Funding for the project that resulted in this report comes, in part, from a grant from the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission through the Brain Injury Advisory Committee.
The Brain Injury Advisory Committee was created under Ohio law to advise the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission and the Brain Injury Program about the unmet needs of survivors of traumatic brain injury. The mission of the Brain Injury Advisory Committee is to reduce the incidence of traumatic brain injury, to influence public policy on behalf of persons with traumatic brain injury, and to promote a system of services and supports that facilitates healthy, personally productive, and satisfying lives within their communities for persons with traumatic brain injury.
The Ohio Legal Rights Service (OLRS) also provided funding, in part, for this project, through a grant under the Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (PATBI) program, through the Children's Health Act of 2000 (PL 106-310), administered by the Maternal Child and Health Bureau of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
OLRS was created by statute in 1975 as an independent state agency mandated to advocate for and protect the rights of Ohioans with disabilities. OLRS has been designated by the Governor to provide protection and advocacy (P & A) services pursuant to various federal programs. The P & A system is a national, federally mandated system. Each state and territory of the United States has a designated agency that services as its P & A.
Additional funding for this project came from the following state agencies: the Ohio Department of Health, the Ohio Bureau or Workers' Compensation, the Ohio Department of Mental Health and the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services.
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