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Resources for Families

FAMILY VIDEO |Essential Reading | Select Articles | Reading List | Other Resources | Links

Family Video

CORE Family Trainer

Essential Reading

Important First Steps Following a Traumatic Brain Injury
English / Espanol

Brain Injury: A Booklet for Families
English / Espanol

Select Articles

Care Giver Coping Strategies

The Alliance: The Importance of Relationships

Caring for the Care Giver

Issues for Seniors with Mental Illness Need Special Consideration

How To Choose A Healthcare Provider or Facility

Choosing the Right Caregiver Support Group

Coping with Chronic Pain

Financial Planning for Special Needs Care: Special Needs Trusts (SNTs)

Schizophrenia Patients' Insensitivity to Pain Can Result in Medical Complications

Adjustment issues in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Reading List

Living with a Brain Injury: A Guide for Families by Richard C. Senellick, MD and Karla Dougherty

Traumatic Head Injury: Cause, Consequence, and Challenge by Dennis P. Swiercinsky, PhD, Terrie L. Price, PhD and Lief Erick Leaf, PhD

When a Parent has a Brain Injury: Sons and Daughters Speak Out by Marilyn Lash, MSW

Proud Child, Safer Child: A Handbook for Parents and Caregivers of Disabled Children by Merry Cross

Planning for the Future: Providing a Meaningful Life for a Child with a Disability After Your Death by L. Mark Russell, attorney and Arnold E. Grant, attorney

Over My Head by Claudia Osborn

Coping with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Diane Roberts Stoler, EdD and Barbara Albers Hill

A Guide for Families: Living with Stroke by Richard C. Senelick, MD and Karla Dougherty

God Isn't Finished with Me Yet by Kathy Hughes

CORE Newsletter March 2008

CORE Newsletter December 2007

Other Resources

 

Links

www.biausa.org
National Brain Injury Association

www.biatx.org
Texas Brain Injury Association

www.attendantnetwork.org
Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, El Paso, Houston, and San Antonio need attendant care

www.advocacyinc.org
advocacy

www.yourtickettowork.com
vocational

www.rehab.state.tx.us
Texas Rehabilitation Commission now known as the
Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services

www.capitol.state.tx.us/fyi/fyi.htm
Who represents you in Texas? – legislative contact information

www.dpctexas.org/dpctx2002
The Disability Policy Consortium

www.ci.austin.tx.us/hrights
Austin Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities

http://www.caringbridge.org/
Free, personalized websites that support and connect loved ones during critical illness, treatment and recovery

Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) accreditation has been awarded to CORE Health Care for the Residential Rehabilitation Brain Injury Programs for Adults.