Nebraska will receive $250,000 each year for the next four years for traumatic brain injury services.

Nebraska was one of 16 states awarded a new federal Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Implementation Partnership Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration.

Traumatic brain injury services during the first year will focus on awareness, screening, training for service professionals and building system capacity to serve those who are most at risk for brain injury. Those individuals are children ages birth to four years, veterans returning from Iraq, youth in the juvenile justice system and the elderly.

Nebraska’s TBI Advisory Council and Keri Bennett, the state Vocational Rehabilitation program director for acquired brain injury, will work together to identify individuals who need services and to develop those services.

"This grant will help make it possible for Nebraskans who have experienced a brain injury to be identified and to access appropriate services within existing systems," Bennett said.

For more information contact Keri Bennett at 308.865.5012.

Individuals who have questions about available services may contact the Hotline for Disability Services, 800.742.7594.