Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Services
Condition Specific Support, Home Health Care, and Housing / Shelter
Provided by Island Health
Provides services to assist in the regaining, improving, or maintaining function and/or independence for adults with acquired brain injury.
The Brain Injury Program (BIP) is an island wide community based program that provides services to assist in the regaining, improving, or maintaining function and/or independence for adults with acquired brain injury. Brain Injury Program Services:
- Transitional Supports: Short term community supports that work with an individual to address activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) and behavioural support needs by implementing compensatory strategies in a community setting. Maximum duration of 26 weeks. Maximum eight hours of support per week.
- Outreach Supports: Longer term community supports that work with an individual by providing task specific sustained intervention in a community setting to maintain current stability. Maximum 15 support hours per month.Task specific support only.
- Transitional Supported Apartments: Located in Victoria and Campbell River, these are short-term supported living environments in individual apartments, including market rental apartments, with a focus on acquiring practical skills and regaining function to transition to independent living.
- Group Living Resource: A longer term, structured residential home-like environment that provides support with a focus on maximizing cognitive, physical and social recovery in partnership with community programs.
- Family Care Homes: A longer term or temporary placement in a designated single family home that provides structure based on client need with a focus on maximizing cognitive, physical and social recovery in partnership with community programs.
Services are subject to availability and are voluntary. BIP determines if an applicant is eligible for any service.There could be a fee associated with residential services. To access services call the Community Access Centre in your region. Referral not required.
General Eligibility Criteria:
- Be 19 years of age and older
- Diagnosis or medical evidence of an acquired brain injury after birth (e.g. CT Scan, MRI report, neurological or physiatrist's report)
- Live within the boundaries of Island Health and meet residency requirements as defined by Community Health Services
- No or limited funding or access to services from other sources such as - ICBC, WorkSafe, Crime Victims Assistance Program, Veteran's Affairs, etc.
- In addition to the above general criteria, certain programs within the Brain Injury Program have additional eligibility requirements.
250-519-5299
Website: https://www.islandhealth.ca/our...
Island Health Brain Injury Program - #307A, 1450 Hillside Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia
250-388-2273 (South Island)
Toll Free: 1-888-533-2273
All communities south of Mill Bay, including Greater Victoria, the Southern Gulf Islands and west to Port Renfrew.
250-739-5749 (Tofino/Ucluelet)
Toll Free: 1-877-734-4101
250-331-8570
Toll Free: 1-866-928-4988
All communities north of Deep Bay including the Mt. Waddington Regional District and the mainland area adjacent to it.
Service is available in English.
Cost: Fees may apply
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Availability
Service area: Island Health Area
Service Types Provided
Condition Specific Support
Home Health Care
Housing / Shelter
- Family Care Homes
- Group Homes
- Supportive Housing: Supportive Housing: Disability/ Developmental Delay
Ways to Access
- Provided 1:1 in-person
- Provided at home
- Provided at multiple locations
The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.