Causes: Education, Health, Health Care, Human Services, Public & Societal Benefit
Mission: Creating resources for changing what occurs when brain injury endures. Nevada Brain Injury (NBI) is a resource for improving change for brain-injured individuals, their families, caregivers, professional providers, and institutions of service in the state of Nevada. Through interconnected networking, programs for education and advocacy, and functions of support, our innovative focus is designed to provide for the health and ability over the disability of brain injury.
Results: Online Support Group for CaregiversBrain Coaching for Individuals and groupsSupport services for familiesDeveloping Public Awareness CampaignDeveloping System Network for Community/statewide resourcesDeveloping Brain Injury Community Center
Target demographics: Individuals, families, and caregivers of brain injury with resources that endure when brain injury occurs.
Direct beneficiaries per year: We opened in January 2020
Geographic areas served: Las Vegas and Nevada
Programs: After the hospitals and initial stages of rehabilitation, Nevada Brain Injury offers support group services for caregivers and is developing a brain injury community center. We create public awareness of brain injury, assemble and provide a resource directory for services, information, and products, and internal education for individual secondary rehabilitation to find new purpose, and caregiver and family support services.