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Dr. Lisa Thompson Center for Family Education

Learning to Cope with Long-Term Challenges

Brain injury often has devastating, life-long effects for the patient, their family, friends, and colleagues. Rehabilitation services must address these chronic challenges that can lead to loss of purpose, meaning, connectedness, and even life itself. The RHI Foundation invests in this fund to help patients and families live with the long-term challenges of this chronic condition.

The Dr. Lisa Thompson Fund is dedicated to finding and addressing the long-term needs of patients and their families living with the life-long, chronic effects of traumatic brain injury—long after traditional rehabilitation ends. This is a restricted fund within the RHI Foundation, dedicated solely to provide funding for research, therapy, and ongoing education to families of traumatic brain injury patients. The RHI Foundation is proud to help RHI identify gaps and needs of families living with TBI, discover new interventions to address those needs, assess the long-term effectiveness of treatments, and offer help with new challenges that may arise.

 

  • Learn about the history of the Dr. Lisa Thompson Center for Family Education and the opportunities it provides for traumatic brain injury survivors and their loved ones.
  • See how the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana helped save Andrea Vellinga's life.
  • See how the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana saved Becky & Josh's Halon's marriage.
  • Watch how the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana helped Erick & Vicky Arthur and their 2 young sons.
  • Brain injury often has devastating, life-long effects for the patient, their family, friends, colleagues, and all those in relationships prior to the injury. The Dr. Lisa Thompson Center for Family Education helps patients and families live with the long-term challenges of this chronic condition.

Annual Golf Outing

The RHI Foundation hosts a golf outing every year to raise funds for the Dr. Lisa Thompson Fund. An Advisory Group stewards use of the funds raised to support initiatives like BICS and Couples CARE programs, Art Therapy, Love Your Brain Yoga, the infrastructure to maintain long-term, quality follow-up of research participants, and providing ACBIS certification to more than 40 RHI staff across therapy and nursing. Learn More >

Brain Injury Coping Skills Group (BICS)

Funded in partnership through Indiana Neuropsychology Group and the Dr. Lisa Thompson Fund, BICS is a specialized group therapy for survivors of acquired brain injury and their caregiver/family. Created by neuropsychologists Dr.’s Sam Backhaus and Summer Ibarra, its effectiveness has been demonstrated through several publications and winning the 2009 McDowell Award for best presentation presented by the American Society for Neurorehabilitation and American congress of Rehabilitation.

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  • Becky & Josh Halon Family, participants in RHI's Couples CARE program.
Becky & Josh Halon Family, participants in RHI's Couples CARE program.

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