Counseling • Rehabilitation • Advocacy • Consulting
Different Paths. One Purpose.
Life doesn’t always follow the plan.
Brinda Inc. brings together rehabilitation, disability advocacy, education, accessibility, consulting, and community-based projects with one shared purpose: helping people and organizations navigate change, remove barriers, and build paths forward that actually work.
Whether you’re adjusting to disability, navigating education or employment, trying to find the right resources, building a better service system, or looking for a community that understands—there’s a place to start.
For Individuals & Families
Off Script Counseling & Rehabilitation
Life doesn’t always follow the plan. Neither does recovery.
Person-centered rehabilitation services for people navigating disability, work, education, family changes, and major life transitions. Services and programs include vocational and career support, life and resource navigation, educational advocacy, Early Intervention/IFSP and IEP/504 support, transition-to-adulthood planning, acquired-disability life planning, and specialized groups.
Clinical counseling services are currently in development and coming soon.
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Life & Resource Navigation
Sometimes you don’t need another list of phone numbers. You need help figuring out what to do next.
Individualized navigation helps people and families identify needs, understand available systems and resources, prioritize next steps, connect with appropriate services, and develop an actionable plan.
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Educational Advocacy & Family Navigation
Helping families navigate disability services from Early Intervention through adulthood.
Support may include Early Intervention and IFSP navigation, IEP and 504 preparation and advocacy, educational resource navigation, and transition planning connecting school services with vocational rehabilitation, employment, postsecondary education, independent living, and adult disability systems.
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Vocational & Career Services
Work may change. Your options don’t end there.
Career exploration, return-to-work planning, vocational rehabilitation, transferable-skills exploration, workplace accommodations, disability disclosure decisions, job retention, and career planning for people navigating disability or major life changes.
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Groups & Specialized Programs
Off Script is also developing specialized programs that combine rehabilitation, meaningful activity, peer connection, vocational support, and community participation.
Working Memory
A job club focused on the unique challenges of working with brain injury—from executive functioning and fatigue to accommodations, career identity, and staying employed.
Your Brain on Dirt
A gardening-based wellness program exploring meaningful activity, routine, participation, connection, and the mental-health benefits of getting your hands in the dirt.
Free Range Humans
A peer-support and resource community for people questioning, leaving, or rebuilding life after high-control groups. Reconnect, rediscover, and learn what it means to choose your own adventure.
Free Agent
Vocational and career support for people rebuilding their working lives after high-control environments.
Uncharted
Individualized life planning and navigation for people building a future after high-control groups.
Programs not currently operating will be identified as In Development or Coming Soon.
For Organizations & Professionals
Off Script Consulting
When systems go off script, we build better paths forward.
Off Script Consulting helps organizations develop accessible, practical systems, programs, products, and services that work better for the people they’re intended to serve.
Consulting areas include disability and accessibility, program development, resource navigation, case management, housing systems, organizational capacity building, inclusive design, and disability representation.
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Program & Systems Development
Build the infrastructure behind effective human-service programs.
Services may include:
- Resource-navigation program development
- Case-management system design
- Intake, triage, referral, and follow-up workflows
- Policies and standard operating procedures
- Resource-database development
- Community resource mapping
- Service-gap analysis
- Referral-network development
- Staff and volunteer training
- Program implementation support
Disability & Housing Systems
Consultation focused on improving access to housing and community services for people with disabilities, including individuals with brain injury.
Areas of expertise include disability housing systems, housing navigation, homelessness-response systems, Continuum of Care collaboration, cross-agency coordination, community-resource development, and disability-informed program design.
Accessibility & Inclusive Design
Accessibility should be considered when something is being built—not after people encounter barriers.
Consultation may include accessibility and usability review, disability-inclusive program design, physical product accessibility, accessible instructions and educational materials, cognitive accessibility, and incorporating disabled users into the development process.
Media & Disability Representation
Consultation for writers, producers, content creators, and organizations seeking more accurate and nuanced representations of disability, rehabilitation, brain injury, accessibility, and disability-service systems.
Services may include script and content review, terminology consultation, plausibility review, identification of stereotypes or accessibility issues, and recommendations for additional lived-experience expertise when appropriate.
Training & Technical Assistance
Customized education and technical assistance for organizations, professionals, volunteers, and community programs.
Topics may include brain injury, disability and accessibility, resource navigation, case management, rehabilitation systems, disability-inclusive services, accommodations, community participation, and program implementation.
Projects & Community
Not everything meaningful has to happen in an office.
Brinda Inc. also develops creative, educational, peer-support, and community projects centered on accessibility, autonomy, participation, and connection.
Uglier Than Homemade Sin
Adaptive crafting, accessible knitting, creativity, and mental health—with considerably less interest in perfection.
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Free Range Humans
Peer support, resources, and community for people finding their own way during and after high-control environments.
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The Read Rover
Books, reviews, reading lists, and resources exploring disability, mental health, personal growth, and the wonderfully weird places books can take us.
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HeartBridge
A developing volunteer initiative supporting aging adults and families through practical assistance, intergenerational connection, resource navigation, and relationships across differences.
Service without agenda. Connection across differences.
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About Brinda
Brinda Dungan brings together experience in rehabilitation counseling, education, vocational services, disability resource navigation, housing and community systems, program development, accessibility, and advocacy.
Her work spans direct support for individuals and families as well as systems-level work with organizations and communities. Across those settings, the goal remains the same: identify barriers, expand choices, connect people with meaningful resources, and build systems that support participation rather than create more obstacles.
Find Your Path
I need help for myself or my family.
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My organization needs consultation, training, or program development.
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I’m looking for groups, projects, resources, or community.
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Different paths. One purpose. Your next step starts here.
Look forward to chatting with you soon!
