More than half of homeless adults have a history of traumatic brain injury. OWG 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.
OWG 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
OWG 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 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.
Marine mineral supplementation, 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 these 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 Approach
OWG is establishing a regional model for adults affected by TBI in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. The organization's approach centers on four elements: early TBI identification, neurological support, connection to community care resources, and outcome monitoring.
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 course of the three-pillar protocol addressing insomnia, stress dysregulation, and cellular nutritional deficiency simultaneously.
Clients move to housing, therapy, and support services with a neurologically stable foundation — improving outcomes for the services that follow.
Every client outcome is documented. OWG builds the data set proving neurological recovery improves housing stability — the foundation for county contracts and federal grants.
Get Involved
OWG 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 are looking for Phase 1 anchor donors, banking and foundation partners, and a California-licensed Clinical Director who can lead us into Phase 2.