Traumatic Brain Injury Services
Counseling for Survivors of TBI and Their Family
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Being the survivor of a traumatic brain injury, stroke or other medical condition affecting the brain often leaves the survivor with long-lasting effects. These include things like memory issues, inability to focus, anxiety, depression, adjustment issues to changes in life roles, grief at the loss of the person you were before the brain injury, and many others. The counselors at Beacon Place Mental Health Center have all received extensive training on the cause and effects of TBI and particularly the associated deficits that are sometimes undiagnosed. Our skilled clinicians will work with you to design personalized treatment plans to support you in your goals for better mental health. Therapy sessions may be held on an individual basis, with couples, families or group sessions depending on your needs.
TBI Structured Day Program for
Adults
The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Structured Day program provides a group program during day-time hours to offer therapeutic activities that assist adult survivors of TBI. The program strives to help clients maintain or improve skills that enable them to remain in a community living arrangement. Issues addressed include such things as impaired ability to focus on tasks, difficulty being able to successfully sequence tasks to completion, forgetfulness or memory impairments, decreased social skills or social isolation due to their impairments, grief and adjustment issues related to changed life roles, to name a few. Program activities include such things as music, games, discussion groups, daily and special social events, exercise, community outings, and many others. All participants are residents of Orange, Rockland, Duchess, Sullivan, Westchester, or Ulster counties in NYS and attend on a scheduled basis. The program is staffed by professionals who have all received specialized training in TBI and in working to meet the unique needs of survivors of TBI.
TBI Medicaid Waiver Participants
The Beacon Place TBI Structured Day Program became an authorized provider of TBI Medicaid Waiver services —including TBI Structured Day-- by the New York State Department of Health on 7/1/2015.
The waiver uses Medicaid funding to provide supports and services to assist individuals with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) toward successful inclusion in the community. Waiver participants may choose to move into the community from a nursing facility. Others may choose to participate in the waiver to prevent unnecessary institutionalization.
All recipients of TBI Medicaid Waiver services must first meet the following criteria: be a recipient of NYS Medicaid, have a diagnosis of traumatic brain injury, be between the ages of 18 and 64 at time of application, be assessed to need nursing home level of care as a direct result of their TBI, choose to participate in the Waiver rather than live in a nursing home, complete an application packet and initial service plan with an authorized Service Coordinator, and be approved for the TBI Waiver program by the Department of Health, Regional Resource Development Center.
The initial service plan will identify supportive community-based services to assist the individual living within the community. These noted services may include a TBI Structured Day Program. This process may seem very confusing but there are people available to help you.
You may call our Beacon Place TBI Structured Day Program Director at 845-203-1400 for assistance to connect you with the appropriate agency to begin the process. While you are waiting on the processing of your TBI Waiver application, services are available from Beacon Place Mental Health Center for counseling services conducted by TBI knowledgeable therapists.