BRC History
The year that Long Beach BRC opened.
When is 2012?
Special training where veterans focus on accessibility in technology. Instructional areas include general computer operation, internet and email, and/or integration of mobile devices.
What is Computer Access Training (CAT)?
This type of therapist uses a variety of modalities, including arts and crafts; drama, music, and dance; sports and games; aquatics; and community outings to help maintain or improve a patient's physical, social, and emotional well-being.
What is a Recreation Therapist?
This program was established in 1989 for Veterans to compete and subsequently exhibit artwork, share original writing, and/or perform music, dance, or dramatic selections.
What is the National Veterans Creative Arts Competition & Festival (NVCAF)?
After making 1.4 billion crayons, the senior crayon maker for Crayola in 1990 admitted this surprising fact about himself.
What is colorblind?
The facility is named after this optometrist, the first Army optometry officer to be killed in action while on active duty.
Who is Major Charles Robert Soltes, Jr. O.D.?
Veterans are provided and trained to manage various optical aids that will help make optimum use of his or her remaining vision. Such devices may include hand held magnifiers, Closed Circuit TV’s and monocular telescopes.
What is Visual Skills?
This sport was invented by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891. It originally used Peach Baskets as targets.
What is basketball?
This program was founded in 1981 to provide veterans with spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, amputations, stroke, and other neurological disorders an opportunity to compete in adaptive sports.
What is the National Veterans Wheelchair Games (NVWG)?
This rodent relies on their sense of hearing, smell, and touch more than their sight. Researchers have studied them in both light and dark environments and find their behavior doesn't change.
What is the naked mole-rat?
The number of Blind Rehabilitation Centers in the VA.
What is 13? (We are the most recently established!)
Veterans receive training and adaptive devices to assist with personal hygiene, clothing management, kitchen safety, meal preparation, cleaning, labeling, and organization.
What is Living Skills?
Bingo, Dominoes, and Blackjack have this in common.
What are tabletop games that have social components and cognitive benefits.
Founded in 1994, this program provides veterans with opportunities for rehabilitation, health, and wellness through adaptive golf instruction.
What is the National Disabled Veterans T.E.E. (Training, Exposure, Experience) Tournament?
In Japan, this type of label identifier was added on beer cans to help distinguish alcohol beverages from non-alcoholic drinks.
What is Braille?
This non-profit organization was founded by a group of blinded World War II veterans in 1945 to help veterans and their families meet and overcome the challenges of blindness.
What is the Blinded Veterans Association (BVA)?
Veterans learn how to navigate their surroundings and address which equipment is best to use for their travel needs. Related programs include advanced wayfinding and power mobility training.
What is Orientation & Mobility (O&M)?
A therapeutic intervention that focuses on inclusive activities in the community to promote active/productive roles in society.
What is Community Reintegration?
Through its “Fitness for Life” motto, this program is the only multi-sport competition designed to showcase the rehabilitative value that sports, wellness and fitness provide in the lives of senior veterans ages 55 years and older since 1985.
What is the National Veterans Golden Age Games (NVGAG)?
The use of sound waves and echoes to determine where objects are in space. Bats and other animals rely on this technique when their sight is compromised.
What is echolocation?
Our Therapeutic Putting Green was honored after this World War II veteran who loves to share his passion in golf.
Who is Howard A. Payne II?
This program allows veterans the opportunity to heighten their sensory awareness and problem-solving skills through guided craft projects.
What is Manual Skills?
The standard to which an individual is healthy, comfortable, and able to participate in or enjoy life events.
What is Quality of Life (QOL)?
These two programs offer veterans the opportunity to be exposed in seasonal outdoor sports using adaptive techniques and equipment (skiing, surfing, rock climbing, sled hockey, cycling, kayaking, etc.)
What are the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic (NDVWSC) and National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic (NVSSC)?
A 1992 American drama film that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to a surly, blind, retired Army officer.
What is Scent of a Woman?