March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, sponsored by the Brain Injury Association of America

San Marcos, TX February 27, 2006 - ResCare Premier, a leading national provider of programs and services for persons with acquired brain injury, applauds the Brain Injury Association of America’s 2006 Brain Injury Awareness Campaign, Living with Brain Injury, set for March 2006.

Living with Brain Injury continues as the theme for the third year of the Brain Injury Association of America’s Brain Injury Awareness Month (BIAM) campaign. To raise awareness and improve the public’s understanding of brain injury and its life-altering consequences, BIAA is offering new materials for the public, those who have experienced a brain injury, their family members/caregivers, professionals and interested persons. The Living with Brain Injury packet includes:

  • Overcoming Loneliness and Building Lasting Relationships after Brain Injury booklet;
  • Preparing for Life after High School: The Next Steps booklet;
  • A Basic Glossary: Legal Terms for People with Brain Injury booklet;
  • Communicating with an Adult after Brain Injury tip card;
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Facts about Traumatic Brain Injury fact sheet;
  • Directory of the Association’s Chartered State Affiliates; and
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems sheet.

The “Living with Brain Injury” packet is now available for Brain Injury Awareness Month 2006. Interested persons may obtain one hard copy of the Brain Injury Awareness Kit while supplies last or download files directly from the BIAA’s website.

is an in-network provider for many national and regional health care insurance companies, Workers’ Compensation insurers, and on a limited basis, will enter into Security and Assignment of Proceeds Agreements. Since opening its doors, ResCare Premier has expanded and developed programs to meet the diverse needs of individuals with acquired brain injury. As a unique group of interrelated treatment facilities, residential communities, and specialty programs located across the United States and Canada, we offer a full continuum of rehabilitation and residential services designed to meet treatment needs “from the door of the hospital to the door of the home – or any door that opens opportunity for our participants.”

from time to time makes forward-looking statements in its public disclosures, including statements relating to the Company's expected financial results, revenues that might be expected from new or acquired programs and facilities, other statements regarding development and acquisition activities, statements regarding reimbursement under federal and state programs and statements regarding various trends favoring downsizing, de-institutionalization and privatization of government programs. In the Company's filings under the federal securities laws, including its annual, periodic and current reports, the Company identifies important factors that could cause the Company's results to differ materially from those contained in such forward-looking statements. We refer you to the discussion of those factors in our filed reports.

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