Headway Essex
Providing Brain Injury Care & Support
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25th Anniversary
2010 is Headway Essex's 25th Anniversary - 25 years of care for people with brain injury and their families.
How We Help
Enabling Independence
- Advising on strategies to support any issues arising from brain injury
- Advising on strategies to support cognitive deficits and memory loss
- Sourcing local support networks
- Long-term support and guidance
- Empowering the carer and person with brain injury
Social Integration
- Providing opportunities for peer support
- Improving social integration
- Enabling clients to access supported social activities
- Offering opportunities for social outings
Emotional and Mental Health
- Raising awareness and insight into the effects of an individual’s brain injury
- Rebuilding confidence and self-esteem
- Improving psychological well-being
- Providing a listening ear and emotional support
- Addressing issues of drug and alcohol abuse
Communication
- Addressing social and psychological issues
- Opportunities to express emotions
- Advice and support
- Providing information about brain injury and its effects
- Advising on available resources
- Supporting clients through crises
- Signposting to other appropriate agencies
- Working with other agencies to provide a seamless service
Education and Training
- Providing education on brain injury to children in schools
- Providing information on the prevention of brain injury
- Supporting clients with their ongoing educational requirements
Access to employment
- Providing information on brain injury and its effects to employers
- Supporting clients with employment issues
- Encouraging volunteering opportunities to build work stamina
Health and Self Care
- Reviewing clients abilities for self care
- Improving understanding of appropriate personal hygiene and self care
- Improving understanding of healthy eating and cooking
Supporting the families and carers
- Supporting the family with the stresses of living with brain injury
- A listening ear
- Providing respite for the carers from Catalyst Assessment (NEE)
- Assessing the needs of both the family and carer
Headway Essex provides care and support for survivors of brain injury and their families and carers
Headway Essex Town Office, 58b Head Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1PB.
Headway Essex is a Registered Charity No. 1008807 and a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England No. 2674755
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