Workshop on Brain Injury & Homelessness: Resources Available

In collaboration with COTA Health and the City of Toronto, Homelessness Partnership Initiatives, the Toronto ABI Network hosted an education workshop on June 2, 2009 aimed at increasing the level of awareness about brain injury among those who work with homeless individuals.

Resources from this workshop are available online.

(Posted June 3, 2009)

Alliance for Action on Brain Injury

The Toronto ABI Network is one of five organizations involved in the Alliance for Action on Brain Injury. The purpose of the Alliance is to create public awareness of the scope of the challenges of brain injury.

The Alliance offers the provincial government with the combined expertise of the five agencies and their many hundreds of contacts to look at cost-effective ways to improve services to people living with the effects of ABI.

Please visit the Alliance website at www.see-us.ca where you can subscribe to the newsletter and view the four video vignettes on the site that emphasize the misunderstanding of ABI because of its invisibility. These have been running as Public Service Announcements on television.

In addition, you may use the online form to send a letter to your MPP about the importance of brain injury awareness. The form is easy to use: you just enter your postal code and the form will automatically add the name of your MPP. All you have to do is press the send button to email the letter. Please take a minute and inform your MPP about the value of brain injury awareness.

LINK >> www.see-us.ca

(Posted November 10, 2008)