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Delaney’s personal thoughts on Experiences of Relatives of People with Acquired Brain Injury

11 December 2024

Review written by Delaney Collins Senior Brain Injury Case Manager & Safeguarding Lead My mother acquired a brain injury as a Canadian veteran overseas when I was 16 years old. This has massively fuelled my passion for working with clients with traumatic brain injuries and their families...

Connecting the Dots: Head First Conference 2024

3 April 2024

Connecting the Dots: Exploring relationships between brain, mind, body and the environment to enhance brain injury rehabilitation and personal resiliance. At our 2024 conference, Connecting the Dots, we will be be sharing current research evidence of brain -body relationships and raising awareness of alternative treatment approaches that can be integrated into mainstream rehabilitation to enhance personal wellbeing & health...

4 Years at Head First: Helen Goddard

1 December 2022

As I eat my celebration cake, I thought it a good time to reflect on my time with the Head First family. I have learnt so much about brain injury, and the value of working with excellent support workers and the Head First team...

Training

Case Managers at Head First regularly present at conferences and have delivered bespoke lectures, seminars and workshops on rehabilitation, case management and care for professionals working in the field of brain injury, Solicitors, Support Workers and Students from higher education colleges.

Research

Head First carries out research and development of which further information will be posted here soon.

Recruitment

Head First is constantly expanding in the various aspects of its works, which includes setting rehabilitation goals with clients and Support Workers in the home setting; facilitating the client's and family's adjustment to the injuries; recruiting, training and supporting support workers; and managing care regimes.

Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation is essential to enable clients' to generalise their skills into everyday life after a severe brain injury. The Case Managers liaise with relevant others including Families and Therapy professionals to establish and co-ordinate timely and cost effective community-based rehabilitation programmes.