Council supports Brain Injury Alliance

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In 2014, a new umbrella organization, Brain Injury Alliance, was created to lobby on behalf of all brain injury groups.

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“For the last eight years, the provincial government has given the Brain Injury Alliance a grant of a million dollars a year for eight years,” explains Alison Hagreen, Secretary for Brain Injury Alliance Board. “That money has gone to the Brain Injury Alliance. The Brain Injury Alliance distributes that money throughout the province to these organizations.”

However in the recent letter, endorsed by Council, states: “It has been brought to our attention by our local brain injury society that funding to the Brain Injury Alliance expires in March 2023. We are supportive of the Alliance’s efforts to secure an extended, multi-year contract with the province.”

It goes on: “We (I) ask that you look into this matter immediately and reinstate the funding to the Alliance so that this vital service to the brain injured in our community will be maintained and continue.”

“Like, right now, the Alliance had one-time of three years. Three million dollars over three years,” says Challen. “Then we got it extended to another three years. Now we’re done. So now what do we do? For the Northern Brain Injury Association, if we lose the money we received, brain injury supports for Northern British Columbia would be decimated.”

He says his organization is currently funded midway into next year, but without committed funding, planning is impossible.