2024 BrainStormers Presentation during Seniors Week in June

Education Programs

The South Okanagan Similkameen Brain Injury Society is dedicated in spreading brain injury awareness through:

Brain Injury Prevention & Education: Our goal is to reduce the incidence of Acquired Brain Injury by encouraging people, especially youth, to use safe practices when it comes to life’s activities.

Brain Safe Program: At SOSBIS we provide free helmets to low-income families and individuals unable to afford a proper fitting helmet.

Helmet Information: Do you have questions about how to properly buy a helmet for yourself or a child? At SOSBIS we provide helmet fitting information and guidelines.

Brain Injury 101 Educational Series: This educational series offers an introduction to brain anatomy and the effects of a brain injury.

The Stroke Navigator Program is a non-medical, community support service that assists stroke survivors and their caregivers with the adjustment to life after stroke and the integration back into the community.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

POSITIVE TICKETS

CONCUSSION AWARENESS

COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS

Community Resources

To access the Little Red Book from Penticton Access Center, Click Below:

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Pamphlets

We, the Brain Stormers, are very proud to share the pamphlets:

You Have Experienced a Brain Injury and You Have Experienced a Stroke.

The Brain Stormers are a peer group of volunteers who share a passion of wanting to help other survivors and their caregivers through their journey. We all went through feelings of loneliness, helplessness, isolation and fear and want others to know that they are not alone. The pamphlets briefly explain about the parts of the brain, the different brain injuries and strokes, how it may affect you and how to care for yourself so that it does not re-occur.

The pamphlets will first be distributed to stroke and brain injury survivors, their caregivers and their families in the hospital and later to others, such as Doctors, Physiotherapists, support groups, or wherever they can reach stroke and brain injury survivors.

Our group will continue with other projects that we hope will be beneficial to survivors.

We would like to thank staff of the Brain Injury Society who have given us guidance and support so that the pamphlets could be developed and distributed to those who will benefit from them.

For the pamphlets printable PDF, please click here