C-277 – The National Strategy on Brain Injuries Act – creates a strategy to raise awareness on brain injuries and help people recover from and live with them.
The Strategy
The Minister of Health will work with provincial representatives, Indigenous communities, and other relevant stakeholders to establish a strategy that will include measures to:
- Promote measures to prevent brain injuries
- Identify the training healthcare providers need to help people recovering from and living with brain injuries
- Improve research and data collection on brain injuries, their frequency, causes, and treatment
- Improve the sharing of information on brain injuries and their treatment
- Create national guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of brain injuries
- Promote public awareness and understanding of brain injuries
- Improve collaboration and provide financial support to groups that help people living with brain injuries
- Encourage consultations with mental health professionals, especially in sports and workplaces where brain injuries occur, to provide a support system for people suffering from brain injuries
- Identify challenges caused by brain injury, such as mental health issues, addiction, criminality, and homelessness and develop solutions to them
- Work with Brain Injury Canada to maintain a website with information on brain injuries and the best practices for treating and living with them
- Establish a task force to make recommendations for the national strategy
Reports
The Minister will have one year to create this strategy and present it to the House. Every three years after that they’ll need to report back on the strategy’s effectiveness.
Progress of C-277
C-277 is currently waiting for its Second Reading vote.