Ohio Domestic Violence Network
The Ohio Domestic Violence Network provides statewide, national and international leadership to raise awareness on the emerging area of brain injury caused by domestic violence. Find resources, promising practices, and checklists on their website.
Tip Card - What Providers Need to Know: Behavioral Health and 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.
Disability Employment TA Center: Guiding People with Brain Injuries Towards Work
Become a Champion for Employment: Guiding People with Brain Injuries Towards Work is a resource for supporting individuals with a brain injury to continue or pursue work.
Toolkit and Workbook— Traumatic Brain Injury and Substance Use Disorders: Making the Connections
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. The toolkit is a collaboration with the Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center and the Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center and the National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA).
The accompanying workbook is created for people with are living with the effects of a brain injury and are wondering how their substance use may be affecting them.
Disability Employment TA Center: You CAN Work After Brain Injury
You Can Work After Brain Injury: Improving your Employment Success is a resource for individuals who have experienced a brain injury and want to continue or pursue work.
SAMHSA Advisory: Treating Patients with TBI
“Each year in the US traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in approximately 2.8 million emergency department visits, hospitalizations, or deaths.’
Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL)
The Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL) connects callers to information about how to access the COVID-19 vaccine and related supports for people with disabilities. DIAL connects callers to vaccine sites, testing, and provides information related to barriers to vaccination by referring callers to local and national disability resources. Call: 888-677-1199 from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM ET | DIAL@n4a.org
What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws
From the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a technical assistance question and answer document regarding disability and employment law during COVID-19.
TeachAids Concussion Education Product Suite
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.”
Brain Injury and COVID-19: Tips for Successful Navigation
“While research to date has focused on potential neurological impairment to COVID-19 patients, little attention has been placed on the effects of the fallout caused by COVID-19 on individuals who are living with brain injury.”
OSU: Discovery through Community Research Partnerships
This nine minute video, shared by Dr. Julianna Nemeth with The Ohio State University community, highlights how the strong partnership between ODVN and OSU discovered a huge unidentified public health crisis--brain injury caused by interpersonal violence, including partner-inflicted brain injury--as well as ODVN's CARE framework to meet the needs of survivors impacted by brain injury in DV programs.
Brain Check Survey (BCS)
This parent-completed screening tool, from the Life Outcomes after Brain Injury research center within the Department of Occupational Therapy at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, is used to establish a credible history of brain injury.
Physicians Tip Card for Patients Living with Brain Injury
Published by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) in 2021, this tip card for patients living with brain injury is geared towards physicians.
Supporting A Trained Direct Care Workforce
The direct care workforce is a critical component of a well-functioning health system. These occupations are reliable entry points into the health sector, but limited wage potential as well as physical and emotional demands of the jobs contribute to high turnover and shortages. This article from the National Governor’s Association, Supporting A Trained Direct Care Workforce In Facility Settings During And After The Covid-19 Pandemic, discusses solutions.
Demystifying 508 Compliance
The purpose of this guide is to demystify 508 compliance and help you think through how to structure your document from the beginning to help ensure it will achieve 508 compliance. This guide condenses the best practices in 508 compliance as it relates to the documents and processes you as a state Brain Injury Program primarily use: Word, PowerPoint, and PDF.
COVID-19 Resources for Schools, Students, and Families
Department of Education COVID-19 resources for states, communities, educators, and families. These resources include guidance and policies related to elementary and secondary education, special education, postsecondary education, and other aspects of lifelong learning.
NASMHPD Brief: TBI and Behavioral Health Treatment by Dr. John Corrigan
This article is intended to raise awareness about TBI while simultaneously introducing key concepts for accommodating the effects of TBI in behavioral health care.
Preventing Suicidal Behavior After TBI
The rate of suicide for Veterans with moderate to severe TBI was 136 per 100,000 person-years, compared with 37 per 100,000 person-years for Veterans without TBI.
Funding State Brain Injury Programs: A Primer on State Brain Injury Trust Fund and Medicaid HCBS Programs
With support from the ACL TBI Program’s Waivers and Trust Fund Workgroup, NASHIA developed this primer on funding for state brain injury programs.
Criminal and Juvenile Justice Best Practice Guide and Supporting Materials
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.