by Daniel Corrin | Oct 24, 2011 | Community Events & Programs
Help bring Head Strong $35,000 closer to helping Brain Injury survivors with their education costs. Zehr Insurance Brokers Ltd has nominated Head Strong, a brain injury awareness campaign, as an idea in the Aviva Community Fund Challenge to receive $35,000 that will...
by Daniel Corrin | Sep 9, 2011 | Community Events & Programs
Date: February 15-17, 2012, Location: Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre in Vancouver, BC Satellite Conferences held simultaneously in Victoria and Kamloops, BC. The Annual Pacific Coast Brain Inury Conference will return February 15-17, 2012. The theme for 2012 is: Real...
by Daniel Corrin | Aug 11, 2011 | Community Events & Programs, Living with Brain Injury
G.F. Strong hosts a number of workshops for suvivors of brain injury and stroke, their family and friends. These workshops provide an open, informal forum in which to discuss and learn about the brain, how it works, and its recovery. Attendees concerns, questions and...
by Daniel Corrin | Jul 18, 2011 | Community Events & Programs, Living with Brain Injury
The Brain Injury Association of America authors a quarterly publication, THE Challenge!, which offers readers advice, support and guidance for those who have sustained a traumatic brain injury and their families. The latest issue of THE Challenge! features several...
by Barbara Webster-Evans | Jul 13, 2011 | Community Events & Programs, News & Research
SickKids Centre for Brain & Behaviour 2nd Biennial Conference – Brain Injury in Children July 12 – 14, 2011 – Toronto, Canada Day one of the conference was dedicated to a review of issues relating to birth injury and neonatal encephalopathy. We had...
by Daniel Corrin | Jul 4, 2011 | Community Events & Programs
Brain injury survivor David McGuire is running a marathon a day across Canada to raise awareness of brain injury. The New Westminister native sustained a brain injury in 2005 and, although he was told that he may never walk again, David completed his first marathon a...
