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Quarterly Wellness-Quality of Life survey

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2024 In A Nutshell

Our 2024 was fantastic. It involved experiencing new challenges as we grew, which are known as “growing pains.” I am pleased to report that our ‘Meet Survivors Where They Are’ outreach campaign was a homerun. The campaign got the information to people when they were looking for it. This was measured by the visits to our website, which improved by 300%. We had 10,953 new visits and 19,924 total visits, who viewed 33,144 pages.

Our other accomplishments of 2024 were

Completed a full year of our wellness surveys and recorded 102 surveys.
We welcomed 59 new survivors.
We had 65 meetings and helped 1404 brain injury survivors, including 278 Kitsap County residents.
Notably, we witnessed two of our members start new businesses.

We feel confident going into 2025 as we face new, unanticipated challenges.

Thank you for your confidence and support and we hope to see everybody soon!

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Our operations were made possible in part by a grants from the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, Suquamish Tribe and Suquamish Foundation, and Kitsap County

Introducing our Brain Injury Survivor Wellness-Quality of Life survey

A stipulation of our grants is we are to provide evidence every quarter that our groups improve the quality of life for brain injury survivors. We have identified that utilizing self-reported quality-of-life surveys is the ideal mechanism to capture the required evidence. Only brain injury survivors should participate in this wellness survey.

To conduct this survey, we are using EmailMeForm (EMF) due to their HIPAA Compliance. EmailMeForm will tally and report the survey results. The quarterly results will be available on our website toward the end of March.

By completing this anonymous survey, you are supporting Kitsap Brain Injury. To show our appreciation for completing the quarterly survey, we will send you a gift. This quarter's gift is a purple long sleeve shirt with artwork by Diana Doodles. Diana is a brain injury survivor and attened our groups in the past.

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Our "Meet Survivors where there are" outreach campaign continues into 2025 due to its amazing response

This campaign is intended to get people the information when they urgently need it

Our "Meet Survivors where there are" community outreach plan is to mail three of our support group postcards to every medical and mental health care provider in Kitsap, Clallam, and Jefferson Counties.

If you are a provider who received a postcard and would like to support our efforts, please contact us using the button below

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This program is made possible in part by a grant from the Suquamish Tribe and Suquamish Foundation

Giving the gift of warmth

Research conducted by the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) has identified that approximately one out of every two homeless people are brain injury survivors.

As the weather is getting harsher and temperatures are colder, our brain injury survivors want to help. We have identified the best way to do that is through donating blankets. Coats, etc. to local area community organizations.

We have identified these organization for you to safely donate and spead warmth this winter

Kitsap

The Arc of the Peninsulas

Kitsap County housing and homelessness coalition

Jefferson

Olycap

Clallam

Serenity House

Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic ReDiscovery Program

Create your own healing sanctuary

Start small and you will be surprised by the calming and healing effects

I normally start with Miracle Grow garden soil and plant starters

Remember to set up a watering routine

If you want a simple gardening guide check out the following website.

Want a Garden? 7 Easy Ways to Start for Non-Gardeners

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Occupational Therapy Gardening Ideas for Adults (& Kids)

Gardening tips

Do you have better gardening links? Send them to us using the contact us page and we may share them with everyone

Online Support Groups

We are pleased to announce that we will continue to offer two online support offerings in 2024.

The Monthly Support Group and the new TBI Koffee Klatch

Our monthly support groups meets on the second Thursday of the month at 1:00 PM-2:30 PM

The Koffee Klatch meets every Monday at 10 AM

For more information please visit the online groups page

Online Groups

Brain Injury Today Podcast

The podcast is produced in collaboration with Goal 17 Media.

The BIAWA produces a podcast series for brain injury survivors. The series includes several great topics. Brain Injury Today is the official podcast of the Brain Injury Alliance of Washington

Podcast Website