Project BRAIN Receives Grant Award
Submitted by Todd Hash on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 11:07am.
Excitement is in the air and we couldn’t wait to share the news with you …
The Tennessee Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Program & Project BRAIN are happy to announce that they have received an award notification of the TBI Implementation Partnership Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Federal TBI Program.
The TBI Program is partnering with TN’s Department of Education, Division of Special Education, who is providing the funding match requirement to implement the grant award. The grant is being administered through a contract with the Tennessee Disability Coalition.
The goal of HRSA & the Federal TBI Program is to allow States and Territories to focus on their resources and needs in providing individuals with TBI and their families with a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and easily accessible system of care.
The purpose of Project BRAIN’s Implementation Partnership grant is to build upon the capacities developed in the original and post demonstration grants; to incorporate best practices in the field; and to establish sustained systems that will effect lasting change in brain injury services.
AWARD NO.: 2 H21MC06739-04-00 GRANT NO.: H21MC06739
Edits from the Grant Application Narrative, 2009:
Goal: Expand on Project BRAIN’s capacity to improve the linkage between hospitals and schools in the development of supports for children and youth with traumatic BRAIN injury.
Objective: Develop and implement a hospital-school transition intervention which will provide hospitals with a simple, consistent process for linking patients with TBI and their parents with school personnel in three hospitals by March 2010.
Methodology: Project BRAIN will:
a. Establish a partnership with three children’s hospitals, one in each of the three grand regions of the state
b. Develop the hospital-school transition
c. Hire and train three full-time Transition Liaisons
Our sincere thanks to you; our students and families, our educators, our healthcare professionals our service providers and our partners for your dedicated support and enthusiasm to improve the educational outcomes for students.
