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Announcing our 100 members in less than 30 day’s milestone!

On April 15, 2009 Brain Injury Forum.com officially welcomed its 100th member in less than 30 days*.
We didn’t want this milestone to pass without sharing the exciting news with you. Your patronage means a great deal to us, and we recognize that our growth is due, in large part, to your interest and trust in our on-line virtual community’s purpose.

To date, Brain Injury Forum.com has reached out and connected locally with survivors, family members, advocates and other related professional. Our membership has connected individuals and families from the Provinces of British Columbia in the west to Nova Scotia in eastern Canada. It is also worthy of mention that, we have members from various states within the United States and from as far as the United Kingdom.

It is with our deepest appreciation that we take this moment and thank each and everyone who has made this milestone possible. To those who have contributed, and those yet to contribute, your interest and efforts have not gone unnoticed. We look forward to your continued support, and our virtual community connecting people, sharing their stories and offering support to so many across time and space.

We are a research group based at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. We are interested in how family members cope when a relative has had a brain injury, such as a head injury or a stroke. One of our interests relates to the expectations family members have for the recovery of their relative.

To look at this issue properly, we need to develop a questionnaire that assesses the expectations of the family member. We have developed a first version on the basis of a previous study we did about expectations; direct consultation with some family carers; and an existing questionnaire. We now need to evaluate this version of the questionnaire by getting a large number of family members to fill it in.

We would be very grateful if you could take some time to complete the questionnaire. The questionnaire is quite long, but your answers will help us to improve the questionnaire by, for example, reducing its length.

The questionnaire is meant for people who have (or expect to have in the future) a significant caring role for a family member who has had a brain injury within the last 12 months. If you do not fall into this category, thank you for your time but please do not submit your answers to us.

Please be assured that your confidentiality is guaranteed. We will not ask you to give your name or any other details that might make it easy to identify you. No one but ourselves will see the individual answers that you give. Because we won’t ask for your name, we will be unable to identify the person who has given these answers.

If you do not feel happy about answering the questions, please do not continue with the survey.

If the questionnaire raises concerns for you, you may contact your local Headway, Stroke Association or other similar organization, who should be able to address these concerns. You may also contact us, Andrew Brennan and Gerry Riley, Clinical Psychologists, via email at Andrew.Brennan@sbpct.nhs.uk or G.A.Riley@bham.ac.uk. We would also welcome your views if you have any general observations about the questionnaire.

If you would like a summary of the final research report, please send us an e-mail to request this.

Survey Link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BAkQOkS8ILAgJBrWBfT_2few_3d_3d

Dr. Andrew Brennan, Clinical Psychologist
Tel 0121 442 3448/3303

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You’re invited:
To: the Halifax Chapter BIANS General Meeting
For: survivors, family members, caregivers and interested individuals

Wednesday, April 22 at 7:00 pm
Room 1613 A and B, Veterans Memorial Building

The meeting will start with a chapter-wide plenary session focusing on Head On meetings and fundraising ideas. After the plenary session attendees are welcome to stay for a Head On meeting in 1613A and a Caregivers/Family Members meeting in 1613B. All are welcome! Tea and Coffee will be provided

For more information please contact Bev Butler Phone: 902-473-6472 or e-mail: DrBevButler@gmail.com

OTTAWA (April 6, 2009) – Dr. Alain Beaudet, President of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), along with CIHR’s Governing Council, announced last week the appointment of Dr. Anthony Phillips as incoming Scientific Director (SD) of CIHR’s Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (CIHR-INMHA). This appointment was effective April 1, 2009.

“Dr. Phillips is a welcome addition to the CIHR leadership team,” said Dr. Beaudet. “His accomplishments in neurosciences, psychopharmacology and mental health research and proven leadership make him the ideal candidate to take CIHR-INMHA forward.”
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From the Examiner

Vail Resorts announced on Monday that all employees will be required next season to wear a helmet while skiing or riding on the job at each of its five mountain resorts: Heavenly in the Lake Tahoe area and Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado. The company will provide approximately 6,500 helmets to employees who ski or ride as part of their job duties, according to Kelly Ladyga, vice president of corporate communications at Vail Resorts. The company overall has around 14,000 employees. About three-quarters of those employees are seasonal. According to Troy Hawks of the National Ski Areas Association, a trade association of 329 U.S. ski areas, Vail Resorts is the first organization member to his knowledge that has implemented such a rule for employees.
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By Kirstin Endemann, The Ottawa Citizen, April 4, 2009

For years, Sarah Chan, who loves stylish shoes and handbags, did not own a bicycle because she thought helmets looked stupid.

“Friends were trying to convince me to get a bike, but I did not want to have to get all this ugly gear to feel safe. I didn’t want to have to change my outfit, jacket, shoes,” says Chan, 28, who writes the popular blog, Girls and Bicycles, in a bid to encourage more women to bike for daily transportation.

“Then we found a helmet I could live with that’s cool.”
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