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We are pleased to share that in August 2016, BINBA changed its name to “Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery.” This was a thoughtful decision reached by our team during the past year as we celebrated our center’s 30th anniversary, honored our history, and made strategic decisions about the center’s future. [Read more…]
Our Therapeutic Program participants recently got to experience the joy of harvesting potatoes they planted months ago. They unearthed quite a haul!
The garden that surrounds BINBA provides horticultural therapy for our participants. Horticultural therapy incorporates plants and plant-related activities to help improve the body, mind and spirit of the individual, and is an accepted and effective tool that offers cognitive, social, psychological and physical benefits as well as improving one’s quality of life.
Gardening can bring about surprising results, both in improving motor skills and in reducing stress. BINBA participants are provided a hands-on connection with the natural environment and life cycle. By caring for plants, individuals realize that they can have an impact on improving the ecosystem.
Once a month, BINBA clients don their chef hats and embark into a world filled with measuring, stirring, baking, cooking and tasting.
In Life Skills Cooking Class, clients come together to learn and grow through the art of preparing delicious food.
Today, clients made (and ate) chicken pot pie.
Meanwhile, in art therapy class, the directive for the group was to create an image art of a familiar place that also represents safety.
Ted created this image and wrote:
“BINBA is a quiet warm place that evokes brilliance – Safe and Familiar.”
