The National Acquired Brain Injury Conference 2015 is dedicated to strategies for managing the changing needs of people with an ABI.
The National Acquired Brain Injury Conference 2015 covers topics such as:
- ABI training, education and resources
- ABI and NDIS - Funding source/opportunities for people
- Working with family, friends and community
- A client/consumers perspective
- Update on FASD issues reported on
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and ABI
- Young people in nursing homes / Accommodation models
- ABI and the criminal justice system response supports
- Latest innovations in rehab and community care
- Post-acute care models of social/community reintegration
- Goal setting and effectiveness
- Community development work in ABI sector
- Psycho-social adjustment [immediately - the first 6-18 months] post-brain injury
- Treatment programs for ABI- What is working?
- Facilitating successful return-to-work following brain injury
- Ongoing/long-term, taking into account some changes that can occur with age or life stage changes
- Concussion
- Alcohol [and other drug] -related brain injury
- Decision Making Support for people with ABI and the people who support them
- Interventions for "challenging behaviours"
- Self-directed funding for people with a brain injury
