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Borders Brain Injury Service

Scottish Borders

Population 112,000

Area sq. km 4,743 (1831 sq miles)

Density (persons per sq. km) 24

Biggest populated town 14,120

Sheep 1,291.593

Poultry 2,573.923

Borders Brain Injury Service

Staff2 outreach workers (full time)1 centre based tutor (part time)1 admin (part time)

Service UsersSupporting over 100 each year

Borders Brain Injury Service

Funding becoming more difficult to find

A greater demand on our service

What are we doing to make a difference?

What are our service users doing to make a difference?

Borders Brain Injury ServiceOutreach

Momentum's outreach programme in the Scottish Borders

assists adults who have sustained brain injures to live

independently and to re-integrate into their communities. We

also support parents of children with head injury. The

Community Rehabilitation Workers assist clients to manage

the effects of their brain injury, providing one-to-one support

and a range of information, including counselling and

provides support to their families and carers. Momentum also

provides a Consultant Neuropsychologist once a month to

support the Borders Brain Injury Service.

Borders Brain Injury Service

Two Support Groups one based in Berwickshire and the other in the Central Borders meet monthly and give clients the opportunity to meet other people with head injuries in their local communities or in our premises in Galashiels.

The Social Evening takes place once a month in the Chaplaincy Centre at the Borders General Hospital. Entertainment includes: Guest speakers, slide shows, musical nights and various demonstrations.

Heads You Win Course offered in partnership with Borders College, offers service users the opportunity to gain self-confidence, social integration and skills through various courses which include: Information Technology, Cookery, Numeracy and dealing with the effects of Head Injury.

Borders Brain Injury Service

Centre - Based

Following the involvement of a Momentum outreach worker and by referral from that worker, service users are offered a place in the Centre Based Programme. Centre-based activities aim to provide confidence building through acquisition of skills in achievable, staged units. Each session involves varied approaches in order to maintain service users’ engagement and to encourage different learning styles. The key aims of the service are various and inter-related: engendering a supportive environment amongst service users, increasing confidence and encouraging a positive outlook, improving cognitive skills, re-learning literacy skills, and gaining or re-gaining IT skills.

Employment Support ProgrammeSupports service users find and sustain paid work, voluntary

work, placements, work tasters, training and any educational courses, formal or informal. This programme is accessed through the outreach service.

The Job Retention Programme works with Service Users to enable them to return to work following brain injury. By becoming involved at an early stage, we aim to help people break down the barriers that are preventing them from returning to work. We also provide support to employers, helping them to understand the needs of such employees and to offer practical solutions, which may enable them to return to work. This could include adaptations to the workplace or providing a support worker to assist employees with tasks they are unable to complete.

Borders Brain Injury Service

Heads Together

A little bit about me

Doing something for ourselves

Setting up the Heads Together Committee

Fundraising

What do we spend our money on

Our ultimate goal

Peer Support Groups

A little bit about me

The first peer support group in Eyemouth

The second group in Duns

Self Financing

Chirnside Group

Mac Group Galashiels

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Shoulder to Shoulder

A new joint cross border partnership support group between Headway, North Northumberland and MomentumScottish Borders, the group is based in Berwick Upon Tweed

Skills AccreditationA joint programme between Borders College and MomentumScottish Borders.

A set of structured rehabilitation modules to be delivered either at

home or in the centre.

Certificated by NCFE

Certificate Presentation each year

Borders Brain Injury Service