Brain Injury Alliance Training Grants are available only to Alliance Member Organizations.
Organizations can apply for (1) training grant for maximum of $15,000.00
Priority will be given to:
1. Cultural sensitivity training
2. Training in trauma informed services
3. Training that will benefit the provision of services to people with brain injury.
Brain Injury Alliance funding may not be used to fund clients or programs who are funded by, or operate strictly on, a fee for service basis.
Completed applications must be received by the Brain Injury Alliance no later than midnight on September 30, 2024.
(For training from October 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025)
PLEASE NOTE: Deadlines may change in 2025
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Applications can be emailed to the Brain Injury Alliance.
Guidelines
Training can be provided to:
- Senior staff and decision-makers (including directors on your board)
- Staff that work in any of your programs that serve people with brain injury (not just staff that work in Alliance funded programs)
- Volunteers, including peer workers.
- Some cultural sensitivity training may also be appropriate for the people that your agency serves.
Grant Funds can include the costs of:
- Course fees (On-line or Zoom programs preferred)
- Locally available training, (especially training that is relevant to the provision of services to local indigenous people and communities)
- Includes per diems, honoraria etc. paid to an Indigenous Elder.
- Attendance at conferences can be applied for, but would not be considered a priority.
- Supernumerary wage costs only
Definition: If the position requires an alternate employee to be paid to work that position in the incumbent’s absence payment of wage costs
associated with this back-fill coverage is a supernumerary wage cost. Rationale is required. - Travel (within BC only) by the least expensive means possible
- Rent – Reasonable venue costs. Rationale is required.
- Food – Reasonable food costs at events
- Administration Fees – 10% up to $1500.00 max
- Reasonable requests for other direct costs (details will be required)
Grant Funds May Not be Used for:
- Out of province travel
- Event/Conference sponsorship
- Hourly bill-out rates for contractors, board members etc.
- Per diems for staff, non-paid program participants such as volunteers or clients of the agency
- Board development or strategic planning
- Fees to pay for the registration fees and other costs for an agency’s own staff members etc. to attend a community event facilitated or co-facilitated by a member agency.
- Training to be delivered outside of the October 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025 granting
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Training Examples
(not limited to these suggestions)
Cultural Safety Training
- San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training
- Island Health’s Cultural Safety Online Course: Indigenous Health Cultural Safety
- Indigenous Public Health Program (UBC)
- Additional resources and online courses
- Indigenous Corporate Training: The History of Indigenous Corporate Training Inc.
Trauma Informed Practice
- My Training BC: Compassionate Learning Communities: Supporting Trauma-Informed Practice
- Crisis Centre of BC: Crisis Response, Suicide, Awareness and Responding to Distress Workshops
- Vancouver Island Crisis Line: Crisis Intervention Skills Training
- Additional resources and online courses
Reporting Deadlines
DUE July 15, 2025 for October 1 to June 30, 2025
Statistical, impact information and stories will be required
Training Categories
- Training Courses: ‘packaged’ programs, usually available on-line, and are usually costed at a certain dollar amount per participant;
- Training Events: One-off programs, often made available locally or regionally, where there is a fee for a facilitator, elders and/or other trainers etc., as well as possible fees for a venue and/or food. In order to maximize the opportunities for actual training time applicants are encouraged to use their own space and/or free or low-cost local space rather than expensive commercial spaces;
- Other: If you have a program that does not meet these two training formats please provide a detailed program description, responding to all the required fields. Development of training content would be included in this third, ‘other’ category.