Support for Persons with Brain Injury
During monthly support group meetings in Williamsburg and Newport News, brain injury survivors share much needed information with each other. Survivors face challenges commonly associated with blows to the head received after falls, car crashes, and assaults, or from pressure and oxygen-deprivation due to tumors, stokes, aneurysms and other neurological incidents.
Damage to brain cells causes thinking skills to slow down. Damage also leads to frustrating problems with remembering and performing tasks that were once commonplace. It takes longer to solve problems and strategies are needed to help with memory and organization. Many people with brain injuries are confused by their "thinking" problems and frequently become depressed. These issues usually become a problem long after the injured person has left the hospital or other acute medical care setting.
Support groups in Williamsburg and Newport News provide a service to individuals with brain injury that is not available anywhere else. Members discuss, share, learn and support each other as they rehabilitate, adjust and adapt -- a process which often begins months and even years after injury.
Your contributions to the Williamsburg and Newport News Brain Injury Survivors Support Groups will help us:
- Print Our Support Group Brochure
We want to print a quantity of our brochure to leave with doctors and therapists who work with persons with brain injury. The brochure can be distributed to organizations, schools, hospitals, etc. to hand out to persons with brain injury to let them know about our group. It is hard to get the word out, but we hope that getting a simple brochure in more peoples’ hands will help. - Print a Meeting Place Sign
Funds will help us purchase a poster-sized sign to stick in the ground outside our meeting place before each meeting and remove afterwards. The sign would say that the Williamsburg or Newport News Brain Injury Survivors Support Group meeting is “here” and would also give anyone who sees it more information so that they can follow up. - Purchase Small Thank-You Gifts for Presenters
Donations will help us purchase small gifts to thank presenters who come to speak to our group. - Provide a Refreshment Fund
It would be nice to have a refreshment fund. There are a few of us who bring refreshments to every meeting. I hope you can appreciate how that adds up.
