Opening greetings from Jean Zanca, PhD and Session I: “Understanding Your Options” presenter Joe Entwisle, MS, CRC “Rising to the Challenge:  Creating Employment Opportunity and Maximizing Success,” a consumer conference for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI), was held on Thursday, October 2, 2014 at Kessler Conference Center—1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, N.J. The conference is presented by the Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System (NNJSCIS) and sponsored by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, Kessler Foundation, and Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation. The Northern New Jersey Spinal Cord Injury System (NNJSCIS) is federally funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research from the U.S. Department of Education (Grant #H133N110020). A comprehensive system of care, research, education and dissemination aimed at improving quality of life for people with SCI, NNJSCIS collects patient data from the time of injury through long-term follow-up. NNJSCIS is one of 14 SCI Model Systems in the nation. Trevor Dyson-Hudson, M.D., Director of SCI Research at Kessler Foundation co-directs NNJSCIS with Dr. Kirshblum. Kessler Foundation is one of eight centers in the U.S. with dual Model Systems in SCI and traumatic brain injury. ★ Support this podcast ★