Articles

Safeguarding in ABI Community Integration: Preventing Exploitation, Harm and Placement Breakdown

Community integration increases exposure to exploitation, unsafe relationships and environmental risks, particularly where ABI affects insight, judgement and vulnerability. This article explains how providers build safeguarding into day-to-day community participation...

Supporting Employment Pathways After ABI: Employer Engagement, Adjustments and Sustained Job Retention

Employment after ABI is rarely a straight line, and job offers can fail without structured employer engagement and day-to-day adjustments. This article sets out how providers build employment pathways that...

Measuring Outcomes in ABI Community Integration: Evidencing Progress Beyond Attendance

Attendance alone does not evidence meaningful community integration in ABI. This article explains how providers measure real outcomes linked to independence, confidence and quality of life. It sets out practical...

Risk Enablement in ABI Community Integration: Balancing Safety, Autonomy and Legal Accountability

Community integration in ABI inevitably involves risk, but avoiding risk entirely leads to isolation and dependency. This article explains how providers design defensible risk enablement approaches that support autonomy while...

Community Partnerships in ABI: Designing Safe, Sustainable Integration With VCSE, Housing and Local Systems

ABI community integration relies on local systems: VCSE groups, leisure providers, transport, housing, and multi-agency safeguarding. This article explains how providers build partnerships that are safe, role-clear and defensible, with...

Building Employment Pathways in ABI: Supported Employment, Volunteering and Defensible Risk Enablement

Employment and meaningful occupation are core recovery outcomes in ABI, but they require structured pathways, not hopeful referrals. This article sets out how providers design supported employment and volunteering pathways...

Measuring Outcomes in ABI Community Integration: Evidence, Impact and Sustainability

Outcomes in ABI community integration must demonstrate more than activity delivered. This article explains how providers measure, evidence and report meaningful occupation and community participation outcomes that stand up to...

Governing Community Integration in ABI: Risk Enablement, Safeguarding and Defensible Practice

Community integration in ABI services exposes people to opportunity and risk at the same time. This article explains how providers govern community integration and meaningful occupation in a way that...

Supporting Employment Outcomes After ABI: Risk-Enabled Work Readiness, Adjustments and Sustainment

Employment after ABI requires structured work readiness, safe role matching and governance-led risk enablement, not rushed “return to work” promises. This article sets out how providers build employment and meaningful...

Designing Community Integration Pathways in ABI: From Rehabilitation to Real-World Roles

Community integration after acquired brain injury (ABI) is not a “nice to have” — it is core to recovery, identity and long-term risk reduction. This article explains how providers design...