Important Happenings!
Our email is back up and running! Thank you for your patience and understanding.
You may now reach us at info@nullbrainstreams.ca.
Blind Sighted by Anne Mok
“I’m a digital storyteller seeking beauty with purpose and inspiration to the visually impaired community to make the view accessible.”
In her TEDxSFU talk, Blind Sighted, Anne takes viewers on a 17-minute journey, sharing her inspirational and courageous journey of growing up in two different cultures and not feeling a sense of belonging in either. Moreover, Anne articulates coming to terms with chronic illness while reflecting on her Asian identity and vision loss.
Click here to read our blog about Anne and for a link to her TEDxSFU presentation.
Help Us to Grow in 2023
Become a Monthly Donor
Brainstreams is fueled by the BC Brain Injury Association (BCBIA). BCBIA is a registered charity and relies solely on funding through grants and donations.
Our efforts are focused on assisting individuals living with an acquired brain injury and their families, friends, and caregivers to navigate the system, share inspirational stories, and to provide advocacy when and where it is needed. We are also the hub for information on provincial resources, educational events, and connecting people to services in, or near, their community. It’s a big job and it’s growing.
To help us grow and to support us in our ongoing work, we are seeking monthly donations for 2023. Any amount per month will make a difference.
Thank you in advance for your generous and thoughtful contribution.
BC Brain Injury Association Advocates for Supports for Crash Victims
The BCBIA continues to monitor, advocate and is looking at means to access appropriate levels of support for crash victims.
If you or a loved one are facing similar challenges please feel free to contact us at: info@nullbrainstreams.ca.
News Related Articles
https://globalnews.ca/news/8969336/icbc-no-fault-insurance-legal-challenge/
https://globalnews.ca/news/8773809/icbc-no-fault-insurance-bc-woman/
https://www.cheknews.ca/car-crash-victims-call-icbc-no-fault-insurance-unfair-and-confusing-1057538/
ICBC Coverage Concerns Regarding The Enhanced Care Model
The Cridge Centre for the Family Brain Injury Program and the BC Brain Injury Association is most concerned in regard to the issues raised in this article. Innocent crash victims must be fully protected and compensated by ICBC and its Enhanced Care Model. The BCBIA will be bringing this story forward to appropriate authorities at ICBC and those others concerned about the Enhanced Care Model.
Should you or those within your network experience similar, perceived unfair treatment or support from the ICBC Enhanced Care Model, please let us know. Send concerns or issues to: Geoff Sing care of – info@nullbrainstreams.ca.
Click here to read the full article on Jess Holland-Roy’s crash and the challenges he is experiencing with ICBC.
ICBC Video Series
To read our blog post and to view the four-part video series funded by ICBC on the Enhanced Care Model, click here.
The BC Brain Injury Association (BCBIA) Celebrates 40 Years of Service & Forms a Strategic Alliance with the CGB Centre for Traumatic Life Losses
Brainstreams.ca is the official website of the BC Brain Injury Association (BCBIA). We are excited to announce fourty years of service in British Columbia. BCBIA was founded in 1982 and incorporated in 1983.
Throughout the years, BCBIA has been the voice of the brain injury community, evolving from providing direct services to joining forces with the Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference Society (PCBICS) in 2012, to becoming the provincial resource for online education and networking through Brainstreams.ca.
BCBIA is evolving again. We have formalized a Strategic Alliance with the Constable Gerald Breese Centre for Traumatic Life Losses (CGB) under the leadership of Janelle Breese Biagioni.
For more information on our milestone and the newly formed alliance, check out our blog.
The Journey Ahead
We are pleased to announce a new section of Brainstreams called The Journey Ahead. This project was generously funded by ICBC.
This section is for survivors, family members, friends, and caregivers to learn about brain injury, what it entails, to find suitable and appropriate supports, and to provide information about additional services, funding sources, and other community resources.
Please check out The Journey Ahead and let us know what you think.
Featured Resources and Learning
Actor Bruce Willis Diagnosed with Aphasia
In March 2022, Bruce Willis’ family announced on social media that he is stepping away from a long career as an actor following a diagnosis of aphasia. Willis’ family, in the past, had made comments on the actor’s memory challenges. The Los Angeles Times reported that in recent years, accommodations were made on film sets because of these struggles.
To read the full blog post click here.
Cultivating Community is Cultivating Kindness
BCBIA was pleased to release a new video on an amazing garden project in Langley at it's AGM on September 15th. The video features the Kreiter family and demonstrates the amazing benefits of creating community.
Cultivating Kindness is the story behind Opportunity Landing, a non-profit society dedicated to developing and maintaining a space for inclusive, accessible community gardens in Langley BC.
To read the full blog post and to watch this beautiful video, click here.
The Faces of Brain Injury
Behind every brain injury diagnosis is a real person. We are pleased to share The Faces of Brain Injury, a series of digital posters sharing a brief snapshot into the lives of brain injury survivors.
To learn more about this project, click here.