Yesterday, we wrapped up our third webinar for our Traumatic Brain Injury Statewide Webinar Series “Improving Service Coordination for People with a TBI”. On October 21st the first Central California TBI webinar and yesterday, Monday October 25th we hosted a webinar for Southern California. In both webinars, Lynda Eaton, a physical Therapist at the Mercy General Hospital continued her presentation about Strategies for Working with the TBI Consumer.
Presenting for the central California webinars, was Jenny Oshiro from the TBI Site - Janet Pomeroy Center in San Francisco. Jenny provided information on the variety of available resources. She emphasized that they offer direct services for San Francisco County but for the outlying areas they act as a resource to allow others to provide accessible services for people with a TBI.
Also presenting for Central California was Tim McKay, who provided a consumer perspective on living with a TBI. Tim is a consumer of Central Coast Center for Independent Living (CCCIL) and is on the Civilian TBI Advisory Committee for this project. Tim and Jenny talked about the services and barriers that are specific to Central California. Tim emphasized the difficulties with insurance coverage and the missed opportunities from delays in treatment authorization. The first year of treatment post injury is when the most recovery takes place.
In our Southern California Webinar, we were honored to have five Traumatic Brain Injury Service For California (TBISCA) Sites on the call. In addition to CCCIL and Lynda from Mercy Hospital, also presenting a brief overview of their Southern California region TBISCA sites were Robert Almaraz from the Betty Clooney Foundation and Christina Hutchison from Options Family of Services.
The fifth site present and the main presenter was Claudia Ellano providing an overview of services available through St. Jude Medical Center. She discussed some of the difficulties more rural areas have with getting services. Presenting a consumer perspective from Southern California, James Marshall talked about the challenges of having changes in service providers within an agency. He emphasized the need for continuity of services because of the energy it takes to get a new case worker up to speed and the complexity of Traumatic Brain Injury.
Overall, we were much honored to have such a great group of presenters leading our first set of state wide trainings as well as the participation of all those who attended. You can access the webinar archive at our main website at catbi.org.
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