Brain Injury Survivors Support

Condition Specific Support, Disability Services, and Youth Services

Provided by Victoria Brain Injury Society

Provides support programs for brain injury survivors and their families.
The following programs are offered:
  • Family Support: Offers a range of services to family, friends & loved ones to help reduce stress, improve understanding, and answer vital questions.
  • Individual Support: Speak with a case manager who can help act as a wayfinder, provide educational resources, and support survivors as they navigate life after.
  • Peer Support: Connect with volunteers who have experienced concussion or brain injury themselves, are trained to support new members, and can refer survivors to useful community resources.
  • Equine Assisted Learning: A learner-based educational experience with horses as teachers. EAL is a life-skills program that encourages individual and team growth. Each week, participants work in teams and engage in objectively driven ground exercises with a horse.
  • Creative Arts and Movement: Learn more about alternative methods of rehabilitation by joining one of our creative arts or movement programs. Offerings include visual art, yoga, music, mindfulness, & a walking group.
  • Courses: Learn more about brain function, brain injury, and coping strategies by enrolling in one of our free courses for survivors, friends & family, caretakers, and members of the community.
  • LIFT Youth Program: A youth support group for those ages 18-25 who are living with an acquired brain injury. This is a free drop-in support group for those who are seeking support, resources, and education regarding living with a brain injury; inclusion of mental health & wellbeing activities, creative arts, peer-led discussion, etc. The intention of this group is to provide a safe, inclusive, and comfortable space for people ages 18-25 living with a brain injury to communicate, collaborate, and build connections with other BI Survivors.


Referral Details: Clients can be self-referred or referred by a support agency to our organization. The services are all offered free of charge and no medical documentation of a brain injury is required.

250-598-9339

Public email: admin@vbis.ca

Website: https://vbis.ca/

830 Pembroke Street, Victoria, British Columbia

Service is available in English.

Cost: No cost

Referral options:

  • Self-referral
  • Support Agency referral
Availability

Service area: Victoria + show cities

Service area cities: Victoria

Service Types Provided
Condition Specific Support
Disability Services
Youth Services
Ways to Access
  • Provided 1:1 in-person
  • Provided in a group in-person

The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.

Pathways does not provide medical advice. If you have an emergency please call 9-1-1. If you require assistance navigating services please call 8-1-1.

For general inquiries or for assistance, please email us:

community-services@pathwaysbc.ca

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