The Cridge Brain Injury Community Supports

Redesigning Lives to Achieve Maximum Potential

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The Cridge Brain Injury Services provides multiple innovative and client-directed programs to support brain injury survivors and their families through rehabilitation, reduced isolation, and education in the broader community.

What do support services for survivors look like?

The Cridge Brain Injury Support Worker (CSW) provides 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?

The Cridge Brain Injury Support Workers aid survivors in redesigning their lives after brain injury and helping to make tasks that feel difficult, more manageable.

CSWs 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 CSW 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?

The Cridge Centre for the Family is a subcontractor to Island Health Acquired Brain Injury Program.

If you think that you, a friend, or a family member may need support from the Acquired Brain Injury Program, call the Community Access Centre in your region.

Please have the following information with you for yourself or the person you are calling for:

Full name
BC Care Card or BC Services Card
Date of birth
Home address
Contact information of close relative/friend

A Community Access Clerk will return your call as soon as possible to arrange for an Intake Clinician to contact you (allow up to 72 hours).

Victoria Community Access Centre (South Island):

All communities south of Mill Bay, including Greater Victoria, the Southern Gulf Islands and west to Port Renfrew.
250-388-2273
1-888-533-2273

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