One of Ontario’s Most Overlooked Health Issues Is Getting a Flag This June
For one Ontario family, everything changed when their two-year-old son was struck by a car and sustained a severe, life-altering brain injury.
His mother cared for him for nearly three decades, navigating a system that often did not fully recognize or understand what brain injury meant for his daily life. Through that journey, she saw how easily people living with brain injury are misunderstood, overlooked, or not taken seriously.
After her son’s passing, she chose to turn that experience into action.
Working with the Ontario Brain Injury Association (OBIA) and community brain injury associations across the province, she supported a provincial effort to raise flags during Brain Injury Awareness Month, so that brain injury would be more widely recognized and understood.
