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November 5, 2018 by Angela

Give the Gift of Recovery This Holiday

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about Rich’s journey to recovery made possible by caring people like you!

“While helping my friend Rich, I learned first-hand that navigating the recovery process after a stroke is a maze.

Schurig Center is an oasis. Without the center, Rich would be warehoused in a medical facility, declining in health and isolated from the community.

A gift to Schurig Center is one of the most compassionate donations you can make.

Please join me in ensuring this community resource continues to be available for our neighbors who are in crisis and who have nowhere else to turn for help. Donate today! Thank you for supporting your community and changing lives.
– John, grateful friend and caregiver

Only YOU can help Bay Area concussion and stroke survivors thrive!

Do you believe that we rise by lifting others?

At Schurig Center, we believe this to be true and we imagine you do, too. By changing one life, you affect change in our entire community. As a Schurig Center supporter, you lift people to a greater quality of life and they reach fulfillment as a valued member of our community.

The simple things we so often take for granted – independence, connection, feeling of value, being heard – are the very things hundreds of people this year would be forced to live without if not for Schurig Center and the caring of people like you. When you donate to Schurig Center you help people not only get their skills back… but also get their life back.

Survivors and families need our services, and we need YOU!

We rely on community support to keep our doors open. In fact, we fundraise over 80% of our annual budget. Here’s why your giving matters…

  • 70% of our clients live on a low income.
  • We do not receive state/federal funds or health insurance fees.
  • We are the only non-profit in our area that helps make recovery after a brain injury, concussion or stroke more holistic and hopeful.

Gifts of all sizes change lives!

$50….. Five support groups to process emotions with others who understand
$75….. Three CogSmart classes to help perform everyday activities better
$120….. Two weeks of computer therapy to improve memory, logic, and concentration
$250….. Ten weeks of speech therapy class to help communicate more effectively
$500….. Ten weeks of individual occupational therapy sessions to improve daily living skills
$1,000….. Six months of on-site concussion education program
$2,500….. One year of monthly support and education group for family members
$5,000….. One year of expressive art therapy classes for survivors
$10,000….. Six months of resource referral assistance for the community-at-large

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Together we are improving lives and inspiring renewed hope. Thank you!

Filed Under: Blog, Ways You Can Help Tagged With: brain injury, charity, concussion, donate, fundraising, holiday giving, Marin, San Francisco Bay Area, Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery, Sonoma, stroke, tumor

October 29, 2018 by Angela

Your gift to Schurig Center helps address a “public health crisis”

Every day there seems to be a new feature story about concussion in the media. This is important news because concussions, a type of traumatic brain injury, happen frequently and can have lasting effects. Despite often being associated with professional and youth sports, a concussion can happen to anyone at any age from a blow or jolt to the head. Causes include falls, motor vehicle and recreation accidents, whiplash, and even seemingly minor bumps to the head, like bumping into a cabinet door.

Concussion has become an important area of research to improve understanding of its short and long-term side effects and to establish effective treatment protocols.

In a recent San Francisco Chronicle article, renowned neurosurgeon and UCSF Professor, Dr. Geoffrey Manley, shared his study findings that too many concussion patients do not receive follow-up care even when they experience ongoing post-concussive symptoms.

Many health care professionals believe concussion patients don’t need or cannot benefit from subsequent visits and treatment. Dr. Manley’s study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open, found the opposite to be true. “This is a public health crisis that is being overlooked,” Manley said in an interview.

In fact, half of concussion patients are discharged without being warned about possible follow-up symptoms, red flags and dangers. Only 40% of the patients in Manley’s study saw a doctor or other medical provider within three months of being injured.

Dr. Manley drew parallels between traumatic brain injuries and other diseases, noting that it is important to think of a head injury as an ongoing condition rather than an isolated event.

“If you have a heart attack, you get great care,” he said. “A doctor will follow up with you. With traumatic head injuries, we have a whole bunch of people out there that when we looked at those that aren’t being seen, they needed to be seen. We have got to do a better job.”

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You help people not only survive, but thrive!

As a Schurig Center supporter, you play a critical role in filling the gaps in follow-up care for people living with the effects of a concussion. You provide therapeutic and support services designed to help people improve their abilities and transition from the hospital to community living.

Your generosity helps hundreds of people each year achieve their best quality of life by providing:

A restorative community
That provides a vitally important bridge between medical intervention and survivor independence.

Customized recovery plans that offer survivors in crisis a ray of hope.
When doctors don’t have time to recommend therapists and insurance won’t pay for transitional services, you give them a place to turn.

Brain injury expertise and education
That is helping to change the future of brain injury recovery.

It’s not enough to save a life.
Everyone deserves to have a life.

Thanks to you, survivors and their families have a place to turn to get the support they need to build meaningful lives after a brain injury, from an accident, concussion or stroke. THANK YOU!

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Filed Under: Blog, Concussion, Rebuilding Life Skills, Thank You Community Supporters, Ways You Can Help Tagged With: concussion, donate, Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery, stroke, support

May 3, 2018 by Angela

A Beautiful Garden is a Work of Heart


May 3 is National Garden Meditation Day. There’s a reason that so many people enjoy gardening. What’s more relaxing than a day spent outdoors on a beautiful day? Sunshine and a breeze. Birds chirping. Hummingbirds enjoying a sip of nectar. The smell of flowers in the air.

It’s no wonder May has been designated “Gifts From the Garden” month.

Did you know?
Schurig Center is surrounded by a beautiful therapeutic garden.

A garden is the perfect place to find refuge from our day-to-day stresses and to reconnect with nature. But, it also has many benefits for those living with the effects of a brain injury.

The garden at Schurig Center provides a peaceful setting for Therapeutic Program participants to engage in Horticultural Therapy – an effective tool that improves one’s quality of life after a brain injury by offering cognitive, social, psychological, and physical benefits. Through hands-on garden activities, participants improve memory, cognitive abilities, and task initiation skills while also strengthening muscles and improving coordination, balance, and endurance. The garden also provides a sensory experience with an array of colors, textures, and fragrances to explore.

Gardening is a direct connection with our natural environment and life cycle that can bring about surprising results, both in improving motor skills and in reducing stress. By caring for plants, individuals also experience first-hand their impact on improving the ecosystem.

So, take some time today to restore your soul and refresh your body in nature. Tend to some plants and flowers…Stroll down a garden path…Rest quietly on a garden bench. Or, stop by Schurig Center and enjoy our garden.

Happy #GardenMeditationDay!

Learn more about the benefits of Horticultural Therapy at the American Horticultural Therapy Association website.

Join Our Host of Garden Angels, Donate by May 31!

Your gift before May 31 sows the seeds that help survivors thrive after a brain injury!

We need your help to raise $5,000 in May. Only YOU can help provide this life-changing healing in nature. Without your support, Schurig Center would not be able to offer rehabilitative services, like therapeutic gardening. These programs are designed specifically for brain injury survivors and are not available anywhere else in our area.

Gifts of $250 or more in the month of May will be honored with a personalized brick in the center’s garden!

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Thank You!

Schurig Center’s garden has been lovingly created, designed and maintained by Marin Master Gardeners Patricia Compton and Karen Halverson and volunteers throughout the year. Through their constant nurturing and generous donations of plants, soil, and irrigation equipment, the garden has become an oasis of beauty.

We are also deeply grateful to Gwen and Martin Gans for their generous support of the garden in honor of this dedication: “Gardening, a blessing which rewards us with joyous moments unique among healing endeavors.”

Filed Under: A Day at the Center, Therapeutic Garden, Ways You Can Help Tagged With: brain injury recovery, charity, concussion, donate, horticultural therapy, Marin, nonprofit, San Francisco Bay Area, Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery, Sonoma, stroke, therapeutic garden, volunteer

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