Acquired Brain Injury NI

Public benefits

A brain injury does not discriminate, it can happen to anyone, anywhere. The public benefit provided by Acquired Brain Injury N Ireland is to identify and respond to the needs of people with a brain injury and their families as they struggle to rebuild their lives in their local communities. Brain Injury can be caused by non-traumatic and traumatic

means such as stroke, road traffic accident, falls, lack of oxygen to the brain, infections or attempting to take their own lives by suicide. Clinically lead neuro-rehabilitation would include the achievement of greater personal independence, learning skills and strategies to manage a newly acquired disability and its challenges physically, cognitively, psychologically and socially. This will assist families therapeutically to adjust to the changes in their lives and provide training to allow them to remain steadfastly part of their community despite the trauma. Neuro-rehabilitation is proven to reduce dependence on public services and will lessen the burden on health and social services as people learn to manage on their own. ABI N. Ireland also strive to advocate and to inform and build awareness in the community of the challenges faced by those who have had a brain injury. This benefits all in creating an inclusive community and society. ABI N Ireland can demonstrate public benefit in a number of ways. Personal outcomes measures are recorded for everyone as part of their rehabilitation plan. Many publicly share their stories of overcoming challenges they have faced. As part of our stakeholder engagement process annual surveys would be carried out to determine if our stakeholders including funders agree that we do what we say we do. The results of these would be available in annual reports. In providing clinical lead neuro-rehabilitation everyone benefits. There is no harm foreseen in the provision of the services. There are robust policies and procedures in place to ensure the health and safety of each client and compliance with all statutory regulations. Our purpose is to provide clinically lead Neuro-rehabilitation and support to people with an Acquired Brain Injury and their families, to enable them to live a more independent and integrated life within their local communities in Northern Ireland. Through the progress of integration for this group along with advocacy, information and education on brain injury in the communities, everyone benefits in some way from building an inclusive and diverse society There are no private benefits foreseen in our charitable activities. Where training or support may be given to other agencies on request there may be a small fee to cover the training all monies go directly back to the charity.

What your organisation does

To provide clinically lead neuro-rehabilitation and support to people with an Acquired Brain Injury and their families, to enable them live a more independent and integrated life within their local communities in Northern Ireland. This is carried out through the provision of both residential and community rehabilitation.