Celebrate five incredible years of impact with Therapists for Armenia at our 5-Year Anniversary Rooftop Fundraiser on Saturday, May 17, 2025, from 7PM to 12AM at Boro Hotel Rooftop (38-28 27th St, Long Island City, New York)! 

Join us for an unforgettable evening of community, music, and purpose—all in support of strengthening rehabilitation and disability services in Armenia and Artsakh. Early bird tickets are $50, and $60 starting May 10. Enjoy a complimentary drink, raffle prizes, dancing, and stunning skyline views. Let’s come together to honor the journey and build the future!

Can’t join us in person? Consider donating and include a message of encouragement for our volunteers. All proceeds help to strengthen rehabilitation and disability services in Armenia.

Tickets, details, and donations can be found here.

This month at our monthly member meeting we welcomed guest speakers and post-doctoral fellows in neuropsychology Maral Aghivinian and Lily Kamalyan to our monthly meeting where they presented on how the environments we live in can affect our brain health. Maral and Lily are co-founders of Meedk, an organization “dedicated to increasing knowledge, education, and research related to brain health among the global Armenian population.” Their presentation to our team of therapists was pertinent and informative.

Cognition plays a major role in a patient’s ability to access rehabilitation services and as therapists, PTs, OTs and SLPs must take this into consideration during our initial evaluation and throughout treatment plans. We often treat patients with cognitive differences or deficits due to acute brain injury or else chronic conditions, and we study the brain in order to better understand this. When it comes to studying the brain, we cannot separate the external factors from the internal ones. Our environment is one of the largest external factors we must consider and this presentation helped to highlight the many ways this can manifest in a patient. Thanks to Maral and Lily’s presentation, our team has some new food for thought to consider when it comes to addressing brain health!

Therapists for Armenia is excited to announce our new partnership with the Meghri Rehabilitation Center. Meghri is a town in Syunik Province bordering Iran, which is known for its picturesque, mountainous landscape and abundant persimmon and pomegranate trees. The distance from Yerevan and treacherous mountain roads make it difficult to reach Meghri, resulting in a substantial gap in rehabilitation services in the region. The opening of this new rehabilitation center will provide much needed services to the region and we are proud to be a part of this development.

We would like to thank Dr. Ara Babloyan and Dr. Gohar Khachatryan from Arbes Health Care Center for their support in this endeavor. We look forward to collaborating with these new clinicians and in turn supporting the population of Meghri.