Stroke Recovery Association of BC

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Stroke Recovery Association of BC

• Community Reintegration

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STROKE RECOVERY ASSOCIATIONOF BRITISH COLUMBIA

• Mission Statement
• Through its local Stroke Recovery Branches, the
  Association is committed to assisting stroke
  survivors and their caregivers throughout the
  Province to improve their overall quality of
  life.

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Who We Are

• SRABC is a non-profit society, incorporated under
  the Society Act of British Columbia.
• The Executive Director, acts as the chief
  operating officer for SRABC
• Executive Board of Directors
• Provincial Office Team
• Community Branch Coordinators

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Objectives

• Manage and support Branches throughout BC
• Distribute Branches in underserved communities
  and create capacity
• Disseminating educational and informational
  materials to the local Stroke Recovery branches,
  and community
• Providing a branch network and forum for the
  exchange of information and ideas across the
  organization

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39 Branches throughout BC

• A Branch of the Stroke Recovery Association is a
  post-hospital, peer support group for stroke
  survivors and their families. Activities are
  designed to enable stroke survivors to live
  independently at home.
• Philosophy Persons affected by stroke should
  thrive not simply survive.

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Stroke Recovery Branches offer

• Speech Maintenance
• Exercise Programs
• Education Stroke Prevention, Stroke Care
• Social Recreational Activities
• Caregiver Support
• Programs to improve memory skills

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Exercise Programming

• Exercise class taught by a physiotherapist or
  exercise trainer
• Exercise class taught by a volunteer or the
  Coordinator
• Functional-based and Team Activities such as
  Bocce, Horseshoes, Baseball, Hockey, etc

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Speech Maintenance Programming

• One to one speech therapy offered by a
  speech-language pathologist
• Communication program offered by a speech
  language pathologist
• Computer Communication program offered by
  volunteers ( Bungalow)

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Caregiver Support

• Caregivers Support Group
• One to one with caregivers by
  volunteers and/or Coordinator
• Encourage caregivers to use Branch days as
  respite

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Additional Programs Activities

• Outreach Programs
• Peer Mentoring Program Pilot 10 mentors
• Outreach Hospital Visitation programs
• Music Therapy led by Music Therapists
• Social Activities - Entertainment, Picnics
  
• Annual Strides for Strokes Walk
• Arts Crafts- Joint Branch events

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Partnerships

• Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC and Yukon
• Provincial Stroke Strategy
• Regional Stroke Strategies
• Provincial Health Services Authority
• Regional Health Authorities
• Gaming Commission

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Branch Outreach Evaluation

• Goal
• Review Branch Outreach Programs awareness
  strategies to obtain baseline information,
• identify strengths of outreach, gaps in service,
  barriers to providing outreach programs and
  recommendations for change.

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Branch Outreach Evaluation

• Approach
• Literature review on outreach and Peer Support
  programs
• Focus groups and one-to-one telephone interviews
  with Branch Coordinators and Directors.
• Primarily qualitative data

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Branch Outreach Evaluation

• Expected Outcomes
• Deliver a best practice model of outreach for
  stroke recovery branches.
• Provide a process for branches to implement
  outreach programs
• Clear understanding of barriers and ways to
  overcome them.
• Evaluation framework to measure impact of
  outreach, both qualitative and quantitative

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Accomplishments

• Membership
• Heart Stroke Foundation support
• Provincial Stroke Strategy
• Strategic Plan

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Challenges

• Case Management for Stroke Survivors in the
  community
• Post Stroke linkages to physicians, hospital and
  rehabilitation providers and community agencies
• Community Development

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Next Steps

• Strategic Plan
• Better Structure
• Expansion Plan
• Move

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PROVINCIAL OFFICE

• Hours of OperationMonday to Friday 9am- 4pm.
• Phone [phone]
• Toll Free 1-888-313-3377
• Fax [phone]
• Address303-1212 Broadway
• Vancouver, BC V6B 1S5Email office_at_strokerecovery
  bc.ca