Contact: Huntersville (704) 992-1424 Asheville (828) 274-0570 The Hinds’ Feet Farm Day Program is a paradigm shift from the traditional medical, treatment, model for people living with brain injury, to a model that embraces a holistic health and wellness orientation, empowering members toward occupation and meaning in life post injury. Created by, and for, persons living with brain injury; membe
rs actively participate throughout the entire infrastructure of the program.Hinds’ Feet Farm is person-centered, member empowered, self-determined, free choice, conceptualized and driven program. Members are self governing through the fluidity of the program by self-designing opportunities to engage in reestablishing and empowering occupation. Program staff, family and professional caregivers, in-kind community volunteers and student interns are guides for members in opportunities for exploration, discovery, confidence and self-esteem in their new identity and meaning in life post-injury. A Member Bill of Rights, membership criteria, and program rules structure inclusion in the program while referrals will be encouraged through the existing network of brain injury service deliveries throughout the greater Charlotte community. Our goal is to serve individuals in the Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Rowan and Iredell county areas. The daily programming schedule is based on member focus groups through ongoing needs assessments, improvement feedback and program evaluations. Through Hinds’ Feet Farm’s holistic health and wellness, and empowerment model, members may choose to participate in daily, skill training, thematic-based, workshops.