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xxxxxService Coordination helps clients through the maze of services and ensures their needs are being met through person-centered planning. An individual plan of services is constructed and reviewed every six months to ensure goals are being optimally addressed.
xxxxxIndependent Living Skills Training helps individuals learn strategies to adapt to challenges from TBI by devising routines and modifications to improve daily functioning. Individuals set their goals to enhance satisfaction with their lives.
xxxxxCognitive Remediation involves training to improve basic cognitive skills, such as attention and concentration, planning and problem solving, memory, impulse control, and stress reduction.
xxxxxStructured Day Program allows clients to work on individual goals within a group setting. Communication and social interactional skills are bolstered through a variety of recreational and learning activities that are tailored to individual tastes and needs. A Prevocational program option is offered that targets those skills needed to function more independently.
xxxxxCommunity Integration Counseling helps individuals, and often families, adapt to changes in their lives due to TBI and adjustment issues.
xxxxxBrain Injury Support Group is held every last Wednesday of the month from 4:00-5:00 at the United Way building on Tom Miller Road in Plattsburgh (near the overpass for the Northway, Route 87). The support group is open to individuals with brain injury and/or family members and/or friends. Everyone is welcome!
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Sudden Impact newsletter edited by TBI survivor, Richard Clark, is published and distributed quarterly. Contact Richard Clark to place your name on the mailing list.
Funding for Services is available to eligible adults with TBI and other neurological disorders as well as developmental impairment through the following New York State Programs:
l Department of Health Home and Community Based Services for individuals with TBI (HCBS/TBI) Waiver serves people who had a brain injury (age 18+).
l Office of Persons With And Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) serves adults and children with TBI or other neurological impairment (childhood onset).
Contact a Service Coordinator for self-pay options for specific services of interest.