remarks at 0900.

Speakers

People with Lived Experience

  • Trevor and Debbie Greene
  • Bill McCracken
  • Erin Hemmens

Health Care and Service Providers

  • Wendy Johnstone (Gerontologist)
  • Briar Shaw (Occupational Therapist)

Details

Venue

Oliver Woods Recreation Centre
6000 Oliver Road
Nanaimo, BC V9T 6G6 Canada
Phone
250.756.5200

Organizer

Nanaimo Brain Injury Society
Phone
250.753.5600
Email
info@nbis.ca
View Organizer Website

From Our Community

Karla Warkotsch

Patient Experience Consultant – Interior Health

Karla Warkotsch

The question I like to ask health care employees is ‘Who is this for?’ and ‘Do we have the right people at the table?’ As a health care employee, I see how easy it is to fall into doing for, rather than doing with patients. The voices of the patient, family and caregiver are essential to ensure the patient is central to the direction and focus of the work being done.