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The State Brain Injury Programme — a Five-Minute Screen, Then a Referral

A state programme within the human services agency that screens for traumatic brain injury, refers to a clinician for diagnosis, and holds a list of brain injury providers across the state. The veterans office points veterans at it for blast exposure, wounds above the shoulders, vehicle crashes, falls and blows to the head.

Verified August 23, 2026

What this benefit is

A state programme within the human services agency that screens for traumatic brain injury, refers to a clinician for diagnosis, and holds a list of brain injury providers across the state. The veterans office points veterans at it for blast exposure, wounds above the shoulders, vehicle crashes, falls and blows to the head.

What it's worth: A state-run brain injury screen, referral for medical diagnosis, and a statewide list of brain injury providers

  • The veterans office describes the screen as a short verbal test taking about five minutes.
  • The programme sits within the state human services agency and is not limited to veterans.
  • The veterans office names the service circumstances that should prompt a screen: proximity to blasts or explosions, fragment or bullet wounds above the shoulders, vehicle crashes, and falls or blows to the head.
  • The office does not state a discharge test or a rating test for access.

Who is entitled to it

  • Your discharge characterisation is within the usual range for state veteran programmes.
  • You are in this state.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Ring the programme rather than waiting for a referral. It is reached directly and the screen is described as a five-minute verbal test.
  2. 2Take the screen even if the incident was decades ago and even if you never lost consciousness. The prompts the veterans office lists — blast proximity, a fall, a vehicle crash — do not require a dramatic injury.
  3. 3A screen is not a diagnosis. Its job is to decide whether a medical referral is warranted, so treat a positive screen as the start of a process rather than an answer.
  4. 4Ask for the provider list. The programme holds a statewide list of clinicians and services, which is worth more than the screen to someone already diagnosed and looking for care nearer home.
  5. 5Raise it with the veterans office at the same time. A brain injury identified now may bear on a federal disability claim, and the claim and the care are two separate errands that are best started together.
  6. 6If symptoms are behavioural rather than physical — irritability, memory, sleep — say so. Those are the ones people leave out of the call and they are frequently the ones that matter.
Form
No form — the programme is reached by telephone
File with
The state brain injury programme, within the human services agency
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
Worth knowingRecorded with a modest value because it is a screen and a referral rather than funded treatment. It is here because the corpus had nothing on brain injury anywhere, and because a five-minute phone call is an unusually low barrier for something this consequential.
CorrectionThis is a general state programme, not a veterans programme. That cuts both ways: nobody will ask about your discharge, and nobody there is thinking about your federal claim either. Bring that part to the veterans office.
Known gapThe veterans office does not say what the programme pays for beyond screening and referral, or whether there is any state funding for treatment. That is the question that decides whether this is a signpost or a benefit.

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