Chapter 11: Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Community Outreach Program (PABICOP)

The Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Community Outreach Program (PABICOP) is an outreach program in Southwestern Ontario for children and adolescents with an acquired brain injury and their families. PABICOP is designed to complement services that are already available within each child/adolescent’s own community. Community participation is key to program functioning. PABICOP regards the child/family and their community as the real “experts”, encouraging and supporting as much community partnership as possible. “We want children and youth to be reintegrated into their home, school and community with relevant supports that are local and not based in a tertiary health care setting” (Sara Somers, Community Outreach Coordinator for PABICOP, Personal communication, September 21, 2010).