More than half of homeless adults have a history of traumatic brain injury. OWGER exists to address the neurological root of housing instability — before chronic homelessness takes permanent hold.
Our Mission
Standard homeless services — shelter, case management, therapy — consistently underperform for people with unaddressed TBI. Not because the services are bad, but because they require a brain that is stable enough to use them. Insomnia, chronic stress, and emotion dysregulation driven by TBI prevent the neural consolidation that recovery requires.
OWGER restores that neurological foundation first. Our three-pillar protocol addresses the secondary cascade of TBI — the sleep disruption, autonomic hyperactivation, and cellular instability that silently drive housing failure year after year.
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The Protocol
OWGER delivers a coordinated protocol combining three evidence-based modalities, each addressing a distinct physiological mechanism that standard services cannot reach.
Non-invasive neuro-acoustic feedback therapy with published clinical evidence for chronic insomnia and acute stress reduction — the two most persistent neurological barriers to housing stability after TBI. Resets the brain's dysregulated stress response without medication.
Pharmaceutical-grade micronutrient formulation (TrueHope EMPowerplus) with approximately 30 years of clinical use. Addresses the nutritional deficiencies that amplify mood instability and cognitive impairment in populations experiencing chronic stress and poor diet.
Quinton Marine Plasma, grounded in the "Law of Marine Constancy" established by French physiologist Rene Quinton in 1897. Restores the mineral balance of the body's internal cellular environment — the foundation of cellular integrity and resilience. Led by Robert Slovak, the leading North American authority on Quinton protocols.
"Rene Quinton understood that the body's internal sea must mirror the ocean from which all life arose. We have forgotten this truth — and the cost is written in the faces of every person sleeping on our streets."Robert Slovak, Chief Science & Technology Officer
The Model
OWGER's services are delivered through California-licensed Crisis Stabilization Units (CSUs) — a short-duration voluntary stabilization model regulated by California DHCS. CSUs are the bridge between street crisis and long-term care, and they are where neurological recovery begins.
Every client is screened for TBI history at intake using validated tools. The first organization in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties to do this systematically.
A structured short-term course of the three-pillar protocol. Targets insomnia, stress dysregulation, and cellular nutritional deficiency simultaneously.
Clients transition to housing, therapy, and support services with a neurologically stable foundation — dramatically improving outcomes for the services that follow.
Every client outcome is documented. OWGER builds the data set proving neurological recovery improves housing stability — the foundation for county contracts and federal grants.
Get Involved
OWGER is building the organization that has been missing from the homelessness response: one that treats neurological recovery as the first step, not an afterthought. We're looking for partners, donors, and equity co-founders who share that conviction.