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A place for minds and bodies to heal: a new clubhouse helps people with brain injuries reintegrate into the community.

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Eric Powell was told he likely would never walk or talk again after a severe car wreck almost seven years ago. A semitruck jackknifed on I-95 and spilled its payload of several tons of lumber across the median and on top of Powell's car, crushinghim and causing a traumatic brain injury (TBI). His condition was thought to be so bad that a local TV news reporter announced he had died. Powell lived but underwent several years of intense rehabilitation, and he could no longer retain in his job as a project manager with BellSouth because of short-term memory loss.

"I forget too much stuff," Powell explains. "I'll never be the executive that I was before, but I'm not dead."

Powell's days of working on the computer aren't over though, thanks to a new program in Jacksonville, Florida, that gives people with brain injuries a pathway to community reintegration.

The Brooks Clubhouse is a full-time day program helping with the long-term recovery needs for those with TBI. The Clubhouse, which abides by the International Brain Injury Clubhouse Alliance's (IBICA) standards, is a recent expansion of the continuum of care provided...

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