With inconsistent support for brain injuries in Canada, peer groups are a lifeline

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It’s early December and Barb Butler is handing out photocopied, handwritten notes to the group seated in a circle around her with the date and time of the holiday pizza party — “for those of you who have trouble with memory, which is all of you.”

Humour is a constant presence at these meetings at a branch of the Regina Public Library. New attendees of the Saskatchewan Brain Injury Association survivor support group receive a pin that says, “Hi, I can’t remember your name either!”

The group’s premise is simple: shared experience, mutual support, companionship, some fun and fundraising.

“This group means friendship to me,

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