Brain Injury Awareness

Each year over 2000 people in Northern Ireland sustain a Brain Injury. Brain Injuries can be caused by a variety of different reasons including falls, road traffic accidents and assault. This can have a life changing effect on the individual, their families and carers.

Some people will have to deal with significant and ongoing difficulties with their memory, concentration, emotions or behaviour as well as physical problems. These individuals may find that due to their injury they face challenges and barriers when they try to re-enter the workplace.

Cedar’s Brain Injury Services aim to enable people surviving Brain Injury to achieve their personal goals for returning to work, gaining qualifications and having an active life.

During Brain Injury Awareness Week, Cedar; hosted coffee mornings where Service Users shared experiences and posted comments on the organisation’s website, delivered free Brain Injury Awareness Training to employers & community groups and worked with Service Users to disseminate posters and information leaflets around local communities which included the Limavady Area.

The Cedar Foundation deliver a range of services in Northern Ireland that enable children and adults with disabilities to be fully included in their communities. To phone Cedar’s Foyle Training and Resource Centre call (028) 7136 0136 or log onto www.cedar-foundation.org.

In tomorrow’s Sentinel, read the story of local woman Daphne Wilson, who has been living with a serious brain injury for the past three years.