URGE THE MANITOBA GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY-BASED BRAIN INJURY SERVICES IN BRANDON, MANITOBA

50,000 Canadians sustain brain injuries each year, over 1 million Canadians live with the effects of Acquired Brain Injury. There is a great need to provide support for community-based brain injury services especially in rural areas.

TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA:


The background to this petition is as follows:


1. Brain Injury Canada estimates that 50,000 Canadians sustain brain injuries each  year; over 1 million Canadians live with the effects of an acquired brain injury; 30% of all traumatic brain injuries are sustained by children and youth; and approximately 50% of brain injuries come from falls and motor vehicle collisions.


2. Studies conducted by Manitoba Health in 2003 and the Brandon Regional Health Authority in 2008 identified the need for community-based brain injury services.


3. These studies recommended that Manitoba adopt the Saskatchewan model of brain injury.


4. The treatment and coverage for Manitobans who suffer brain injuries varies greatly resulting in huge inadequacies depending upon whether a person suffers injury at work, in a motor vehicle collision, through assault or from medical issues such as stroke, aneurysm or anoxia due to cardiac arrest and/or other medical reasons.


5. Although inpatient services including acute care, short and longer term rehabilitation are available throughout the province, brain injury patients who are discharged from hospital often experience discontinuation or great reduction of services which results in significant financial and emotional burdens being placed on family and friends.


WE PETITION THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA AS FOLLOWS:


1. To urge the Provincial Government to develop and evolve a community-based brain injury services that include but are not limited to: case management services knows also as service navigation; safe and accessible housing in the community; proctor or coach type assistance for community re-integration programs: improved access to community-based rehabilitation services ; and improved transportation especially for people living in rural Manitoba.


2. To urge the Provincial Government to encompass financial and emotional supports for families and other caregivers in the model that is developed.

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