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> Dear friends and colleagues:
>
> Please take a moment and respond to this. The National
> Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems (NAPAS) is the
> parent organization for PA Protection and Advocacy. They are
> interested in getting information about TBI and legal concerns.
> Feel free to distribute this message further if you know others
> for whom this is pertinent.
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
> Please help NAPAS identify the legal concerns of individuals with
> TBI.
>
> The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently
> funded The National Association of Protection and Advocacy
> Systems (NAPAS) to provide technical assistance and training to
> support the Protection and Advocacy TBI programs. NAPAS developed
> the discussion guide attached as a tool for identifying the legal
> concerns of individuals with TBI.
>
> NAPAS would appreciate your assistance distributing this guide to
> individuals with TBI, their family members, and advocates.
>
> Please ask individuals with TBI who serve on P&A boards, or
> advisory councils to complete the guide, and send the discussion
> guide widely to other TBI stakeholders in your state. P&A
> representatives are, also,
> encouraged to complete the guide based on their own understanding
> of the legal concerns of individuals with TBI. Lastly, if your
> P&A TBI program completed its own assessment of the legal and
> advocacy needs of
> individuals with TBI, NAPAS would welcome the chance to see the
> results.
>
> NAPAS needs completed discussion guides by December 10th.
> Individuals can provide the information by e-mailing the
> completed form to elizabeth@napas.org
or faxing it to Elizabeth
> at 202-408-9520. Anyone
> who would prefer to discuss the legal concerns of individuals
> with TBI by phone can call me at 202-408-9514.
>
> Your assistance gathering this information is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> NAPAS will use the information collected with careful
> consideration to privacy, and will strive to use the information
> to support individuals with disabilities, and the P&A System.
>
> Thank you, Elizabeth
> Elizabeth Priaulx
> Senior Staff Attorney
> National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems
> 900 Second Street, NE. Suite 211
> Washington, DC 20002
> (t) 202-408-9514
> (f) 202-408-9520
> (e) elizabeth@napas.org
>
> NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROTECTION & ADVOCACY SYSTEMS (NAPAS)
> Discussion Guide to Legal Problems of Individuals with Traumatic
> Brain Injury (TBI)
> Your state has a program to help people with TBI get education,
> housing, health care, jobs, and more. If you or someone you know
> has TBI, we would like to know how this program can help you.
> Below is a list of problems people with TBI sometimes have. If
> you answer "yes" to any of these problems, please check next to
> that problem.
> You or your family member has a TBI
> You need extra supports to do well in school, like tutoring
> or a computer but the school has not given them to you.
> You have difficulty finding or keeping a job because of a
> TBI.
> You need help paying for health care
> You need help getting social security because of a TBI.
> You need help, because of a TBI, to live more independently
> in the community,
> You need help to move out of a nursing home and into the
> community.
> You are having difficulty finding housing or have been
> evicted from housing because you have TBI.
> You think you could use a computer to help you at work or
> school, because of a TBI, but you can't afford it or don't know
> what computer you need.
> You are in prison, or jail and you are not getting medical or
> other services you need.
> You have been told you can not vote because of a TBI.
> You have been told to leave a public place, such as a
> restaurant, theater, or store, because of how you act as a result
> of a TBI.
> You have been abused or harmed by others as a result of
> having a TBI
>
> Please tell us any other problems you are having because of a
> TBI.
>
> Thank you. Please send this guide back to the National
> Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems. The address is:
> 900 Second Street NE, Suite 211, Washington, DC 20002. You can
> also fax it to 202-408-9520, or e-mail it to
Elizabeth@napas.org.
> If you have any questions please call Elizabeth Priaulx at
> 202-408-9514.
>
> This Discussion Guide is produced on behalf of the U.S.
> Department of Health and Human Services, Human Resources and
> Services Administration.
>
> National Association of Protection & Advocacy Systems, Inc.
> 900 Second Street, NE, Suite 211
> Washington, DC 20002-3560
> (202) 408-9514 FAX: (202) 408-9520 TTY: (202) 408-9521
> Website: http://www.napas.org
> E-Mail: info@napas.org
>
>
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