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WITF “The Spark” Interview with Richard Edley, Success Rehab’s Jack Poplar, and Others on Urgent BI Funding Request
In a recent interview with The Spark on WITF, RCPA President/CEO Richard Edley, Jack Poplar from Success Rehabilitation, Inc. and Ellie Lacasse, a parent of an adult with brain injury in long-term services are urging lawmakers to include a $13 million funding increase in the upcoming state budget to support residential rehabilitation services for individuals with traumatic brain injuries. An independent study recently commissioned by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services confirmed what providers have long warned: brain injury services are underfunded by 44%.
https://www.witf.org/2025/06/05/providers-push-lawmakers-for-13m-to-save-brain-injury-services/