When someone experiences a stroke, concussion, or traumatic brain injury, life changes in an instant. What comes after — recovery, emotional health, rebuilding skills, reconnecting with community — can be a long journey that requires specialized support. Yet in Marin County and the greater San Francisco Bay Area, there is only one nonprofit dedicated solely to helping people navigate life after brain injury: Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery.
As the holiday season approaches, we’re inviting caring community members like you to help protect this vital resource and ensure no survivor has to face recovery alone.
A Unique Community Resource Worth Protecting
For more than 40 years, Schurig Center has served as a lifeline for hundreds of people every year. We offer therapeutic classes, support groups, resource referral assistance, and programs that help survivors regain skills, independence, and hope. Families also receive brain injury education, support, and respite.
Unlike medical programs or other charitable organizations, our services are not covered by insurance and we do not receive federal funding. Instead, over 80% of the support needed to keep our doors open comes from caring donors and charitable foundations.
This means that your generosity directly sustains our mission.
Why Your Donation Matters This Holiday Season
Your gift makes a real and immediate difference. When you donate to Schurig Center, you help:
- Fill critical gaps in care for survivors who have nowhere else to turn.
- Ensure recovery programs remain affordable, especially for the 70% of our clients who are low-income.
- Support more than 600 individuals and family caregivers this year with continued rehabilitation, resource referral assistance, brain injury education, and support groups.
- Protect the only nonprofit brain injury recovery resource in Marin and the Bay Area.
Every dollar extends a hand of compassion to someone rebuilding their life.
Holiday Giving: A Powerful Way to Change Lives
During this time of year, many people look for meaningful ways to give back locally. By choosing Schurig Center, you’re not just giving a donation — you’re giving healing, stability, and new possibilities to survivors in your own community.
Imagine helping someone speak clearly again after a stroke. Supporting a parent recovering from a concussion so they can return to work. Giving a caregiver a rare moment of relief and connection.
This is what your holiday gift makes possible.
Join Us in Strengthening the Future of Brain Injury Recovery
As need for our programs continues, your support ensures this unique community resource remains strong – not just for today, but for the future.
If you believe every person deserves the chance to heal and rebuild their life, we invite you to make a holiday donation today.
Your generosity protects hope. Your compassion fuels healing.
Thank you for supporting brain injury survivors and families when they need it most.
Schurig Center is pleased to announce that Lawrence Strick has joined its Board of Directors.
Dear Friends, 
Schurig Center is a place where survivors and their families and caregivers can learn how to understand their new challenges, connect with people who know what they are experiencing and access ongoing services and education to help make life better. It fills a big gap in our healthcare system that otherwise would leave people on their own to research and find therapies for their recovery.
