The primary purposes of the community are to optimise both needs ascertainment and plan fidelity for NDIS participants with an acquired brain injury (ABI).
As with previous meetings of the community, there’ll be a learning and development component. This meeting will be devoted to alcohol-related brain injury. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2016, 1 in 5 respondents drank at levels that exceeded the lifetime risk of harm from alcohol-related disease or injury.
This meeting will be addressed by Dr. Mark Montebello - the Clinical Director and Senior Staff Specialist in Addiction Medicine and Psychiatry at Drug and Alcohol Services for Northern Sydney Local Health District – and colleagues Veronica Clipsham, a clinical psychologist for Hospital’s Inpatient Alcohol and Other Drug Services and Sarah Blakemore, a Senior Occupational Therapist with the Hospital’s Involuntary and Voluntary Drug and Alcohol Inpatient Unit.
As with all meetings of the community attendees are encouraged to present de-identified case studies of Scheme participants, for discussion by the group – which, alongside Dr. Montebello and colleagues, includes the community’s Clinical Lead Dr. Kath McCarthy - a rehabilitation physician specialising in traumatic brain injury – and its Allied Health Representative Robina Jones, the Senior Social Worker at the Liverpool Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit – the largest specialist brain injury rehabilitation facility in Australia.
We will also provide you with an update on the Pathways Program including enhancements to the Complex Support Needs pathway.
