The Foundation provides confidential assistance to individuals with epilepsy and their families throughout Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia.

Contact the Foundation staff for more information on the services provided, including:

• Community referral services to assist individuals in locating additional community resources, including assistance with legal, medical, vocational, transportation and housing issues
  
  
• Support group and support service programs which provide contacts and community networks for individuals with epilepsy and their families
  
  
• Up-to-date information and educational materials, available at no cost, focused on both the social and medical aspects of epilepsy
  
  
• A lending library of videos, books, national magazines, and other material
  on epilepsy
  
  
• Newsletter with local and national epilepsy news; EpilepsyUSA available
  with annual membership
  
  
• Seminars and conferences with expert speakers to highlight current issues for individuals with epilepsy;
  
  
• Pharmaceutical assistance programs which help individuals to locate and/or obtain discounts on prescribed anti-seizure medications;
  
  
• Limited financial assistance for emergency medication, available on a case-by-case basis
  
  
• Individual and group information sessions for seizure patients and their families;
  
  
• Volunteer opportunities for individuals interested in promoting the Epilepsy Foundation of Southeast Tennessee through internships, fundraising, community awareness, public speaking and communications;
  
  
• Need-based camperships to Camp Lakewood for children with epilepsy.
  
  
  No person shall be denied the services or facilities of the Foundation or be excluded from membership and participation therein because of national origin, sex, sexual preference, race, color, creed, religion, disability, ability to pay, or political persuasion.
  Discrimination of any sort is expressly prohibited. Back to Top