Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, has announced anonymous gifts totaling nearly $3.2 million in support of its neurobehavioral program.

Created in 2020, the program provides patients and families hands-on, evidence-based behavior-management plans to reduce challenging behaviors and increase adaptive behaviors following a brain injury. The funding will increase the number of trained behavior specialists and expand services into the outpatient setting. The gift also will fund additional training that enables all individuals involved in a patient’s care to learn the principles and interventions of applied behavior analysis. The neurobehavioral team plans to collect data, conduct research, and publish and present its findings to enhance knowledge and understanding in other brain injury settings.

“Can you imagine bringing home someone you love who, due to an accident, has become aggressive or even violent, and there is no plan for how you are to manage this?” said one of the donors. “It seems that this is a perfect opportunity for philanthropy to step in to help by providing some amazing people at Craig Hospital the ability to address this previously overlooked, but critical, aspect of neurorehabilitation.”

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