B.R.A.I.N. is an acronym for Brain Rehabilitation And Injury Network.  It exists to give resource to families who have brain injury as their constant companion.

In 2006, our family discovered the reality of our own daughter’s brain injury and we realize that injury continues to impact us to this very day.  After being told that Kristin was schizophrenic and needed long term mental health care, we began a journey to find how who and what would be helpful to our daughter.  We were shocked to find the resources to be scarce and the living facilities available to our daughter were way less than adequate.

Our experience within the county mental health system often made us wonder who was the patient.  We went through conservatorships, dual diagnosis facilities, psychologists, psychiatrists, truck loads of paper work and were given no real answers to our need for true caring help for Kristin.  We desperately knocked on doors, called phone numbers, emailed organizations for help. We learned that there are a lot of people with salaries and names on doors in the mental health field whose sole purpose is to tell families that there is no real help available to them.

In the middle of our muddle of trying to find assistance, we were encouraged to get a brain scan to be able to accurately diagnose our daughter’s disability.  The scan showed brain trauma to Kristin’s frontal lobes which made all kinds of sense to us as we went back on her 31 years of life.  I was given an overdose of pitosin and had a rushed forceps delivery. The brain injury diagnosis made no difference in getting adequate care and housing for Kristin.  She has been in at least 12 different housing facilities since her disability was diagnosed in 2001.

Knowing the urgency of having adequate care for our daughter in the future gave us the motivation to begin B.R.A.I.N.  a foundation where families can gain insight, information as well as investment return as they donate to the brain injury cause.  We want to create a home atmosphere facility for those who have sustained a brain injury for adults 18 years of age and older.  We believe that those with brain injuries deserve a lifestyle that is full of purpose, grace and beauty.  We believe that there is much to learn and much to be grateful for as a family moves forward with a loved one with a brain injury.  B.R.A.I.N. exists to give those with brain injuries hope for the future.

Who We Are

Board of Directors:
Susan Rueb –   President/Co-founder of B.R.A.I.N., Business
Consultant, Workwithme Communications,
Huntington Beach, Ca.

Todd Clements M.D. – Medical Director/Psychiatrist of B.R.A.I.N.,
Founder/President of Clements Clinics,
Plano, Texas

Leonard W. Stitz Esq.-Secretary
COO, General Counsel, NextAce Corporation, Orange, California.

Joan Jensen – Treasurer
Retired Business owner,
P.C.S. Payroll Company, Huntington Beach, Ca.

Art Laos D.D.S. – Owner, Laos Dental Office,
Los Alamitos, Ca.

Jerry Rueb D.Min. – Co-Founder of B.R.A.I.N., Lead Pastor,
Cornerstone Church, Long Beach, Ca.

Robin Yaros – Sales Associate, Neiman Markus, Mother of
brain injured son  Seal Beach, Ca.