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NASHIA was tasked with identifying intake tools currently used across states for resource facilitation and recommending best practices for state assessment tools.

A survey was created to collect information from all state government and partner programs currently providing some level of community-based supports.

This new guide, “Practical Education and Advocacy Tools for States, Brain Injury Advisory Council Members, Brain Injury Advocates, and Providers” was created as part of NASHIA’s engagement with the Administration for Community Living's Grassroots Project, managed by the Human Services Research Institute.

In a Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC) brief, NASHIA Director of Community Integration Jill Ferrington discusses the benefits of working, despite challenges brought on by brain injury, as well as strategies for success.

This new resource, brought to you by NASHIA and the Brain Injury Association of America, seeks to provide an overview of the practical implications for the new designation of brain injury as a chronic condition by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

In collaboration with the Disability Employment Technical Assistance Center (DETAC), NASHIA Director of Professional Development Maria Crowley authored this blog highlighting the efforts of the Administration for Community Living-funded Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) State Partnership Program Transition and Employment Workgroup to create a “national, culturally competent, person-centered professional development employment training infrastructure for professionals serving the TBI community, known as Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor Competencies.”

The National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA), in partnership with the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disability Services, ADvancing States, National Association of Medicaid Directors, and National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors are excited to share a new self-assessment tool to support states in determining their current level of compliance with requirements in the final Access regulation and identifying areas where action steps are needed to achieve compliance.

The Self-Assessment Tool is available in both Word and Excel versions.

This resource provides an overview of Traumatic Brain Injury/Acquired Brain Injury (TBI/ABI) Medicaid Home and Community-Based (HCBS) waiver programs and other State options for long-term services and supports (LTSS) for individuals with brain injury who are Medicaid eligible.

The latest publication supported by the NASHIA team! Judy Dettmer, NASHIA’s Director of Technical Assistance and Special Projects assisted with this resource related to tracking outcomes of individuals released from the justice system with TBI.

All Rise's Justice for Vets has partnered with NASHIA to develop a new toolkit designed to help treatment courts better identify, assess, treat, and support individuals with acquired brain injury in their programs.

Returning to learn following a concussion is the process of managing a student’s recovery during the school day by implementation of academic supports with varying intensity. Due to a lack of consensus or even guidance on Return to Learn, this paper set out to establish cross discipline consensus on some essential elements of Return to Learn using a Delphi method.

This helpful blog article, written by Maria Crowley, NASHIA Director of Professional Development, on behalf of the Disability Employment TA Center, makes the case for job retention after brain injury.

This helpful blog article, written by Jill Ferrington, NASHIA Director of Community Engagement, on behalf of the Disability Employment TA Center, offers tips on assessments for employment planning to support people living with brain injury.

This tip card is a product of a partnership with the Addiction Technology Transfer Centers of Region 7 (Mid-America) and Region 8 (Mountain Plains) and NASHIA. It is meant for use by providers. Included in the tip card is a brief overview of brain injury, symptoms, screening, and the intersection of brain injury and substance use.

This toolkit merges the content on traumatic brain injury (TBI) and substance use disorders (SUD) to expand capacity to address both issues in treatment. The author, Dr. Carolyn Lemsky, is a board-certified neuropsychologist with over 25 years of experience working in rehabilitation settings in the U.S. and Canada. The toolkit provides valuable and practical information for advancing behavioral health providers’ capacity when serving persons who have brain injuries.

With support from the ACL TBI Program’s Waivers and Trust Fund Workgroup, NASHIA developed this primer, handout, PPT and script on funding for state brain injury programs.

With support from the ACL TBI Program’s Criminal and Juvenile Justice Workgroup, NASHIA developed this best practice guide for state brain injury programs related to brain injury and criminal and juvenile justice.

“Individuals with TBI are often ineligible for state intellectual/developmental disability (I/DD), mental health and special health care needs programs.”

A summary of State definitions and guidance for educating students with TBI-related disabilities.

Published in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, and featuring NASHIA Director of Technical Assistance and Special Projects Judy Dettmer as lead author, this white paper presents the group's consensus on the essential components of a statewide educational infrastructure to support students with traumatic brain injury across the spectrum of injury severity.

Substance use/misuse is often a contributing factor to brain injury. A history of abuse/misuse is common among individuals who have sustained a brain injury.

This fact sheet provides an overview of brain injury and opioid overdose, as well as recommendations for prevention and treatment.

Prepared by the Administration for Community Living TBI State Partnership Grant Ad Hoc Workgroup on Child Welfare. Online toolkit includes the complete Best Practices Guide, supporting materials, screening tools, fact sheets, and links to trainings and many additional resources to support implementation and learning.

Members of the Service Access Subgroup of the 2023 Moody Galveston Brain Injury Conference (MGBIC) collaborated on a white paper featuring an overview of the current status of brain injury resource facilitation (RF) along with an analysis on the challenges and opportunities in brain injury RF for acquired brain injury. The paper includes practical policy recommendations for its implementation to the potential funders of brain injury RF programs at the national, state, and community levels. Funding for the MGBIC was provided by the Moody Endowment. 

NASHIA facilitated DETAC's Show Me the Money! Accessing Medicaid Administrative Claiming for Brain Injury Services and Supports e-Learning community. This community centered on breaking down the components of MAC to help states develop the groundwork necessary to implement administrative claiming or expand existing claiming. Recordings and key takeaways are available.

NASHIA is proud to be a project partner with McMaster University as they launch the TBI Youth Justice website, a freely available resource and toolkit for and about children and youth (up to <25 years) with TBI who intersect with the criminal justice system internationally. The work of this international collaboration aims to make a difference in the trajectory and outcomes for childen and youth in the justice system around the globe.

NASHIA, in partnership with Disability Technical Assistance Center (DETAC), has released Brain Injury – Enhancing Self-Directed Choice and Control, a resource on brain injury and employment targeted for Centers for Independent Living (CILs).

NASHIA has partnered with TeachAids, a nonprofit leader in global education innovation, to distribute free state-of-the-art concussion education products to include, 1) Crashcourse Concussion Education, 2) Brain Fly-Through, and 3) Concussion Story Wall. TeachAids “research-based interactive productions are available online as standard videos and in virtual reality (free of charge) to provide athletes, parents, coaches and the sports community with the latest medical knowledge on the prevention and treatment of concussions.”