Essex Acquired Brain Injury Forum (EABIF) Meetings

Scheduled Meetings and Events

Essex Acquired Brain Injury Forum (EABIF) Meeting – Measuring the Invisible
February 23, 2017 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The Headway Centre
2 Boxted Road
Mile End
Colchester, CO4 5JD

How new research has identified the clinical factors influencing the care and case management of the brain injured.

Speaker: Jo Clark Wilson – Brain injury case manager and care expert

– to be followed by an open discussion on issues:

• arising from the presentation;
• surrounding the availability of, access to and procurement of rehabilitation and other services for the brain injured

As well as the usual discussion as to the format of future
events/meetings with the aim of these being determined by the
needs of membership

RSVP: sarah.drabble@btmk.co.uk

Measuring the Invisible

Previous Meetings

Essex Acquired Brain Injury Forum (Eabif) Meetings

Date: Wednesday 18th May 2016

Time: 1.00 p.m.

Venue: The Headway Centre, 2 Boxted Road, Mile End,

Colchester CO4 5JD

Subject of meeting: Steering group

Date: Wednesday 8th June 2016

Time: 5.00pm to 7.00pm (to be confirmed)

Venue: Essex University or The Headway Centre (to be confirmed)

Subject of meeting: To be confirmed

Speakers: To be confirmed

Date: Thursday 20th October 2016

Time: 5.00pm to 7.00pm (to be confirmed)

Venue: Essex University or The Headway Centre (to be confirmed)

Subject of meeting: To be confirmed

Speakers: To be confirmed

Essex Regional (Eabif) Meeting – Abi And Creativity (Full Title – “Abi And Creativity =- Connecting With Myself, Others And Life”)

September 17, 2015
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The Headway Centre
2 Boxted Road
Mile End
Colchester, Essex CO4 5JD

As the title suggests the focus of the meeting will be the relationship between acquired brain injury and the creative arts particularly in the context of the rehabilitation of the injured person.

Speakers:

• Dr. Fergus Gracey (clinical neuropsychologist)
• Dr. Caroline Ellis-Hill (senior lecturer is qualitative research at Bournemouth University)

Dr Gracey and Dr Ellis-Hill are leading a study in this area which Dr Gracey has described to me thus:

“…we are running a study to test the feasibility of a larger randomised controlled trial of an Arts for Health group to support people post-stroke. The Arts for Health movement is not art therapy, but more open in its ideas about supporting people’s engagement in and practice of arts of different kinds to foster health and well-being. We are interested in things like experience of self, social group membership, confidence to participate in things etc.”