The Ontario Brain Injury Association (OBIA), in partnership with the Headway Homes Fund at the Niagara Community Foundation, is offering up to $10,000.00 in funding. This funding is from Headway Homes (Niagara) Inc. and is intended to enhance the lives of people who experience ongoing, complex needs following a brain injury.
The conditions of the fund are as follows: The person is an individual medically diagnosed with a severe brain injury who experiences ongoing, complex needs, and either the individual and/or their family caregiver requires specific financial assistance. Individuals eligible for the fund are experiencing slow or prolonged recovery with minimal changes in their physical and/or cognitive abilities from month to month. To be eligible for this fund, individuals must have multiple, complex needs that require caregiving support to manage their day-to-day functioning.
Items that may be considered appropriate for funding consideration are those that would directly improve the quality of life of the individual living with the brain injury. Requests for funds that will be directed towards administrative activities or items that will not be directly used by the individual will not be considered.
Requests from family caregivers may include conference registration fees or alternative learning activities that would support their continued role with the individual living with the brain injury.
The first priority will be to assist individuals from the Niagara area, followed by the rest of Ontario.
Please note: Applications are reviewed on a first come first serve basis beginning April 1 each year. Application forms can be downloaded and completed in advance, but cannot be submitted for consideration prior to April 1 each year (no exceptions).
To apply to the fund, please click on the link below.
Click to download the application form
Once the form is completed and signed by a registered health care professional, please send to:
OBIA Headway Homes Fund
Attention OBIA
obia@obia.on.ca
All applications will be acknowledged and kept in the strictest confidence.