Resource Hub
This is the map.
If you are looking for something specific — a question about insurance, a symptom you can’t name, a conversation you don’t know how to start with your spouse or your child’s principal — this is where you start. The practical tools below are ready to print tonight.
If you are in crisis right now:
Call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Veterans: call 988 and press 1, or text 838255. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.
If a brain injury is suspected and the survivor has not been evaluated, go to the nearest emergency room. Do not wait.
Start with the tools you can use immediately. Then browse the library two ways — by the first 90 days, or by the four Guidance Pillars — whichever fits where you are standing right now.
First Days Home
Tools a family can use tonight
Free · Print-ready PDFs
Eight worksheets for the stretch between the hospital door and the first follow-up — the lists, trackers, and questions that keep a household running when nobody has slept. Print them, put them on the refrigerator, bring them to appointments. Educational, not medical advice: follow the treating team’s instructions for medical decisions and emergencies.
Checklist
First 30 Days: Exact Tasks for Caregivers
A day-by-day action list from the hospital door through day 30. Every open task gets a named owner and a next date.
Tracker
Medication List
One current list that travels with the survivor to every appointment. Update it whenever a medication starts, stops, or changes.
Directory
Provider & Contact List
The whole care team on one page: who is involved, what each person is managing, and who owns the next step.
Worksheet
Questions to Ask Before Discharge
Use it before leaving the ER, the hospital, or inpatient rehab. Ask for plain language, write the answers down, know who owns the next step.
Tracker
Symptom Tracker
For symptoms that come and go. Track patterns, not perfection: what changed, what came before it, how long it lasted, what helped.
Worksheet
Caregiver Notes
Preserve what happens between appointments — the changes you notice, the calls you make, the instructions you receive, the questions you do not want to lose.
Master List
Care Coordination Master List
Every appointment, referral, and unresolved question in one place, so nothing depends on memory alone.
Summary
30-Day Recovery Snapshot
At day 30, summarize what has changed with specific, observable examples. Bring it to follow-up appointments so providers see the pattern.
Coming Soon to the Hub
The First 90 Days After a TBI.
A Family Survival Guide.
The next major resource in the Hub: the complete guide to the first 90 days, organized by the five parts of the AFTER Framework — bedside advocacy, ER red flags, documentation, the IME doctor, insurance in the first 30 days, building the team, and the long arc that follows. Free, as a PDF, the day it is released.
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By the First 90 Days
Articles coming soon
The First 30 Days
Survival mode, with a pen in your hand
Bedside advocacy, ICU questions, ER red flags, documentation basics, what to sign and what to never sign without reading.
Coming Soon
Days 30–60
The system hands you the keys
Discharge transitions, building the therapy team, insurance pre-authorizations, the first conversations with employers and schools.
Coming Soon
Days 60–90
The long arc begins
The IME doctor, the long-arc denials, caregiver burnout, the marriage strain conversation, the siblings conversation.
Coming Soon
By the Four Guidance Pillars
Four ways of naming what you’re carrying
Every piece in the Hub serves one of the four Guidance Pillars. Start with the one that matches the weight you’re holding today.
The Invisible Reality
What TBI is, why it hides, what to watch for, and how to explain it to people who keep asking when things will get back to normal.
Systemic Failure
The gaps the family is left to fill: insurance denials, IME doctors, peer-to-peer reviews, statute of limitations clocks, evidence preservation.
The Guide, Not the Hero
Survivors and caregivers in their own words, on what worked, what didn’t, and what they wish someone had told them at week three.
Radical Empathy
The caregiver’s mental health, grief that begins now, the sibling who got quiet, the marriage that is running on fumes, the financial fear nobody is talking about — and how to handle the mounting stress.
By the AFTER Framework
Five letters. One path.
A
Acknowledge the Split
Reflective content for the early days. Permission to grieve before the medical system has finished saving the life.
F
Face the Invisible
Witnessing content that names what is hiding in plain sight.
T
Take Strategic Steps
The practical heart of the Hub. Bedside questions, ER red flags, documentation, the IME explainer, insurance basics, when to call a lawyer.
E
Establish the Team
Building the therapy team, navigating handoff cliffs, FMLA and disability paperwork — and the caregiver also needs a team.
R
Rebuild with Intention
The long-arc content. The Wednesday morning three years later. Plateaus, neuroplasticity, identity rebuilding.
What’s in the Hub at Launch
The Hub opens with the tools families can use immediately — the First Days Home worksheets above — and the AFTER | TBI Podcast. The First 90 Days survival guide is the next major resource to arrive; leave your email above and we will tell you the day it is released. After that, new material publishes on a steady cadence, alternating between tactical and reflective, as the Hub grows into the long-term reference library AFTER is built to be.
A Note on What This Is
Everything in the Resource Hub is educational, not advice.
Medical claims are cited. Legal information is provided to help families understand the system they are now inside, not to substitute for an attorney who knows the specifics of your case. When something matters to your specific situation, talk to the right professional in your jurisdiction.
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