Family Support Services

Brain injury affects families too.

An acquired brain injury can change a person’s abilities and the way that person relates to those around them. This often leaves family and friends with the difficult task of exploring their new roles and redefining their relationships. We provide counselling and support for family members and friends of brain injury survivors.

Case Management

One-on-one support for family, spouses/partners and caregivers of someone with an acquired brain injury.

Individual case management assists the family/friends to help a person with an acquired brain injury to maximize their rehabilitation potential and to live as independently as possible. It provides family and friends a private and more comprehensive opportunity to become further educated about the issues they and their loved one’s will be facing as a result of the brain injury. Although family members do not incur the injury, they are the ones often responsible for making a host of important decisions for their loved ones. Families always have many questions concerning their loved one’s further recovery, legal issues, financial issues, services and resources available and the long term implications of the injury.

Family Support Group

This is a support group for the family, partners, and friends of someone with acquired brain injury. It is an opportunity to get together to support each other, share information and common experiences, and learn that you aren't alone. Family and friends may find that the injured person is no longer the person they knew so well and may experience a profound sense of loss.  This support group allows family and friends to develop a community network as the issues the person with acquired brain injury and their family/friends are facing will last a lifetime.

Runs: Mondays,  7:00 p.m.

Sign up: Drop-in, everyone welcome!

Victoria General Hospital Family Support Group

This support group is meant to educate family and friends of someone with an acquired brain injury who is currently a patient in the ICU or the Acute Neuro Ward. It is an opportunity to support one another and share information. This group is held at VGH in the Neuro Unit. Please check in with the Neuro Unit social worker, who can be found on the 6th floor, south tower.

Runs: Thursdays, 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Coping Skills for Families

This 20-week course is offered to family members of those who have sustained an acquired brain injury. Participants work with each other and the facilitator to increase their knowledge of acquired brain injury, explore strategies that might be helpful when interacting with those who have a brain injury and to learn how a brain injury impacts the individual and the family.

Runs: Not Currently Running