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100% of your donation directly supports brain injury clubhouses in North Texas.
BIN clubhouses are unique community-based programs that provide a supportive environment for adult brain injury survivors of stroke, TBI, brain cancer, and other conditions. Programs are provided at no cost to the survivor and are offered as a lifetime resource.
Brain Injury Network has two clubhouses, BIND in Plano and BINDFW in Fort Worth. BIN provides the only brain injury clubhouses in Texas and serves as an information resource for survivors and other nonprofits across the state.
Success for Brain Injury Clubhouse Members
The primary outcome of clubhouse programs is for members served to successfully reintegrate into community after a brain injury.
Success is a deeply personal journey for each member.
For some members, it's the triumph of returning to work, school, or volunteering. For others, it's the daily victory of staying busy to stay sober. And for some, it's the joy of giving back to fellow brain survivors. These unique stories of resilience and determination inspire us every day. Member goals may include continued improvement in speech, mobility, or social skills, each a testament to the power of continuing recovery, hope, and community.
The organization was founded in 2012 when our founder realized that brain injury survivors, as medical patients, need a service that continues to provide support after medical rehabilitation ends. Rehabilitation is excellent for acute recovery, but it is often time-limited, leaving a profound void once those services end. Unmet needs included addressing social isolation, the loss of purpose, and the lingering cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial deficits that severely restrict community re-entry and long-term quality of life.
The Brain Injury Clubhouse Model, which is the core of BIN's programs, is uniquely designed to fill this gap by providing long-term, community-based support focused on re-engagement and empowerment.
BIN serves an average of 12 members per 6-hour program day (M-F), an average of 50 weeks a year — a total of 1,500 hours of service available annually for each member.
BIN has a small but mighty team of 4-6 staff members, skilled interns from colleges and universities in the DFW area and volunteers providing all programs and services.
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Imagine being suddenly unable to read, walk, or remember how to use your phone or coffee maker? Imagine being unable to speak, to ask someone for help, or tell a family member "I love you." What if you and your family were unprepared for the loss of income and loss of independence caused by a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or brain cancer? For 100% of Brain Injury Network clubhouse program members, brain injury came without warning.
Per the Texas division of the Brain Injury Association of America, currently, approximately 381,000 Texans live with a TBI-related disability while 144,000 Texans sustain a TBI each year thereby making Texas the state with the second highest number of TBIs in the nation. And these numbers only include one kind of acquired brain injury.
The Brain Injury Network's mission is to provide tools and a bridge of support to adult with acquired brain injuries so they can reconnect to life, the community, and the workplace or community volunteering - based on the individual's goals. Our vision is to lead the DFW area in the provision of brain injury member-driven services and serve as the model for brain injury clubhouses across the state.
Our significant needs lie in the continued support of our programs, operations. Ongoing in-kind support needs include support for clubhouse activities through donations and gift cards for groceries, program supplies, including printer paper and toner, and supplies for special projects.
Community events include our Clubhouse Classic Golf Tournament on October 6, 2025 and the North Texas Brain Injury Awareness Walk - Synapse Laps in spring 2026.
Brain Injury Network is committed to addressing the systematic work of acknowledging and dismantling any inequities within our organization.
Organization name
Brain Injury Network / BIND & BINDFW Clubhouses
other names
Brain Injury Network of Dallas
Causes
Mental and Behavioral Health
Operating Budget
$500,000 - $999,999
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas, Denton, Parker, Tarrant
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Address
1416 Gables Court