Please find attached registration information for the educational training course “Brain Basics” presented by the Ontario Brain Injury Association.  Please forward to your network - this course is ideal for health providers, caregivers and people with lived experience with acquired brain injury. 

Brain Basics:  A Training Program for Health Care Workers and Caregivers of Acquired Brain Injury  -  March 6th and 7th , 2018    Orangeville ON

Registration deadline is February 20, 2018

The Ontario Brain Injury Association (OBIA) and the Headwaters Acquired Brain Injury Group (volunteer group affiliated with OBIA) would like to invite you to an exciting continuing education event for health care workers, caregivers / family members, and individuals with lived experience with acquired brain injury.  This training course will be presented by John Kumpf, former executive director of the Ontario Brain Injury Association.  A certificate of completion will be provided to all persons who successfully complete the program.  Don't miss this opportunity to receive the latest information and training in acquired brain injury - without having to travel outside of the Headwaters region (the course will be presented at the Dufferin Child and Family Services building in Orangeville). 

Goals of the program:

• acquisition of practical strategies to work effectively with individuals living with the effects of abi
• understand the roles of the various people who form the team responsible for the recovery and well-being of the person with an abi
• appreciate the consequences of an acquired brain injury
• appreciate the complexity of the structure and function of the brain
• survivors and caregivers will share their personal stories during a panel discussion on the second day

Over 3000 people have taken the Brain Basics Training to date  - here is what they are saying about it...

“The Brain Basics Course was presented in a way that made it understandable. It was very helpful to those who came in with little medical understanding. Lots of anecdotes really help!”

“This was the best Brain Basics Course ever! I find it to be a great way to raise awareness and knowledge. The instructor’s true passion shone through and it was very memorable. The course was very user-friendly and there was more than enough time for discussion”.

“The Brain Basics Course increased my confidence in my ability to work with clients who have a brain injury. Knowing the physiological, psychological impairments are an asset. I am less fearful of saying or doing the wrong thing”.

“After taking the Brain Basics course, I now have a better understanding of some of our client’s behaviours and have the confidence of dealing with behaviours of all sorts”.

“The Instructor for the course was amazing! Very interesting, dynamic, encouraged questions, interactions, reflections and was extremely knowledgeable. This was an amazing course”!

“The information presented in the course was concise and was very easy to understand and process. Could not have been done a better way”!