Survivor & System Solutions helps agencies identify where people affected by brain injury may be misunderstood, overwhelmed, excluded, delayed, or lost between systems — then provides practical training, accessibility guidance, structured response tools, survivor engagement, and implementation support to strengthen the response.
S&SS services can be purchased individually or completed as a coordinated agency-improvement process. The pathway is designed to support existing operations, not replace agency policy, command structure, clinical judgment, legal review, or internal approval.
Agency Service Statement: Survivor & System Solutions helps agencies identify where people affected by brain injury may be misunderstood, overwhelmed, excluded, or lost between systems — and provides practical training, accessibility guidance, structured tools, and implementation support to strengthen the response.
These five services give agencies a clear model for brain injury-informed improvement: assessment, training, accessibility, implementation, and lived-experience engagement.
A structured review that helps leadership see where survivors may be misunderstood, overwhelmed, delayed, excluded, or lost within existing procedures.
Practical training that helps personnel recognize how brain injury may affect communication, memory, processing, behavior, emotional regulation, sensory tolerance, and decision-making.
A survivor-informed review of agency materials and communication processes to determine whether they are understandable and usable for people with cognitive or sensory limitations.
Guidance that helps an agency review, adapt, and introduce an S&SS response system within its existing operations through a manageable phased process.
A structured process that helps agencies meaningfully include survivors and caregivers in program development, service improvement, training, policy discussions, and community planning.
S&SS systems are built as practical overlay templates. They help professionals recognize when brain injury may be involved and provide clearer pathways for communication, support, handoff, follow-up, and coordination without adding unnecessary confusion or disconnected work.
A county-level system designed for public safety, EMS, emergency care, advocacy support, supervisors, and leadership to use agency-specific pathways when brain injury may affect response, communication, safety, or follow-up.
A response system for EMS, emergency departments, hospital teams, and leadership to strengthen recognition, sensory safety, warm handoffs, discharge communication, and continuity after emergency care.
A workplace system for supervisors, HR, safety teams, employees, coworkers, and leadership to improve communication, accommodation pathways, overload response, and safe participation at work.
Important: S&SS systems do not replace current agency policy, command direction, medical protocols, legal review, personnel decisions, technology approval, or final local adoption. They support agencies by making brain injury response clearer, more compassionate, and easier to follow.
S&SS also supports the use of TBI Dashboard and the Impact Injury Severity Score as a data-informed visibility layer for brain injury response. These tools can help agencies better understand impact, severity, patterns, service needs, follow-up priorities, and where gaps may continue after the initial response.
Helps organize visibility around brain injury-related needs, response patterns, service connection, and follow-up priorities so leadership can better understand what is happening across systems.
Supports a clearer understanding of injury impact and severity so agencies and partners can discuss needs, risk, and support planning with more consistency.
S&SS connects survivor-centered response with data-informed planning so agencies can strengthen both frontline interaction and leadership decision-making.
Brain Summit 2026 represents a collaboration between survivor-led Survivor & System Solutions and caregiver-led Power Of Patients, bringing together lived experience, caregiver insight, healthcare innovation, survivorship advocacy, data, and compassionate systems collaboration.
Following Brain Summit 2026, Governor Josh Stein issued a formal letter welcoming summit attendees, thanking Jordan Slade for organizing the event, and recognizing the innovative work of Survivor & System Solutions.
“Survivor & System Solutions develops systems-level improvements that help close the gap between complex health care frameworks and the lived experiences of recovery.”
This recognition reflects the urgency of the work: connecting healthcare innovation, survivor advocacy, interagency collaboration, actionable data, and systemic support so survivors and families are not left to navigate disconnected systems alone.
— Letter from Governor Josh Stein, State of North Carolina
Brain Summit 2026 brought survivors, caregivers, researchers, healthcare professionals, advocates, innovators, and community leaders together in Charlotte to move beyond awareness and toward action. This album preserves the people, ideas, partnerships, and defining moments that made the summit possible.
Survivor & System Solutions works with agencies, counties, healthcare partners, public safety, workplace leaders, advocacy organizations, and community partners seeking clearer brain injury-informed response, communication, implementation, and survivor-centered support.
