Headway Guernsey

A brain injury can happen to anyone, at any age, at any time. One cause is a blow to the head - in an accident, for example. Or you could have a stroke or hemorrhage, even at a young age. Or you could have a brain tumour removed.

Headway Guernsey provides information, support and services to adults, and their families, who are living with the long-term effects of a brain injury.

Headway Guernsey aims to:

- ensure that no-one in the Bailiwick has to go though this life-shattering experience on their own.

- raise awareness of brain injury and the effects of this ‘hidden disability’.

- provide information and mutual support to people with a brain injury, and their families.

- organise activities to help people who have become socially isolated after a brain injury to learn new skills, make new friends and increase in confidence.

Headway Guernsey offers information and mutual support to brain injury survivors, running a programme of cognitive, social and interactive sessions as well as events and information evenings. Services are run at Headway House – a centre where people can come during the day to atttend specific sessions according to their assessed needs. The aim of the sessions is to build confidence, prevent social isolation, learn new skills and regain old skills. All of this in an environment where the effects of brain injury are completely understood.

Potential members can be referred via the hospital, GPs, other healthcare agencies and by self-referral. They will then be assessed by the Services Director to either an appropriate session or can be sign-posted to other, more suitable agencies.

Headway Guernsey is based at:

Headway House

KGV Playing Fields,

Rue Cohu,

Castel,

Guernsey.

GY5 7SZ

Telephone: (01481) 252589