is to provide a safe and supportive environment that
encourages brain injury survivors to design and direct their own life's
journey. If you or somebody you love is a survivor of a brain injury then the
Hickok Center for Brain Injury may be for you.
The Hickok Center for Brain
Injury, Inc. was incorporated in Rochester, New York in
1989 as the
Rochester Foundation for Persons with Brain Injury, Inc., with the goal
of starting a Center for people with brain injuries. By April of
1996, the Ray Hickok Center, a program of the Rochester Foundation for
Persons with Brain Injury, began to admit members to the French Road
location. In 2001, the Center moved to a small space in Village Gate
Square. The name was officially changed to the Hickok Center for Brain
Injury, Inc. in 2002. As the number of members increased, the center
again moved to a larger space at Village Gate in 2003. Again in 2005,
the center expanded, leasing additional space at Village Gate.
In February of 2006, the
Hickok Center for Brain Injury was approved by the Department of Health
to provide Independent Living Skills Training (ILST). ILST is one-to-one
skill training provided to people with brain injuries funded by the
Department of Health Traumatic Brain Injury Waiver. Currently, The
Hickok Center provides ILST services in Prevocational Development,
Academic Support and Personal Fitness Training. The Independent Living
Skills Training is available in both the Rochester and Newark locations.
In March of 2006, the Hickok
Center opened a satellite program in Wayne County, located in Newark.
Many people in that area were in need of services that were specifically
designed for people who had brain injuries.
Over the past several years,
the members of the Hickok Center had a dream to own their own
Center.
In April of 2006, that goal became a reality. The center purchased a
building on 114 South Union Street in Rochester, NY. We finally have a
place of our own.
Through the dedication of
members, staff, volunteers, the Board of Directors and all of our
supporters, the Hickok Center for Brain Injury will continue to provide
a place where people with brain injuries are encouraged to meet their
life goals in a safe, supportive and respectful way.
I
am tremendously proud and privileged to serve as the Hickok Center for
Brain Injury’s CEO. The Hickok Center has evolved from a small agency
serving a handful of adult survivors of brain injury to a thriving
agency that embraces a strong foundation of commitment, integrity and
excellence; an agency moving forward into a new era of growth and
opportunity in the communities it serves.
