State Action Plan Goals & Objectives - Ciclt.net

Activity 3: Educate advocates, including people with brain injuries and their families, and advocacy
organizations regarding research outcomes and funding recommendations.
Objective 3: Advocate for changes in funding policies to ensure coverage of necessary and appropriate
therapeutic services.
Activity 1: Engage stakeholders and advocacy groups to lobby legislators.
Activity 2: Provide research data and funding recommendations to interested parties.
Activity 3: Present to rehab. professional groups, nonprofit organizations, and interested stakeholders
research data and funding recommendations.
Activity 4: Work with Children’s Medical Services to add brain injury to their list of eligible conditions.
Goal 3: Increase opportunities for children, youth, and adults with brain injuries, particularly those who live in rural areas
and do not have access to specialized brain injury rehabilitation, to reach optimal physical, cognitive and psychological
functioning through increased access to high-quality, age-appropriate rehabilitation and care.
Objective 1: Provide training and consultation to local rehabilitation hospitals and centers that do not specialize in
brain injury rehabilitation and care.
Activity 1: Develop mobile resource and consultation teams at the state and local level, as well as
telerehab programs, to provide training in brain injury rehabilitation and care.
Activity 2: Focus training efforts (see Training & Awareness: Goal 3) on rehabilitation providers in rural
areas.
Objective 2: Advocate for the development of standards for brain injury rehabilitation, particularly children with
brain injuries.
Objective 3: Identify methods to publicize CARF-accredited rehabilitation programs to assist people with brain
injuries and their families in choosing high-quality, age-appropriate, brain injury rehabilitation and care.
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