Certified Brain Injury Specialist Training
Registration is Open!
The Brain Injury Association of America’s Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists (ACBIS) is the nation’s premiere brain injury certification program. Acquiring a Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS) credential is the next step in ensuring you remain a valuable, marketable, and well-informed asset in the field of brain injury services.
Qualifications:
1. Applicants must have had 500 hours of currently verifiable direct contact experience with an individual or individuals with brain injury.
2. Experience can be paid employment and/or academic internship. Volunteer work or self-discovery does not qualify.
3. The qualifying experience must have included formal supervision or have been conducted while the applicant operated under a professional license. If the applicant is operating under a professional license, then the applicant must be in good standing.
4. Applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent.
When:
- Tuesday, March 1, 2022 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
- Tuesday, March 8, 2022 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
- Tuesday, March 15, 2022 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
- Tuesday, March 22, 2022 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM
- Tuesday, March 29, 2022 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM (Optional Review Day)
Where: Zoom
Target Audience: Professional staff who are interested in, and meet ACBIS criteria for, Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS) certification
Textbook: The Essential Brain Injury Guide, 5.0 Edition.
Fees:
- $100 which includes application, instruction, and exam. (This is a discount of $135.00).
- Participant is responsible for purchasing the Essential Brain Injury Guide textbook at a discounted rate of $90.00.
- Participants cannot attend the class without the textbook.
- Instructions will be provided upon receipt of the registration form.
- Upon passing the exam, a one-year subscription of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation will be provided at no cost which is a $148.00 value.
Instructors:
Kay Brooks, MA, CBIST
Director, Head and Spinal Cord Injury Services
Thrive Upstate
Past-President, Brain Injury Association of South Carolina
Meghan Trowbridge, LISW-AP, CBIST, C-ASWCM
Assistant Director, Center for Disability Resources, South Carolina University
Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
Research Assistant Professor
Marty Van Dam, M.S., CCC-SLP, CBIST
Supervisor of Therapies, Roger C. Peace Outpatient Brain Injury & Young Stroke Program
Prisma Health Upstate
President-Elect, Brain Injury Association of South Carolina
To Register:
https://www.biaofsc.com/trainings-and-certifications
Deadline to register is January 31, 2022.
Class is limited to 25 individuals.
If you have any questions, please contact Kristi Hartwell
or 803-731-9823
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