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Services for TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) Families 

ATC possesses a unique understanding of the needs and strengths of the population of those with disabilities.  We have extensive expertise in advancing the development and growth of small and disadvantaged businesses and many more important areas of service. Our services to the disabled also include renewable energy career training (please read below), lifeskills training, and general career training.  Our consultants implement our services in a sensitive manner through actively connecting with your clients. 

Barbara J. Butler has lived the life of a traumatic

brain injury (TBI) survivor for 18 years. 

Her workbook, Thinking Out of the Box –

Strategies for Handling Change,

was created in the middle years of

recovery with the hope to serve others –

as a guide – from first-hand experience. 

She has facilitatedTBI Support Groups,

volunteering through state BIAs

(Brain Injury Associations) and Breckenridge

Outdoor Education Center (BOEC).

Now, with so many of  young people returning from Iraq and other war zones, with brain injuries, their families need help.

Recent articles include stories about young military returning home as war veterans and portray the horror stories families face in helping their loved ones. Whether it is in attempting to receive the necessary and needed services for their sons or daughters or just in daily functioning, there is a passionate cry for help.

ATC would like to contact military personnel from our armed service branches and Veterans Hospitals nationwide to collaborate in creating a “type” of universal Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) resource information service.   Information will be dispersed via books, pamphlets, call centers, webinars, and seminars.  Please contact agnes@atc-associates.com if you would like to contribute the names of those who would benefit from this information.

The Self-Employment training, consulting and technical assistance will result in the following key outcomes for the participants of the Self-Employment Program:

• Written and viable business plans with cash flow projections
  

• Businesses started and maintained/supported
  

• Cash flows designed to appropriately reflect the labor costs, excluding owner’s pay expensing issues according to the department’s guidelines
  

• Assistance to the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors by the appropriate client training and guidance in other business expense exclusions
  

• Self-Employment Consumer Guidelines implemented to assure compliance
  

• Communication with the Benefits Specialist to monitor impact of income on benefits
  

• Appropriately customized and personal training will result in more successfully self-employed and self-sufficient customers of the Colorado Division of Vocational Rehabilitation.
  

Online Convenience:

We now can train, counsel, and provide technical assistance online. Any of our services can be performed from our offices directly into the homes of DVR clients – this is particularly helpful in serving those who are home-bound or live at a great distance from our offices.

Contact Agnes Talamantez Carroll for a free demonstration or to make arrangements for services at agnes@atc-associates.com or at 303.632.8245.

                             Vendor Number:  UR30208

                             Authorization Codes:

                             21500 Communications Skills

                             23800 Vocational Skills Training

                             60700 Self-Employment Services & Consultation

  Think GREEN jobs!

  Training will begin in January 2009 for positions in manufacturing solar panels.  With this training three Colorado companies will be hiring            

  500 people as technicians and technician assistants.  These are entry-level jobs that pay $10 to $20 per hour and enable a person to get their       

  foot in the door in the exciting new industry of Renewable Energy. 

  Requirements are: 

Must be able to lift 50lbs

Must have good vision

Must have 8th grade math (test in Spanish or English)

Must have 8th grade reading skills (test in Spanish or English)

   Adams County (Colorado) will be providing remedial training and supportive services.  Contact them today to be ready for the ATC technical   

  computer based training videos that begin in January 2009.  This training will be offered in English and in Spanish.  Certifications will be      

  awarded at the end of the ATC training and testing. 

It' s good to be green!