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You're invited to an evening of art, music, food and good company …

Edgemere Estates 1502 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville
An extraordinary fundraising event at the fabulous Edgemere Estates, a 12-acre Lakeshore property in the heart of Oakville. Featuring a selection of hors d'oeuvres by four of Oakville's top restaurants, a Black Box Chocolate Competition – the "Battle of the Chocolate Chefs" and a live art auction, silent auction and fabulous raffle items. Entertainment by local musicians including a performance by three young up and coming Canadian talents at a special Candlelight Vigil in honour of Brain Injury Awareness Month. Guests will include several prominent authors and politicians, along with members of the legal community, health care providers, representatives of the insurance industry, brain injury survivors, leading local business individuals and invited celebrities.
Register here to attend BIAPH's 2nd Annual "Une Affaire de Chocolat"
Our Host	Tickets $75 or $100 at the door.

BIAPH seeks your support for its Corporate Fundraiser on June 3, 2010 – The Second Annual "Une Affaire de Chocolat." I invite you to partner with the Brain Injury Association of Peel & Halton in hosting an extraordinary fundraising event at the fabulous Edgemere Estates, a 12-acre Lakeshore property in the heart of Oakville, on Thursday, June 3, 2010. We are bringing together, members of the legal community, health care community, insurance industry, brain injury survivors, local business persons and politicians. We have invited the leading local restaurants to serve their most delicious appetizers and all will be entertained by local musicians and opera singers. The evening will also include a black box cooking demonstration and competition for delectable chocolate creations that will be judged by our Platinum Level sponsors. In addition, there will be a live art auction, silent auction and fabulous raffle items.

We are currently seeking sponsors for the event and can offer you substantial recognition in return for your donations. The benefits associated with sponsorship are detailed In the Sponsorship Sheet.

In the event that you are unable to sponsor our fundraising event, we invite you to consider donating items for our silent or live auction.

We look forward to receiving confirmation of your sponsorship level. A charitable donation receipt for the maximum amount permitted by law, will be available, if requested.

In order to ensure that you are able to benefit from a full recognition of your sponsorship, we would need to be notified by Friday, April 16, 2010 to include your logo in our ticket brochure.

June is Brain Injury Awareness Month and a candlelight vigil will be part of the event. We hope that many of our "survivors" will join us. If you are not able to use all tickets in your package, we kindly ask that you allow us to donate these tickets on your behalf to our ABI survivors.

Close to half a million Ontarians currently live with an acquired brain injury (ABI), and 18,000 new cases are added every year. Brain injury is significantly more prevalent than breast cancer, spinal cord injury and HIV/AIDS. And yet, ABI survivors are largely invisible to the general public and forgotten in the Province's health care and social services system.

Ontario's health care system does a great job of patching people up in the immediate aftermath of their injury but, once they are released from hospitals and rehab facilities, ABI survivors are often left on their own.

With no comprehensive system in place, many ABI survivors fall through the cracks. Based on preliminary findings from a new research study, it is estimated that slightly more than half (53 percent) of homeless people in Toronto have histories of brain injury.

Preliminary findings from a study on the inappropriate placement of ABI survivors, found that 44 percent of the prison population in Ontario also have a history of brain injury. As well, ABI survivors are often inappropriately placed in long-term care homes and psychiatric hospitals. There, without specialized treatment, any progress they achieved in rehab is usually lost. Meanwhile, children with ABI often go undiagnosed in the school system and are mislabelled and misunderstood. It is estimated that there are some 27,000 children with ABI in Ontario's schools.

Over the last decade, advances in medical technology have resulted in a dramatic increase in life expectancy for persons with brain injuries, which means the number of people living with ABI in our communities is increasing every year.

The Mission of the Brain Injury Association of Peel & Halton – BIAPH – is to enhance the quality of life for persons in the Regions of Peel and Halton who are living with the effects of acquired brain injury, through:

• Education
• Awareness
• Support
• Advocacy
• Prevention

BIAPH is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Together with the Executive Director, who reports to the Board at monthly meetings, programs are developed, delivered and evaluated. Since BIAPH does not receive any government funding, we rely on corporate sponsors, donations and fundraising events to continue doing the work that we do.

I thank you for your consideration. I would be very pleased to speak to you further about this worthwhile fundraising event.

Yours very truly,

Jorun Rucels
Executive Director
Brain Injury Association of Peel & Halton
E-mail: jorun.rucels@biaph.com

• Sponsorship Levels

Gary Will, Lawyer, Board Member, Brain Injury Association of Peel and Halton

Hon. Terence Young, MP, Oakville and Published Author of: 'Death by Prescription'

His Worship Mayor Rob Burton, Invited Guest, Office of the Mayor, Town of Oakville

His Worship Mayor Cam Jackson, Invited Guest, Office of the Mayor, City of Burlington

Acclaimed jazz musician Paul Lamoureux

Toronto FC soccer star Chad Barrett

All members are invited to our AGM.

Please contact the office by June 5^th if you are planning to attend.

Light refreshments will be served.

More information and location to follow.