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Provides information, education, and support to assist those currently living with brain injury and their families. Advocates for polices of concern to people with brain injury. Maintains a listing of brain-injury related supports and services. Offers educational materials to both families and professionals.

Team includes professionals who have received extensive training on educating students with traumatic brain injury. Team members act as consultants and are available to provide basic training and resources to school districts and families residing in Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder and Union counties. The team provides consultation not only to students with traumatic brain injury, but also to students with non-traumatic brain injury, including strokes, tumors, lightning strike, anoxia/hypoxia and late-term chemotherapy/radiation effects on the brain.

Provides support for patients, family, and friends diagnosed with Brain Injuries.

Provides residential programming on a short-term and long-term basis for adults with post-acute brain injury and other neuropsychological conditions. Skills associated with daily routines and developed in a natural home environment through training, supervision and functional application. Skills taught may include cooking, shopping, laundry, money management, cleaning, planning and organizing leisure activities, time management, self care, transportation and interpersonal skills. Programming emphasizes individual learning.

Rehabilitation program that develops an individually tailored treatment plan that combines the resources of physical, occupational and speech/language therapists; physiatrists (physical medicine specialists); neuropsychologists/psychiatrists; cognitive rehabilitation therapists; rehabilitation nurses; vocational counselors; social workers and/or other specialists to help individuals who have been disabled by an acquired brain injury attain their maximum level of functioning and quality of life. Common disabilities experienced by ABI patients following acute treatment and medical stabilization include problems with cognition (thinking, memory, and reasoning), sensory processing (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell), communication (expression and understanding), and behavior or mental health (depression, anxiety, personality changes, aggression, acting out, and social inappropriateness). Therapy generally focuses on behavioral management, neuropsychological adaptation, environmental structuring, eating

Provides education, advocacy, supports, and research to maximize the quality of life for those with brain injuries and their families. Offers a toll free Brain Injury Resource Line (BIRL). Brain STEPS school re-entry program provides training to educators and parents to make sure they understand the effects of brain injury, the resulting challenges, and the supports and interventions that will help students with brain injuries be successful in school.

Provides a supportive and educational group for individuals recovering from brain injury or stroke. Offers open discussion, special speakers, and information.

Offers advocacy, information, support and advocacy to people affected by frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and their caregivers. Provides a helpline. Organizes Zoom and phone support groups for particular types of FTD and for the main challenges for caregivers (behavior, language, grief, and other young children). Offers Comstock Grants to full-time family FTD caregivers and persons living with FTD.

Open format and discussion with guest speakers a few times throughout the year.

Provides a structured day designed to assist the medically stable individual with a neuropsychologic impairment or acquired brain injury in developing adaptive skills that can enable him/her to resume effective community living. Focuses on specific clinical evaluations and therapies, pre-vocational needs, interpersonal and social relationships, family, community educational and work adjustments.

Offers a community-based comprehensive Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) medical outpatient program for military veterans and first responders that addresses the brain health issues associated with concussions and PTSD. Provides care for TBI and, if needed, transportation, housing, and meals with no out-of-pocket costs to patients or their families. Offers education regarding the effects of TBI to caregivers and family members.

Offers a support group for persons with brain injuries. Located in the Hospital Inpatient OT Gym.