Celebrate Brain Injury Awareness Month – Live Better Longer!
Help students, seniors, motorcyclists, and yourself Live Better Longer. Join the Brain Injury Association, the CDC and the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force in celebrating March as Brain Injury Awareness Month. Here’s what you can do:
All materials are downloadable; no kits will be mailed from BIAA this year.
The materials described below are downloadable for free. If you wish to purchase printed materials such as posters, fact sheets, and educational booklets, please visit BIAA’s online market.
Student Awareness Tools – For Use by Parents
BIAA has produced a public service announcement to Help Students Live Better, Longer: Prevent Brain Injury.” These materials are targeted to parents. A concussion and sports fact sheet is now available.
Senior Awareness Tools – For Use by Adult Children of Seniors
The CDC produced awareness materials to “Help Seniors Live Better, Longer: Prevent Brain Injury.” This campaign is targeted to children and caregivers of older adults. The CDC’s kit includes an activity guide, media guide, fact sheet, and other materials to prevent, recognize, and respond to fall-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) in adults 75 and older.
BIAA has produced a public service announcement to Help Motorcycle Riders Live Better, Longer: Prevent Brain Injury.” A motorcycle helmet fact sheet is now available.
Policy Maker Awareness Tools – For use by Advocates
BIAA is co-sponsoring the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force Awareness Fair, briefing and evening reception on March 12, 2008, in Washington, DC. If you can’t attend in person, please join thousands of others in telling their story by making an origami crane with a personal notation and decorated if desired. (see more on this below the photo of paper cranes ) The paper cranes will be displayed at the Congressional Brain Injury Awareness Fair on Capitol Hill. The goal is to spread awareness of traumatic brain injury through personal stories. Follow the instructions for making your origami and mail your crane by March 7, 2008, to:
Brain Crane Project
Brain Injury Association of America
1608 Spring Hill Rd, Suite 110
Vienna, VA 22182
2008 Advocacy Fact Sheets
2008 TBI Invisible Injury Department of Education (pdf)
2008 TBI Invisible Injury Department of Defense (pdf)
2008 TBI Invisible Injury Department of Health and Human Services (pdf)
All materials are downloadable; no kits will be mailed from BIAA this year.
The materials described above are downloadable for free. If you wish to purchase printed materials such as posters, fact sheets, and educational booklets, please visit BIAA’s online market.
Many of BIAA’s chartered state affiliates are hosting awareness events throughout the month. Check with your state affiliate to get involved.
Brain Crane Project - Increase awareness of brain injury.
Deacon Patrick Jones from Colorado initiated the Brain Crane Project for 2008 March Brain Injury Awareness Month. He asked individuals with traumatic brain injury to join the effort in increasing awareness of brain injury by making an origami crane with a personal notation and decoration if desired. The paper cranes were mailed to the BIAA office and displayed at the Congressional Brain Injury Awareness Fair, March 12, 2008 on Capitol Hill. The goal was to spread the awareness of traumatic brain injury through personal stories.
As you can see, they were simply beautiful...
Brain Cranes on display
We are deeply saddened at the passing of Dr. Ayub Khan Ommaya, former Chief of Neurosurgery at NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders. To learn more about his tremendous scientific contributions to our knowledge of TBI, click here.
We say goodbye to William Bryan Jennett, CBE, M.D., FRCS, distinguished clinician and scholar (Glasgow Coma Scale; Glasgow Outcome Scale) who passed at age 81. To read More and leave your tribute, click here.
BIAA mourns the passing of Charles W. Haynes, former Board Chairman and long-time advocate. Click here to read more about Charles and to leave your tribute.
We deeply mourn the passing of Mitchell Rosenthal, Ph.D., ABPP, who died on May 31, 2007 after a long and distinguished career in brain injury. Click here to read about Mitch’s many contributions and to leave your own tribute, which will be shared with his family.
We deeply mourn the passing of Randall W. Evans, Ph.D., ABPP, who died unexpectedly on July 6, 2007. Click here to read about Randy’s many contributions to the field and to leave your own tribute, which will be shared with his family
The “Heads Up: Brain Injury in Your Practice” tool kit can be ordered or downloaded free-of-charge at: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/tbi_toolkit/toolkit.htm
To learn more about concussion or MTBI and/or for more information on CDC’s TBI-related educational materials, research, and programs, please visit CDC’s Injury Center on the Web at www.cdc.gov/injury. For questions, please contact CDC toll-free at 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636).
April 17th, 2007:
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Look here for the position statement, media release and other materials (Note - all of these materials are in Adobe PDF format):
Media Release on Cognitive Rehabilitation
Position Statement on Cognitive Rehabilitation
BIA of America Overview
TBI Fact Sheet
Bios and Photos for Subject Matter Experts:
Douglas I. Katz, M.D.
Mark J. Ashley, Sc.D.
Gregory J. O’Shanick, M.D.
Susan H. Connors
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month
Brain Injury Awareness Day on Capitol Hill March 13, 2007, 10:00am – 5:00pm. Click here for the Schedule (PDF)
Coming to Capitol Hill? BIAA has talking points to help you in meetings with your congressional representatives:
Talking Points:
Invisible Injury – Department of Defense (PDF)
Invisible Injury – Department of Education (PDF)
Invisible Injury – Department of Health and Human Services (PDF)
Invisible Injury – Congressional Brain Injury Task Force (PDF)
Congressional Task Force "Dear Colleague" Letters:
Defense & Veterans Brain Injury Center (PDF
TBI Act Appropriations #1 (PDF
TBI Act Appropriations #2 (PDF)
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Currently, there are at least 5.3 million Americans living with a disability because of a brain injury and the estimated lifetime costs of brain injury (including direct medical costs and indirect costs such as lost productivity) totaled $60 billion in 2000. Every 23 seconds a traumatic brain injury occurs, and in the next year, an average of 1.4 million Americans will sustain a traumatic brain injury. |
To raise awareness about brain injury and its life-altering consequences, BIAA announces the availability of new materials for the public, those who have experienced a brain injury, their family members/caregivers, professionals and interested persons. A new brain injury awareness packet and materials are now available.
The 2007 kit includes: (note - some of these are large PDF files)
Behavioral Challenges after Brain Injury booklet;
Challenges, Changes, and Choices: A Brain Injury Guide for Families and Caregivers booklet;
Driving After Brain Injury: Issues, Obstacles and Possibilities booklet;
Falls: The Leading Cause of Brain Injury booklet;
A Physician Talks about Severe Brain Injury. The Basics booklet;
A poster reflecting the diversity of traumatic brain injury across the United States;
Four fact sheets outlining personal stories of traumatic brain injury;
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Facts about Traumatic Brain Injury fact sheet;
Directory of the Association’s Chartered State Affiliates;
Frequently Asked Questions about the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Program;
BIAA Bookstore informational sheet If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free by clicking on the icon below.
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