Are you a family member or carer of someone who has an acquired brain injury (ABI) or disorder? Would you like to meet other people who also care for a person with ABI and share experiences? Then the Brain InjuryPeerLink Program is for you.
PeerLink is a peer support program where carers of people living with an acquired brain injury can talk together about the issues and challenges of being a carer. You can share strategies you have used to deal with these experiences.
Who is PeerLink for?
PeerLink is specifically designed for adult family members and carers of people with any ABI or disorder (for example brain injury caused by accidents or neurological conditions like Stroke, brain cancer and Multiple Sclerosis).
Meetings are:
· Face to face
· Held weekly for 5 consecutive weeks
· Confidential and in a supportive environment
· Run by people with lived experience of caring for someone with a brain injury/disorder
· FREE
· In Hobart on Tuesdays at 4pm starting 25th Sept 2018
· In Launceston on Tuesdays starting 30th Oct 2018
Interested?
To find out more and to register please contact Rosie Mooney: rosie@biat.org.au or 1300 242 827 or 03 6230 9800
Funding partners
The Brain Injury PeerLink program is a collaboration between the Brain Injury Association of Tasmania Inc. and TABIS – the Tasmanian Acquired Brain Injury Services Inc. We gratefully acknowledge the Tasmanian Community Fund for providing the grant to finance this project.
An update from the Brain Injury Association of Tasmania in response to COVID-19, including our arrangement of staff during this time and how to contact us.
View Article >The Brain Injury Association of Tasmania has postponed future scheduled events in line with Federal and State government requests to minimise the spread of the COVID-19 virus. We also request that people wishing to talk to BIAT do so via phone or email.
View Article >This month - The Hobart meeting will be a Joint Brain Injury and Stroke Peer Support Group. The Hobart and Launceston Groups have a guest speaker - Mark Lamont (retired clinical neuropsychologist). Mark has offered to come along and share with the group his insights into supporting people to move forward and also how neuroplasticity can support people in their recovery.
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