IACP & Brain Injury

IACP & Brain Injury

Background: The Iowa Association of Community Providers (IACP) has partnered with the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) since 2005 to increase the number of brain injury service providers in Iowa & to increase their capacity to serve individuals who have experienced brain injury. IACP develops & provides high quality training opportunities for service providers throughout the state & offers providers access to cutting edge information in the field of brain injury rehabilitation. In 2009, the program was able to hire a full time program director, which is responsible for coordinating these activities, providing in-house training to providers & consulting with them on challenging individual cases & to help develop their internal capacity to serve people experiencing brain injury.

Current program activities include:

Regional trainings
Scholarships to the Brain Injury Association of Iowa’s annual conference in March
Scholarships to the North American Brain Injury Societies annual conference
Facilitation of the IACP Brain Injury Advisory group
A brain injury externship program designed to give professionals an opportunity to develop further skills & knowledge in regards to brain injury rehabilitation
Development of an online curriculum for use by HCBS brain injury providers
Provision of training to individual agencies who are either interested in or already serving someone experiencing brain injury
Develop of individual agency curriculum for staff training
Provision of consultation services to help agency staff deal more effectively with challenging situations.

Brain Injury Resources