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Message from the Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference Chair

Raising Canada’s Consciousness for 20 years!

The Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference (PCBIC) Steering Committee and the Brain Injury Association of Canada (BIAC) have partnered this year to bring you a truly spectacular, national event.  Our aim is to deliver top quality speakers and presentations, bring together members of the brain injury communities from all parts of Canada as well as the US and other countries, and to celebrate 20 years of education, consciousness-raising and community development.

This year’s program offers a wide variety of workshops and presentations that will appeal to professionals working in the field as well as survivors and family members.  On February 15th, two day-long pre-conference workshops address prevention and human relations.  Throughout the conference, you will be inspired by many of our favourite speakers from the past 20 years as well as some new ones.  We are confident that you will find the presentations enlightening, educating, and even entertaining! 

A Tribute to Our Legends
This year we are honouring individuals and groups who have made a significant contribution to the brain injury community in BC over the past 20 years.  Be sure to join us at this reception to pay tribute to those who have helped make a better life for individuals and families living with the outcome of a brain injury.  As well, you will enjoy the wonderful music of “The Copy Cats” – a fantastic Motown group who kept the crowd on their feet at our last conference!

What does the future hold?
As with all milestones in one’s life, the 20th Anniversary of PCBIC has provided us with an opportunity to reflect on our work over the last two decades, as well as an opportunity to think about what might be possible in the future. The original intent of the conference was to provide education on brain injury, to be as inclusive as possible in all aspects of the planning, to increase overall public awareness of the issues facing survivors and family members, and to bring the brain injury community together to strengthen our voice and impact. We feel that we have been true to these principles throughout the last 20 years of the PCBIC. We have also watched with pleasure as a growing number of conferences and educational sessions throughout BC and Canada have been planned and delivered with these same principles in mind. There are now more options than ever before for people to receive top quality education on brain injury within their own communities and much closer to home! Within this context the PCBIC Steering Committee has decided to devote our time and efforts over this next year to reflecting, evaluating, re-tooling, and transitioning the conference into a sustainable vision for the future. As a result, we are not planning a conference for 2008 but are committed to the original intent and principles envisioned by the founders and have many ideas for continuing their mission and in fact broadening our reach in the future.  During this time, we invite you to contact us with your thoughts on the conference and its two decades of serving the brain injury community, and to let us know what you would like to see in the future.  For contact information and updates on the future of the conference, please visit our website www.pcbic.org.

Bonnie Wilson
Conference Chair
Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference
 

 

The Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference 
Canada's 2007 National Conference on Brain Injury

The Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference (also known as PCBIC) is an annual event held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. PCBIC is Canada's premier national conference on acquired brain injury. PCBIC and the Brain Injury Association of Canada (BIAC) are working in partnership to present the 2007 PCBIC as Canada's National Brain Injury Conference!  In addition to a national focus, this event celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference.  The Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference Society, a non-profit organization run by a volunteer steering committee, organizes the conference, workshops and exhibits. The mission of the PCBIC Society is to host a yearly brain injury conference that supports brain injury communities. The focus of the conference is to increase understanding of the problems faced by people living with brain injury, to strengthen partnerships, and to increase awareness of services, programs and new approaches in brain injury research. PCBIC is an inclusive conference. Through the generous support of our sponsors we are able to bring together survivors of brain injury, their families, rehabilitation professionals, doctors, nurses, social workers, service providers, support groups, lawyers, insurers and other parties interested in brain injury. The conference provides a unique community setting with many opportunities to meet face-to-face, share ideas and learn.