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Comprehensive Advocacy, Inc.

Comprehensive Advocacy, Inc. Helping People with Disabilities Protect their Rights. Idaho’s Protection and Advocacy System since 1977. Presented By: Corinna H. Wolfe Advocacy Director. Protect, Promote and Advocate. Comprehensive Advocacy,Inc.

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Comprehensive Advocacy, Inc.

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  1. Comprehensive Advocacy, Inc. Helping People with Disabilities Protect their Rights Idaho’s Protection and Advocacy System since 1977 Presented By: Corinna H. Wolfe Advocacy Director Protect, Promote and Advocate

  2. Comprehensive Advocacy,Inc. • Comprehensive Advocacy, Inc. assists people with disabilities to protect, promote and advance their legal and human rights through quality legal, individual and system advocacy.

  3. Eligibility Criteria • Must be a person with a disability • Must have an issue relating to that disability

  4. Types of Cases Accepted • Must involve the denial of legal rights, service entitlements or human rights, directly related to the disability

  5. Programs • PAIMI: Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness • PADD: Protection and Advocacy for individuals with Developmental Disabilities • PAIR: Protection and Advocacy of Individual Rights • PAAT: Protection and Advocacy for Assistive Technology • CAP: Client Assistance Program • PABSS: Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security • PATBI: Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injuries

  6. Program Funding

  7. TBI Act of 1996 • Public Law 104-166 • Provide for innovative studies and programs for Traumatic Brain Injury

  8. Federal TBI Program Vision • All individuals with TBI and their families will have accessible, available, acceptable and appropriate services and supports

  9. Federal TBI Program Goals • Goal 1: Build State Capacity • Goal 2: Use promising practices • Goal 3: Sustainable systems change

  10. Reauthorization of TBI Act in 2000 • Children’s Health Act Public Law 106-310 • Added Protection and Advocacy Grants

  11. TBI P&A Grants Purpose • Information and Referral • Individual and Family Advocacy • Legal Representation • Assistance in Self-advocacy

  12. TBI P&A Grants Funding • Competitive process for federally established Protection and Advocacy Systems • Territories and the American Indian Consortium - $20,000 • States - $50,000

  13. TBI P&A Grants General Goals • Plan and assess P&A System responsiveness to TBI issues • Outreach to the brain injury community • Culturally competent person and family directed services

  14. TBI P&A Grants • Three year projects • Budget awarded annually assuming funds available

  15. TBI P&A Specific Goals • Increase staff expertise in advocacy for people with TBI • Increase capacity for advocacy services • Establish involvement of people with TBI and their families in the development of annual priorities

  16. P&A Goals cont. • Include specific TBI issues in systemic advocacy with state agencies, the state legislature and in Olmstead compliance activities • Increase and improve information and referral materials • Expand outreach activities to the TBI community

  17. Collaborations • Brain Injury Association of Idaho • Idaho State University - Institute of Rural Health

  18. For More Information Or to Make a Referral Toll-Free Contact Statewide 1-866-262-3462 (1-866-CoAdInc)

  19. Brain Injury Association of Idaho Presented by: Michelle Featherston, President www.biaid.org • "The Brain Injury Association of Idaho promotes awareness, understanding and • prevention of brain injury through support, advocacy and education based on • the expressed needs of persons effected by brain injury."

  20. Traumatic Brain Injury(TBI) • is an insult to the brain, not of degenerative or congenital nature, caused by an external physical force that may produce a diminished or altered state of consciousness, which results in an impairment of cognitive abilities or physical functioning and/or a disturbance of behavioral or emotional functioning. Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  21. Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) • is an injury to the brain which is not hereditary, congenital or degenerative and has occurred after birth. Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  22. Every 21 seconds… … a person sustains a traumatic brain injury in America. Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  23. Traumatic Brain Injury • Each year, 1.5 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury • Each year, 50,000 die and 80,000 result in long-term disability • Leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control www.cdc.gov/ncipc/ncipchm.htm Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  24. TBI Incidence A comparison of Traumatic Brain Injury and Leading Injuries or Diseases Traumatic Brain Injuries 1,500,000 2,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 Breast Cancer 176,3000 500,000 HIV/AIDS 43,681 Spinal Cord Injuries 11,000 Multiple Sclerosis 10,4000 100,000 10,000 Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  25. 5.3 million Americans… …a little more than 2 percent of the U.S. Population, currently live with disabilities from traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  26. State Population and TBI • State population in 2000: 1,293,953 • Est. TBI-related emergency department visits per year: 7,330 • Est. TBI-related hospitalizations per year: 1,386 • Est. TBI-related disability per year: 490 www.tbitac.org Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  27. Our Mission "The Brain Injury Association of Idaho promotes awareness, understanding and prevention of brain injury through support, advocacy and education based on the expressed needs of persons effected by brain injury." Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  28. Brain Injury Association of Idaho • Non-profit organization founded in 1998 • Designated State Affiliate of the Brain Injury Association of America Website: www.biausa.org • A member of the Consortium for Idahoans with Disabilities (CID) Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  29. Information & Resources • Information & Resource Help Line Phone: 208.342.0999 In-State Toll Free Ph: 1.888.374.3447 • Information Library • Articles,video tapes, pamphlets, etc. • Resource Library • Local and State resources, educational materials, etc. Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  30. Physician’s Tool Kit **New** • Heads Up: Brain Injury in Your Practice, is now available free of charge. • A new physicians tool kit to improve clinical diagnosis and management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI).  Website: www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pubres/tbi_toolkit/toolkit.htm Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  31. Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  32. Community Involvement • Mar 2002 - Capitol Jaycees Bowlathon • Bowling fundraiser • Sep 2002 - Information & Resource Booth • Idaho Steelheads Exhibition Game at Bank of America Center. Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  33. Community Involvement, cont’d • Oct 2002 - Brain Injury Awareness Month • Brain Injury Awareness Walk & Rally at Idaho Ice World. • Helmet drive • Information and resources • Guest of honor: Bonk, Idaho Steelheads Mascot Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  34. Collaborations • Comprehensive Advocacy (Co-Ad) • TBI Protection & Advocacy Grant Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  35. Collaborations-cont’d • Idaho State University (ISU) – Institute of Rural Health • Planning Grant • Implementation Grant Website: http://www.isu.edu/departments/irh/TBI/ Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  36. Collaborations-cont’d • Idaho Neurological Institute (INI) • Traumatic Brain Injury Conference Friday October 24th 2003 Boise, Idaho **Bringing Professionals and Family Members together** Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  37. Our Mission "The Brain Injury Association of Idaho promotes awareness, understanding and prevention of brain injury through support, advocacy and education based on the expressed needs of persons effected by brain injury." Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  38. Contact us today! Let’s maximize our resources, together. Become a member! Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  39. Membership Benefits • Quarterly newsletter • “TBI Challenge”, the Brain Injury Association of America’s bi-monthly newsletter • State and National conference information • Access our information & resource library • Contribute to the lives of individuals and families affected by brain injury through involvement. Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  40. Prevention… …is the only CURE! Brain Injury Association of Idaho

  41. Brain Injury Association of Idaho Address: P.O. Box 414 Boise, ID 83701 Phone: 208.342.0999 In-State Toll Free Ph: 1.888.374.3447 E-mail: info@biaid.org Website: www.biaid.org Brain Injury Association of Idaho

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