Social Rehabilitation Programs

Employment Advocacy: Designed to assist people who face discrimination because of their epilepsy. This includes people who are seeking employment and also people who are employed but are facing discrimination on the job or who have not disclosed their epilepsy to an employer and are now facing mandatory drug testing during which the anticonvulsants will show up, and thus their epilepsy will become known to the employer.

ADA: Legal issues - supportive of employed individuals with epilepsy.

Parenting Skills: Teaches parents of children with epilepsy important skills necessary to reduce over-protection and other skills needed to raise happy, healthy children.

Telephone Companion: This program allows many people to remain independent by reminding them to take their medication at the appropriate time and to check in on and encourage people who live alone.

Transitional Adjustment: Designed to teach coping skills and give options to people who develop epilepsy late in life and whose lives dramatically change because of their epilepsy, i.e., loss of driver's license, employment, home, etc...