Head Injury Information on Community Inclusion

Providing families with information about brain injury is a major step toward helping them understand the physical, cognitive, behavioral and emotional changes as they rebuild their lives.

Designed especially for families when an adult member has a brain injury, this Tool Kit contains books, manuals, a DVD and tip cards on traumatic brain injury. Case managers, life care planners and attorneys can use this tool kit to…

• Educate families about the consequences of brain injury
• Help prepare families to coordinate and manage care and services,/li>
• Use compensatory strategies and therapeutic activities at home
• Explore the impact of the brain injury on employment

Case managers and life care planners will find this Tool Kit valuable for…

• Guiding families and survivors through the complexities of care and services
• Partnering with families and clients in the management and coordination of care
• Increasing the knowledge and skills of families

Multimedia tool kit on employment of adults after brain injury provides practical information for families, adults, case managers, and vocational counselors on working after brain injury. It includes a full vocational training curriculum with CD that includes all materials for sessions and homework. Forty tip cards are provided to raise awareness about pros and cons of employment, preparations for job seeking, vocational services, negotiating accommodations with employers, and discrimination.

Filled with practical information on difficult questions of...What happens next? How will we go on as a family? What does this mean? How can I help? A great resource for rehabilitation programs, brain injury associations and community agencies…something for everyone in the family. Includes 6 books.

Book on marital stress and adjustment for families when a spouse has a brain injury. Discusses emotional trauma for family, grieving, mourning, parenting, and caregiving after severe head trauma.

This book is included in the Family and Adult Tool Kit on Traumatic Brain Injury.

Blast injury, PTSD and brain injury guide for families and caregivers on the consequences of concussion in veterans. Used by many VA Hospitals and Army Medical Facilities.

This guide is included in the Troops and Veterans Tool Kit on Blast Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Concussion and PTSD.

This guide is included in the Chaplain and Counselor Tool Kit on Helping Families after Brain Injury.