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Brain Injury Online Peer Support Group – July 2022
The Brain Injury Association of Tasmania (BIAT) invites people with brain injury, their families and carers to attend the July 2022 online Brain Injury Peer Support Group. New members are welcome.
When: Wednesday,27 July 2022
Time: 11:00 – 12:30
Where: online via Zoom (you will receive the link to join the meeting once registered)
RSVP: Please click here to register to join the meeting
If you work with people impacted by brain injury, it would be appreciated if you could forward this information to any clients you think may be interested in attending.
July theme: support for carers
- Introducing our new Community Engagement Officer at BIAT, Doug Cooper
- Support for carers – guest speaker: Angela Smith, Care2Serve, Engagement Officer and Carer Coach.
Angela will be joining us to talk about support available for carers. In partnership with Care2Serve, we are hoping to organise a retreat for family members or friends caring for people with brain injury and would like to hear your ideas.** - Open discussion
** (For those who attended the face-to-face sessions, this will be a continued discussion from the previous meeting.)
If you are not able to attend the meeting but would be interested in the carers’ retreat, please contact BIAT for further information.
If you have not had the opportunity to attend a peer support group meeting before, please join us and see what it is about.
More Information
Please contact Sienna via:
Email: sienna@biat.org.au
Phone: 0458 242 829 / 1300 242 827
Peer support can be helpful in people’s journey towards recovery – for both the individual and their families. People who have ‘been there’ have knowledge and expertise based on their own lived experience. Sharing this knowledge can help others to understand their own experience and move forward.
The group is open to anyone who has been impacted by an acquired brain injury, including those caused by: stroke, falls, assault, concussion, road crash, infection, brain tumour, hypoxia (lack of oxygen to the brain), poisoning, and degenerative neurological conditions such as MS, etc.