As the state agency for disabilities including brain injury, the Virginia Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) is required to provide an annual report per Item 330 of the 2023 Appropriations Act documenting “the number of individuals served, services provided, and success in attracting non-state resources."

In state fiscal year (SFY) 2023 nine state-funded community-based organizations provided support to 2,474 individuals living with brain injury. This is a nine percent (9%) increase over the previous fiscal year. The number of new referrals increased by 14% (63 individuals). Sixty-six (66) people were waiting for Case Management at the end of SFY23 and eighteen (18) were on a waiting list for ClubHouse or Day Support programs.

At the end of SFY 2022, nineteen percent (19%) of Virginia counties and cities did not have any brain injury services at all. In 2023 funding to expand brain injury case management to unserved areas of the Commonwealth resulted in an expansion to eleven (11) additional counties.

The Brain Injury Services Annual report includes additional detail on services provided, activities of the Virginia Brain Injury Council, and the focus of the most recent federal traumatic brain injury grant. Advances are being made in screening for brain injury across service providers including community service boards, domestic violence programs, and housing/homelessness agencies. Efforts are being made to improve the use and reliability of data to direct brain injury resources. Using the resources of Virginia’s No Wrong Door program, more people with brain injury and their families can access online screening for brain injury and connect directly to local services.