Community support Worker
What do support services for survivors look like?
Our Cridge Brain Injury Support Workers provide life skills training and support services for individuals living with a brain injury. Support services are offered in-home and on a one-on-one basis, with a focus on building consistent, safe, and trusting helping relationships between survivors and support workers.
Brain injury support work is solutions and task-focused. Supports focus on identifying challenges with daily living and applying a variety of strategies and routines aimed at making daily living more manageable (less overwhelmed, more organized, for example).
What parts of daily living can a CSW help with?
Our Injury Support Workers aid survivors in redesigning their lives after brain injury and helping to make tasks that feel difficult, more manageable.
Our Injury Support Workers and survivors work together to find new tools to help with household management, medical appointments (finding and accessing health care), phone calls and meetings, organization and memory (calendars, scheduling), completing forms and help to navigate systems (PWD, taxes, Pension).
Disclaimer: We cannot offer emergency and crisis support, although we can help with creating a plan for accessing help in times of need when a Injury Support Worker is not available.
We work closely with and connect survivors to other potential support needs around mental health, addictions, housing, and medical needs.
How do I apply for this type of support?
- Full name
- BC Care Card or BC Services Card
- Date of birth
- Home address
- Contact information of close relative/friend
We acknowledge with respect that this is the traditional territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən -speaking peoples, known today as the Songhees First Nation, Xwsepsəm First Nation, as well as the WSÁNEĆ Nations and Sc’ianew First Nation, original caretakers of this land. As they continue walking here gently in the way of their ancestors, we seek to do the same.
We recognize that reconciliation is not only about the past, but about how we live together today. As a Christian faith-based organization, we commit to ongoing learning, listening, and acting in ways that uphold Indigenous self-determination and dignity, and reflect the biblical teachings of peace, justice, and love.
