SPEAKER: Briana Lefman, M.S., C.R.C., C.C.T.P., L.P.C.C.
Briana is a licensed counselor and founder of Hamsa Healing Space. She will be discussing Employment After Brain Injury—Considerations, Challenges and Solutions.
SPEAKER: Mohammed Ahmed, M.D., Neuropsychiatrist and Medical Director of Kaizen Brain Center
Dr. Ahmed is a specialist in both memory disorders/dementia and brain injury medicine. He will be discussing TBI and Alzheimer’s Disease.
SPEAKER: JoAnn Jaffe, Yoga practitioner and founder of OG Yoga
JoAnn Jaffe is a Yoga practitioner and founder of OG Yoga, a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing trauma, making yoga accessible to San Diego’s underserved communities, & intervening in the complex processes of trauma. This talk will focus on using Yoga to learn about meeting yourself where you are, cultivate your strengths to move forward, and how to connect with your body and relax.
SPEAKER: Gail Ludwig, M.A.CCC.
Gail Ludwig is a licensed Speech/Language Pathologist with decades of experience serving the San Diego brain injury community, and will discuss the Importance of Relationship Development Between Survivors and Loved Ones, Caregivers and Therapists. Each one of us has important people in our lives who have been a support to us. After a brain injury, relationships with those who are in the position to help us make the most of our recovery are of utmost importance. This talk will focus on sharing tips on how loved ones, caregivers and therapists can develop and maintain positive, supportive relationships that will allow survivors to thrive!
Please Keep Raising Brain Injury Awareness Through March—
We are So Close to Reaching Our Goal!
There are still a few days left in March (a.k.a. Brain Injury Awareness Month)…so please keep doing just that—raising awareness!!
• Use #sH2022 to SHARE YOUR PHOTOS you took at surviveHEADSTRONG on social media.
• Ask your social media followers to continue to DONATE to your fundraising page.
• But most importantly, SHARE YOUR STORY about your connection to brain injury.
Only as a community can we make it known how brain injury affects so many people, in so many different ways!
Join SDBIF and a bunch of your brain injury community friends for some fun-filled hours of holiday cheer!
The Zoom link below will be active, but it is yet to be determined if we will have an in-person party. More details coming soon…
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5019416338
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Download it by clicking the button
If you haven’t yet, please send your content to info@sdbif.org so it can be included!!!
Each year, surviveHEADSTRONG is the largest gathering of the San Diego brain injury community. This year, even with event modifications for COVID-19 safety reasons, it will still be the biggest celebration of the achievements of survivors and their families and friends as they all take steps on their journey to recovery from brain injury—through both virtual activities and the modified event at Mission Bay Park on Sunday, Sept, 20. Whether you walk, roll or are just there to cheer the others on, it is a day where we all ACHIEVE MORE TOGETHER!
November 2019 Friday Night Liberty
Featured Artist: Ryan Olson
Come out on Friday, November 1 to support our featured artist, Ryan Olson, at the Liberty Station, November Friday Night Liberty Event.
You can find out more about Ryan’s recovery and the resources that the San Diego Brain Injury Foundation offer to survivors and their families.
Ryan sustained a Severe Traumatic Brain Injury 3 years ago in a motorcycle accident. His family was told by doctors that he would never wake up from a coma, and if he did, would never walk, talk or have any “Quality of Life.” Ryan is the definition of a survivor and with lots of hard work and determination is fighting the odds! He was an artist before the accident. His creativity and passion for art was the one thing he was most grateful to regain over a year after the accident. Art is very therapeutic for Ryan, sharing it with the community is what drives him to keep moving forward. Ryan brings Quality to Lives of many with his paintings!
November 1, 5—8 pm
Liberty Station
2730 Historic Decatur Road
Barracks 16, #205, San Diego, CA 92106
