Support for Children with Brain Injuries
Headway Devon's first Children's Centre opened at the Knight Club, in Exeter, in October 2006 with a small group of children who had sustained acquired brain injuries.
From opening day onwards, the emphasis was to raise awareness of the new service amongst local professionals working with children. Slowly but surely, the number of children benefiting from the service has grown.
Activities have including creating a jungle display, potato-printing, and mosaic-making, as well as traditional seasonal cookery activities - cookies at Christmas and chocolate-laden Rice Krispie cakes at Easter.
Parents benefit from support just as much as the children, and have enthusiastically taken up the opportunity to talk to Headway Devon staff about brain injury issues, gaining valuable knowledge and insight into their children's conditions.
Most importantly, by meeting other parents at the centre, they have discovered that they are not alone.
We are now looking to the future, anticipating growth in the services that we can offer to children and young people. This can only happen with continued fundraising and awareness raising.
