{"id":10884,"date":"2015-05-15T18:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/province-announces-3-million-in-funding-for-british-columbians-with-brain-injuries\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:57","slug":"province-announces-3-million-in-funding-for-british-columbians-with-brain-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/province-announces-3-million-in-funding-for-british-columbians-with-brain-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Province announces $3 million in funding for British Columbians with brain injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-filefield field-field-main-photo\">\u00a0Minister of Health Terry Lake has announced $3 million in funding over three years to The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/braininjuryalliance.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brain Injury Alliance<\/a>\u00a0to support those with brain injuries.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis investment will touch a lot of lives\u201d said John Simpson, from the Brain Injury Alliance. \u201cWe are grateful to the province of BC for supporting our work, and helping service providers across the province to continue making a difference in their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Alliance will distribute the funding to organizations in two stages. In the first stage, $10,000 will be issued to each of the province\u2019s 16 community-based, non-profit brain-injury service providers to help with operational costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrain injury has the ability to shatter lives,\u201d said Terry Lake. \u201cLeft untreated, it can lead to issues that affect the whole community, which is why the funding provided to the Brain Injury Alliance is so important, to make sure help goes to those who need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheknews.ca\/province-announces-3-million-in-funding-for-british-columbians-with-brain-injuries-93169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the major funding announcement for The Brain Injury Alliance here&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Minister of Health Terry Lake has announced $3 million in funding over three years to The\u00a0Brain Injury Alliance\u00a0to support those with brain injuries. \u201cThis investment will touch a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}