Brain Injury Society: Goals

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Manhattan
19 West 34th Street
Suite Penthouse
Between 5th and 6th Avenue
Manhattan, NY

Goals

Serving Acquired (Includes Traumatic)
Brain Injured Individuals and Their Families

Mailing & Billing Address Only:
1901 Avenue N - Suite 5E
Brooklyn, NY 11230
Clinicial and Administrative Office:
1517 Voorhies Avenue - Suite 1G
Btwn Sheepshead Bay & Q Train Station
Brooklyn, NY 11235
Telephone & Helpline: 718-645-4401

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Aims

Educational programs to encourage learning and development

Maintenance programs to promote self esteem and stabilization of strategies and techniques learned from rehabilitation program training.

Peer Resource Support Groups in New York City Boroughs and in Downstate New York

Complete Healing Center

First Stage
Third Stage

Vocational programs for survivors to learn new skills, develop new techniques and strategies, coping strategies and maintain ones that have been successfully incorporated into life of the brain injured individual and family members.

Individual counseling programs to deal with trauma of brain injury, disease or illness.

Networking groups for recovered brain injured individuals and family.

Medical, psychological, psychiatric evaluations and counseling

Facial, joint and muscle pain exacerbated due to a brain injury
Neuropsychiatry
Neuropsychology
Pain Management
Physiatry
Social Work
Speech
Vestibular
Vision

Established

Regular scheduled public symposia

Topics include focus on

Stroke, brain tumors, brain diseases
Traumatic Brain Injury
Epilepsy
Legal Issues pertaining to the TBI, worker's compensation, personal injury, accident cases, insurance, medical exams, anoxia and forceps delivery, no fault, exclusion of benefits pertaining to conjugative re-mediation, reimbursement schedule
Pediatric Issues
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Therapies
Resources
Vocational Programs

Speaker's Bureau

Peer Resource Support Groups

Referrals to medical, neuropsychologists, pharmachologists, rehabilitation hospitals and facilities and multidiscipline therapists

Networking with recovered brain injured individuals, families, professionals

Professional Membership Resource Director

National and International Chapters

Plus

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