Brain Injury Association of Waterloo-Wellington

Welcome to
The Brain Injury Association of Waterloo Wellington (BIAWW)

Email us at info@biaww.com for general inquires
Email our executive director at director@biaww.com

About Us

Our Team

Acquired Brain Injury

True Stories of Survival

Annual Reports

Sponsors & Supporters

About Us

The Brain Injury Association of Waterloo-Wellington (BIAWW) is a registered not-for-profit charity that provides support, advocacy, and programs to survivors of acquired brain injury (ABI) and educational programs to the children and youth in the communities of Waterloo Region and Wellington County.

We provide resources on how to access community resources such as legal, rehabilitation, health care, work re-entry, school re-entry and community services. We make available information on concussion and acquired brain injury to survivors and their caregivers.
We offer a community prevention program called "Lidz on Kidz" which allows us to visit area schools, minor sport leagues and community events to promote wearing appropriate equipment and how to play safely with the proper helmet.
We provide a caregivers support group called "Care to Share" where caregivers can speak with their peers to gain support and develop friendships.

Mission

To give support, hope and answers to survivors of ABI.

Vision

To be recognized as pioneers in meeting the needs of survivors and their caregivers and setting the standard for innovative program delivery, education and prevention of ABI.

Advocate . Educate . Connect . Empower

New Drop in at the Wing 404 Recreational Centre

We now have a location in Waterloo every Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:30 for $2 drop-in programs.

Located at 510 Dutton Dr, Waterloo, ON N2L 4C6, we will have access to the Wing 404 Recreational Centre as a drop-in.

Nov 13- Greeting card making-All Welcome
Nov 20- Greeting card making-All welcome
Nov 27- Board games and greeting card making-All welcome

Greeting Card Project

Our survivors are showing their creative side in making greeting cards!

We will be selling our cards at businesses and craft shows in the Waterloo and Wellington regions. See some photos and locations here. Please drop by and introduce yourself!

Thanks for all your support!

The 2019 Oktoberfest Warm-up FUNdraising event was a blast!

Thanks to our sponsors, donors, guests, and especially our volunteers for making our 2nd Annual Oktoberfest Warm-up a great success! Thanks also to our Honorary chair Catherine Fife for her words of encouragement.

The food provided by Fat Sparrow and entertainment by the Zigge Zagges was top notch! If you missed it, you need to be there next year!

Here are some photos from this year's event.

Art exhibition - Date TBD

Unfortunately, our concert scheduled for Nov 15th has been postponed until sometime in 2020.

We are hoping to still have an art exhibition in early December. Please stay tuned for more information about the exhibition which will feature all of the amazing art works created by survivors in 2019.

Partially funded by the Kitchener Waterloo Community Foundation (KWCF), this art-therapy project allows survivors to creatively express themselves through various media.

On display will be paper sculptures, acrylic paint images, fused glass and ceramic mugs. In addition, many of the survivor masks illustrating what it's like to live with a brain injury will be at the exhibition.

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SUPPORT GROUP MEETINGS!
The support group meetings are FREE and open to anyone who has sustained a brain injury or who is supporting a brain injury survivor. Please join us!!

New members, please email program@biaww.com to register!

Young Adults
Next meeting: TBD

Location TBD

Kitchener
Next meeting: Tuesday Nov 12 at 7:00 p.m.

Opportunity Centre, Driftwood Plaza Unit 18A
450 Westheights Dr,
Kitchener, ON N2N 2B9

Guelph
Next meeting: Nov 13 at 7:00 p.m.

Shift Concussion Management
1515 Gordon St. Suite 205
Guelph, ON N1L 1C9

Cambridge
Next meeting: Tuesday Nov 19 at 6:00 p.m.

Monograms Coffee Roasters
16 Ainslie St. S.
Cambridge, Ontario N1R 3K1

Mt. Forest
Next meeting: Wednesday Nov 20 at 7:00 p.m.
Guest speaker: Michelle Gross DC

Strathcona Village Homes
740 Princess St, Mount Forest, ON N0G 2L3

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Executive Director
We are pleased to have Lynda Abshoff as our Executive Director!
As a care-giver to a spouse with a brain injury, Lynda is familiar with the challenges faced by survivors and their supporters. She can be reached at director@biaww.com.

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We want to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to provide valuable feedback for our future programming.
Take the SURVEY now!
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Announcing!
We have launched a new partnership with Loyalty Funding. Find out how you can support the BIAWW by making everyday purchases such as groceries, gas and coffee!

Go to Loyalty Funding!