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Northeast Center's Carolyn Corbett Featured in Positive Thinking Magazine


Lake Katrine, NY May 8, 2008: Positive Thinking - the national magazine that presents a positive outlook on life has profiled Carolyn Corbett, as one of its Positive People, in the magazine’s issue of May-June, 2008. The profile, written by Leslie Kramer, highlights Ms. Corbett’s work at Northeast Center with traumatic brain injury survivors, individuals with spinal cord injury, and persons who are medically complex.

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Ms. Corbett is the Director of the Language Arts Program at Northeast Center for Special Care, a part of the Center’s award-winning Fine and Performing Arts program which integrates poetry, creative writing, performance, music, painting, and sculpture with other specialty rehabilitation services offered by the Center.

Since the program's inception, Ms. Corbett, an actor, writer, and filmmaker, has performed live readings of poetry written by Northeast Center for Special Care Resident-Neighbors. Readings and performances of their original works have occurred throughout the Hudson Valley of New York, as well as, in Albany for the New York State Traumatic Brain Injury Services Coordinating Council; in Vermont at Gallery-in-the-Field, where performances of Corbett’s stunning multi-media production I, in the Body, showcasing the original writings and readings of Resident-Neighbors of the Northeast Center won rave reviews from fellow artists and critics; and at the Mid-Hudson Brain Injury Rehabilitation Conference in Kingston. The prodigiously talented Ms. Corbett was most-recently honored by a 2007 New York State Healthcare Facilities Association Innovative Practices Award for the Fine and Performing Arts Program at Northeast Center for Special Care. Ms. Corbett is the writer, producer and director of the forthcoming film: The Edge of Things, which opens a window into the personal struggles and triumphs of a husband and wife, Lucille and Ed, as they deal with the devastation of her brain tumor, a love story of how art can recreate life, and of how the most important therapy is hope. In between projects, Carolyn Corbett, a ferocious advocate for the disabled, and the outlaw Resident-Neighbor artists of the Northeast Center tear up the web with their iconoclastic, irreverent, defiant, and inspiring videos. Her latest project: Cognitive Omelet, a multi-media book about artists of differing abilities at Northeast Center for Special Care, a unique collaboration among the remarkable staff and the inspired Resident-Neighbors who re-invent art and lives and serve it up to each other family-style in a therapeutic community that is itself a wondrous work of art.

Carolyn Corbett Biography

Fine and Performing Arts Video

The Edge of Things Trailer


Media contact: Northeast Center for Special Care, Deborah Muise, Media and Public Relations Director 845-336-3500

Northeast Center for Special Care is a state-of-art rehabilitation program for individuals with brain injury, neurobehavioral disorders, spinal cord injury, and ventilator dependency. Established in 1999, it is located on a 39-acre campus in the beautiful Hudson Valley. The mission of Northeast Center for Special Care is rehabilitation, recovery and community reentry for individuals with disabilities. Since its inception, hundreds of individuals have "graduated" from its programs and have moved on to integrated settings in their communities. Northeast Center has been honored with numerous awards including: The New York State Health Facilities Association’s (NYSHFA) Clinical and Quality Services Committee 2007 Innovative Practices Award, The Advance Magazine Award for Innovative Clinical Program, The American Association for Respiratory Care Quality Respiratory Care Recognition Award for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, The Gateway Community Industries Employer of the Year award and the Mid-Hudson Employment Alliance Outstanding Employer of Individuals with Disabilities.


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