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Headway East Northants has been providing support services to people who have survived an acquired brain injury for over 25 years. The focus of the organisation is on what people can achieve, not what they cannot. We embrace opportunities and continue striving to provide a positive environment. This belief does not just extend to the Service Users but to all of the organisation.
We aim to support our staff and volunteers to develop their skills and grow during their time with us.
Creativity, expression and valuing a person centred approach are all key elements of our work.
Brain injury is the most complex injury to the most complex organ in the body. With advances in medical science more people are surviving brain injury but with a range of lifelong disabilities. For these people living independently once again is a challenge and there is limited community support for brain injury survivors and their families in Northamptonshire when they are discharged from hospital, hence the need for Headway East Northants.
Services from the statutory agencies are concentrated on people classified as having a ‘substantial’ or ‘critical’ need. Whilst there is a need to target services to these people there is also a need to provide services to those who are not in this very small group but are still experiencing the effects of a brain injury i.e. poor organisational skills, memory difficulties or behavioural problems. We provide information and support for the survivors, their families and carers as a result of mild to severe brain injury.
Brain injury is often called the hidden disability as many people will appear, on the surface at least, to be perfectly healthy and yet they may well be struggling with the most simple cognitive functions or have behavioural or emotional difficulties. It is the cognitive or emotional and behavioural difficulties that brain injury survivors, their families and carers, find the most difficult to cope with. People can often empathise with someone in a wheelchair but if that person is behaving in a disinhibited way, or has anger management issues, this is often harder for families and the person themselves to deal with. This can lead to social isolation for both the person with a brain injury and their families and therefore there is a need to develop support networks for people in their own communities. There is also a need to provide more information and support to brain injury survivors and their families to help them understand the effects of brain injury and to provide support and strategies for dealing with the effects. Headway East Northants is constantly growing to help meet these needs of brain injury survivors, their families and carers. Working together with our service users and the community we can help shape and steer the future development of the service and allow us to continue to maintain and strive for high standards within our work.
We aim to support our staff and volunteers to develop their skills and grow during their time with us.
Creativity, expression and valuing a person centred approach are all key elements of our work.
Brain injury is the most complex injury to the most complex organ in the body. With advances in medical science more people are surviving brain injury but with a range of lifelong disabilities. For these people living independently once again is a challenge and there is limited community support for brain injury survivors and their families in Northamptonshire when they are discharged from hospital, hence the need for Headway East Northants.
East Northants Headway is a Registered Charity Number :1085311 and a Company Limited by Guarantee Number : 03788049
Registered address 61 High Street, Irthlingborough, Northants, NN9 5PU
