Dr. Lisa Thompson Center for Family Education
Learning to Cope with Long-Term Challenges
Brain injury often has devastating, lifelong effects for the patient, their family, friends, and colleagues. Rehabilitation services must address these chronic challenges that can lead to loss of purpose, meaning, community, 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 lifelong, chronic effects of traumatic brain injury—long after traditional rehabilitation ends. This restricted fund within the RHI Foundation is dedicated solely to providing 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 for families living with TBI, discover new interventions to address them, assess the long-term effectiveness of treatments, and help with new challenges that may arise.
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. Sam Backhaus and Dr. Summer Ibarra, its effectiveness has been demonstrated through several publications and by winning the 2009 McDowell Award for best presentation, presented by the American Society for Neurorehabilitation and the American Congress of Rehabilitation.