Brain Injury Canada / Lésion cérébrale Canada is a
Core Health Care Charity located in Ottawa, ON.
Services Provided by Brain Injury Canada / Lésion cérébrale Canada
The Brain Injury Association of Canada (BIAC) provides services such as Impact, the association's newsletter; awareness and partnerships among like-minded NPO organizations such as the Canadian Medical Association, Canadian Chiropractic Association, Neurological Health Charities Canada, March of Dimes Canada and others and provides brain injury awareness in particular among Mp's and a variety of other levels of government. The Association also maintains its social media sites (Twitter and Facebook) and its website to keep the community aware of Brain Injury services and knowledge across the country and globally. BIAC is also involved in a number of research projects touching a number of areas in brain injury research such as Girls, Women and ABI and research projects examining a variety of causes and rehabilitation of TBI survivors. BIAC continues to support injury prevention initiatives on a number of fronts as noted on the website; in particular, safe driving, concussion awareness and management and helmet use, etc. Most importantly, BIAC provides hope for survivors and caregivers when there seems to be little or no hope. This is done in many ways from directing a person to the appropriate grass-root organization; to providing where possible resources; to visit online.
