Brain Injury Service Coordination

Los Amigos, LLC is one of the providers of Brain Injury Services Coordination (SC) in the Metro and NE regions.

Los Amigos, LLC Brain Injury Services are supported by a contract with the New Mexico Human Services Department, which provides regulatory oversight and funding through the Brain Injury Services Fund Program.

What is the Brain Injury Services Fund (BISF) Program?

As a non-Medicaid program, the Brain Injury Services Fund Program is housed within the Exempt Services and Programs Bureau of the Medical Assistance Division (MAD) of the Human Services Department (HSD). This program provides programmatic oversight and funding for the contracted providers of both direct and support services for individuals living with brain injury.

Services offered through the BISF Program are short-term crisis interim services for individuals with Traumatic and other Acquired Brain Injury, who are not eligible to receive assistance from other programs. The BISF Program provides Service Coordination and BI-specific home and community-based services (HCBS), as well as any products not available from other programs to meet the participants’ BI-related needs. All services are provided on a short-term 90-day basis to residents of NM with a confirmed diagnosis of Brain Injury, in 90-day increments, for up to one year.

Qualifying Criteria

NM Resident
Diagnosis of BI
Crisis Intervention Need
Not Eligible to Received Assistance from other Programs

What is Service Coordination?

Service Coordination (SC) services are intended to be short-term services that include, but are not limited to, assessing, planning, coordinating, customizing, and monitoring participant home and community-based services funded by the BISF Program.

BISF Program Goal

To enhance the participant’s self-care and self-determination, promote independence from the program; promote independent functioning in the home and community and encourage optimal individual and family participation.

For more information visit:

BISF Tip Sheet

Servicios a Corto Plazo por Lesiones Traumaticas al Cerebro Tip Sheet- Spanish

Program Rules- NMAC 8.326.10

What is Brain Injury (BI)?

What is Brain Injury?

A TBI is caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head that disrupts the normal function of the brain. Not all blows or jolts to the head result in a TBI. The severity of a TBI may range from “mild” (i.e., a brief change in mental status or consciousness) to “severe” (i.e., an extended period of unconsciousness or memory loss after the injury). TBI results in impairment(s) in cognitive, psycho-social, and/or physical functioning. Such injuries result when outside acceleration, deceleration, rotational and/or shearing forces cause the brain to be violently jarred or displaced within the otherwise protective casing of the skull. A TBI is defined as one type of Acquired Brain Injury, which may be acquired by traumatic means following birth. Other Acquired Brain Injuries (ABI) which are not caused by an external force or trauma, may result in many of the same symptoms associated with Traumatic Brain Injury.