HI BETHANY; OUT OF 7 YEARS EXPERIENCE JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME, RUN DO NOT WALK WHEN YOU EVEN CONSIDER THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF SPOKANE OR WA STATE. YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT THAT SUPPORT GROUP IS VERY TRUE. THE SAD THING IS WE FINALLY GOT A GOOD FACILITATOR, BUT THE BOARD COULD NOT HANDLE THE FACT THE FACILITATOR AND CO FACILITATOR BOTH HAD BRAIN INJURIES. HOW COULD THEY EVEN RELATE, HOW WOULD THEY BEABLE TO BRING IN EDUCATION AND NEW PEOPLE, AND GROW IN FELLOW SUPPORT GROUP MEMBERS, BUT THE TWO OF THEM DID, AND THE MORE THEY DID AND THE MORE THEY GREW AS A GROUP OF tbi'S WORKING TOGETHER, EDUCATING, AND SOCIALIZING, THE MORE CONTROLING THE BOARD BECAME, EVEN WHEN IT CAME TO GRANT MONIES GIVEN TO THE SUPPORT GROUPS ALL THREE THAT THEY HAD, SO THE BOARD MOVED IN AND BASHED PEOPLES GOOD NAME, AND REPLACED THEM WITH PAID FROM SUPPORT GROUP MONEY GRANTS TO HEAD UP THE SUPPORT GROUPS, USING TBI'S AS PAWNS FOR THE SHOW. TBI'S CAN DO ALOT, WE HAVE TERRIFIC ABILITIES, AND ARE VERY DIVERSE, AND NOT ASHAMED. CRAIG SICILIA STARTED ANOTHER TYPE OF SUPPORT GROUP AS HE WAS MOVING AWAY FROM THE BRAIN INJURY ASSOC. OF SPOKANE, IT IS A GOOD GROUP WITH TBI'S AND IT'S RUN BY TBI'S, THE ONLY PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE THAT ATTEND ARE INVITED BY THE TBI'S.
CRAIG USE TO WORK WITH MY MOM, BEFORE SHE BECAME VERY ILL, HER DREAM WAS TO START UP ANOTHER SUPPORT GROUP IN NORTH SPOKANE WITH THE BOOK CRAIG GOT FROM HIS STUDIES WITH ANOTHER GUY VERY INTERESTED IN TBI'S HELPING EACH OTHER. CONTACT CRAIG, AND HELP HIM REMEMBER THE GOAL HE AND MY MOM HAD, AND MAYBE YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE COULD STEP IN AND HELP MY MOM'S DREAM FOR THOSE LEFT BEHIND AT ST LUKES BRAIN INJURY ASSOC. SUPPORT GROUP, AND SHOW THEM THERE IS A BETTER WAY, AND A WAY TBI'S CAN FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEM SELVES, BY HELPING AND BEING ACTIVE IN SETTING UP THEIR OWN SUPPORT GROUP IN THE NORTH SPOKANE AREA, CRAIG KNOWS WHERE, AND THE PLACE HE KNOWS, IS STILL OPEN TO THE PLAN HE AND MY MOM HAD.
MY BEST TO YOU AND ALL OF US WITH TBI'S, I GOT MINE IN MY HIGH SCHOOL YEAR, IT WAS LABLED MILD TBI, BUT A TBI IS A TBI, AND WE CAN STILL BE PRODUCTIVE, AS MY MOM TAUGHT ALL 4 OF HER OWN KIDS AND THE 12 THAT HAVE PASSED THROUGH OUR HOME THAT SHE HELPED NO QUESTIONS ASKED. EVERYBODY HAS A DISABILITY SHE'D SAY THEY JUST DON'T KNOW IT.
ANIE~