WHO WE WANT TO HELP

CCHMC’s Outpatient Neurorehabilitation Team  

(ONRT) provides comprehensive, outpatient rehabilitation services to children and adolescents who have suffered an acquired or traumatic brain injury. The ONRT members include Speech-Language Pathologist, OT’s, PT’s and team members from Behavioral and Clinical Psychology. How they will use money from FABI.

1. Develop a CCHMC ONRT Family Education/Resource Center

v Purchase and develop educational materials for our patients and families regarding pediatric acquired brain injury.

v Maintain a lending library of the materials accessible to patients and families.

2. Develop, print, and distribute “Welcome to CCHMC’s ONRT” folders/packets

v Packets/folders will contain information for family’s regarding the ONRT program, i.e. Meet the Team, Helpful Insurance Tips, Scheduling, Communication with Schools, etc.

v Each family referred to ONRT will receive one.

3. Purchase of treatment materials for brain injury rehabilitation

4. Ongoing staff training to increase therapists’ expertise in the area of provision of rehabilitation services for pediatric patients who have sustained a brain injury

v Subscriptions to journals, purchase of textbooks and treatment manuals

5. Development of a website for ONRT

v Website will include description of program and all necessary information for referral sources, patients, and families as well as educational information and links to other sites pertinent to pediatric brain injury

v Patient stories and contact information for families to connect to each other post injury/illness

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