WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

WHEREAS, The goal of a comprehensive trauma rehabilitation
services program is to improve the health and welfare of injured
individuals, by assisting those individuals in attaining their
maximum physical, psychological, and social potential in order to
enable them to engage in useful and productive work; and

WHEREAS, The rehabilitation process involves the
coordination and delivery of services to disabled individuals
from medical specialists, social workers, and counselors, and
other rehabilitation personnel involved with community-based
rehabilitation programs; and

WHEREAS, Various studies and initiatives have been
undertaken that provide data on the needs and demographics of
disabled individuals, and practical methods of service delivery,
program evaluation, and funding to enable the development of a
comprehensive trauma. rehabilitation services program; and

WHEREAS, As a means of developing a comprehensive trauma
rehabilitation services program, that will enable a disabled
individual to regain as high a level of productivity as possible,
resources need to be coordinated between and among the various
care providers; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That     the

Governor is requested to establish a coordinating council   to:

develop a comprehensive rehabilitation services program     for
individuals who have experienced traumatic injuries; document

needs and establish priorities; develop funding methods;   and

provide for the objective development of a public agenda for     the

coordination of trauma rehabilitation efforts in the State;   and
be it further

RESOLVED, That the coordinating council be composed of 14
20 21 members, appointed as follows:

(1)  1 representative from the Department of
Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation;

(2)  1 representative from the Maryland Head Injury
Foundation;

(3)  1 representative from the Spinal Cord Injury
Network;

(3) (4) 1 representative, specialized in
rehabilitation medicine, from the University of Maryland;

(4) (5) 1 representative from the Developmental
Disabilities Administration of the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene;

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