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The Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center (WWRC), a division of the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services (DRS), provides a full compliment of medical, technological, and vocational rehabilitative services to persons with disabilities to assist them in obtaining employment and to live more independently. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive centers of its kind in the United States, and is the first state-owned and operated comprehensive rehabilitation center in the country. The Center is named for President Woodrow Wilson, born in nearby Staunton, Virginia and who signed into law the first federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act in 1920, providing services for people with disabilities in industry.

The mission of Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center is to provide people with disabilities comprehensive, individualized services to realize optimal personal independence and employment.

Vocational Programs and Services

·             Brain Injury Services (BIS): The Brain Injury Services program serves persons with acquired brain injuries as well as traumatic brain injuries. It assists each individual to achieve his or her vocational and independent living goals by capitalizing on their strengths and talents.

·             Counseling and Case Management: Each individual enrolled in a program of services at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center has a Rehabilitation Counselor assigned to provide guidance, counseling and case management throughout their stay. The Rehabilitation Counselor assists each individual in planning, accessing, and managing their services effectively so as to provide the best possible opportunity to achieve their goals, and to learn and demonstrate advocacy skills.

·             Life Skills Transition Program: The Life Skills Transition Program has been created to provide a comprehensive approach to teaching individuals the job of daily life and living with others. The program provides instruction in interpersonal skills, independent living skills, pre-employment skills, leisure skills, and basic workplace literacy.

·             Postsecondary Education Rehabilitation Transition (PERT) Program: The PERT Program school-to-work transition initiative for eligible youth with disabilities in participating local school divisions. It is collaboratively administered by the Virginia Department of Education and Department of Rehabilitative Services and operated from the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center.

·             Vocational Evaluation: Vocational evaluation is a comprehensive, systematic process in which students and staff work together to identify and assess the student’s vocational interests, abilities, strengths, weaknesses, aptitudes, and functional limitations relative to the student's preferred rehabilitation goal or employment outcome. The outcome is a comprehensive vocational evaluation report that is used for further rehabilitation planning towards successful, sustained employment outcomes.

·             Woodrow Wilson Center for Employment (WWCE): The Woodrow Wilson Center for Employment assists individuals with disabilities in becoming prepared for employment, higher education, and/or other career development goals by maximizing employment, occupational, and self-sufficiency skills. The Center provides career and technical education training and related instructional supports to prepare people for competitive entry-level employment in growth occupations.

Medical Programs and Services

·             Assistive Technology: Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center offers state-of-the-art evaluation, consultation, and treatment programs for individuals who require assistive technology to live, work and go to school as independently as possible. It provides comprehensive interdisciplinary technology assessments and customized technology services, which may include special and individualized computer technology, customized rehabilitation engineering and fabrication, augmentative alternative communication, mobility enhancement, and adaptive devices for daily living and recreation. Also see the VA Assistive Technology Assessments topic for additional information.

·             Communication Services: WWRC's Communication Services Department helps to enable people with communication and cognitive disabilities to communicate and function as independently as possible in their homes, schools, communities, and work. It offers a wide range of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology services.

·             Occupational Therapy (OT): Occupational Therapy helps people regain, develop and build skills that are important for independent living, health and happiness through the remediation of performance limitations and the incorporation of compensatory strategies and assistive technology.

·             Outpatient Services: Outpatient Services, providing the expertise and comprehensiveness of WWRC services, are available to any person requiring outpatient medical rehabilitation. Most public (Medicare and Medicaid) and private funding sources (private, third party, Workers' Compensation) are accepted. DRS sponsorship is not a prerequisite to access WWRC’s Outpatient Services.

·             Physical Therapy: Physical Therapy aims to help persons whose lives have been changed by injury or illness that has resulted in movement-related disability or painful conditions. Physical Therapists work with clients to meet the challenges they are facing with their injury or illness with the goal of helping them regain functional independence so that they can get back to living their lives at home and in their community.

·             Physicians and Nursing Services: Persons with medical problems such as stroke, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, neurological disorders, limited mobility and self care, cognitive disorders, psychosocial and psychiatric impairments are served in the Inpatient and Outpatient Medical Rehabilitation Programs. These programs provide medical and nursing care, coordinate and manage physical restorative, psychosocial and other services enabling the patient/student to achieve optimum levels of physical, social and psychological functioning within their living environment.

·             Psychological Services: Psychological Services Department clinicians assist consumers to achieve their optimal level of independence in community living. The department is staffed by licensed clinical psychologists, clinical neuropsychologists, licensed professional counselors, and other behavioral health specialists. Consumers may be referred, or may refer themselves, for an evaluation or treatment.

·             Short Term Rehabilitation Unit (STRU): The Short Term Rehabilitation Unit at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center provides a residential living option for individuals with disabilities to receive comprehensive, client focused, outpatient rehabilitative services which enable them to achieve their potential for self-sufficiency within their home and community. It provides a 24-hour therapeutic environment that accommodates clients requiring advanced rehabilitation programs.

·             Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Program: WWRC's Spinal Cord Injury Program is available to individuals 15 years or older who are medically stable, and are in need of SCI-related services. The goal of the SCI Program is to achieve the individual’s highest attainable functioning level through team involvement of the client and his or her family. The program emphasizes treatment planning and intervention to teach self-sufficiency, responsibility for managing personal and physical needs, and vocational preparation.

·             Supported Living Services (SLI): Supported Living Services is a residential option for clients needing personal care while participating in Vocational Training at Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center. Depending on the level of need, clients receive minimal to maximal assistance in basic hygiene, dressing, and related activities of daily living.

Contact Information

Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center
P O Box 1500
Fishersville, VA 22939

Voice: (540) 332-7000
Toll free: 1-800-345-9972
TTY: 1-800-811-7893
Fax: (540) 332-7132

See Also:

Eligibility for Services

Employment Services

Community Based Services

Assistive Technology Services

Assistive Technology Assessments

Nursing Home Outreach

DRS Financial Participation in Cost of Services

Department of Rehabilitative Services Overview

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Detailed information about WWRC and its services are available at: http://wwrc.virginia.gov/.

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