Brain Injury Links

• The Brain & Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission
  www.bsitf.state.ga.us

  Georgians with traumatic brain and spinal injuries deserve lives of independence and inclusion, lives rich with vision and possibilities. Trust Fund awards assist individuals with injuries in reaching these goals.

• The Brain Injury Association of Georgia
  www.braininjurygeorgia.org

  The Brain Injury Association of Georgia is a non-profit organization serving individuals with brain injuries and their families, friends and service providers.

• Brain Injury Family Resources Blog
  www.braininjuryfamily.net

  The mission of BIFR is to help family members of brain-injury survivors by providing encouragement, advice, information, and resources in a supportive community.

• The Brain Injury News and Information Blog
  www.braininjury.blogs.com

  This blog, which is authored by Michael V. Kaplen, Esq., an attorney specializing in representing people with a brain injury, provides the latest news and information on brain injury, concussion, coma, traumatic epilepsy, and other brain trauma. You can subscribe to the blog at his website.

• The Brain Injury Resource Foundation
  www.birf.info

  The mission of the Brain Injury Resource Foundation is to provide education, advocacy and support for persons affected by brain injury.

• BrainLine
  www.brainline.org

  BrainLine is a national multimedia project offering information and resources about preventing, treating, and living with a brain injury. It includes a series of webcasts, electronic newsletters, and an extensive outreach campaign in partnership with national organizations concerned about brain injury. (703) 998-2020

• CaringBridge
  www.caringbridge.org

  CaringBridge offers free websites that support and connect family members and friends during critical illnesses, treatment, and recovery. This is an easy way to keep everyone up to date on your survivor's progress.

• CDC - Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports
  www.cdc.gov/concussioninYouthSports

  To help ensure the health and safety of young athletes, CDC developed the “Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports” initiative to offer information about concussions — a type of traumatic brain injury — to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports.

• Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
  http://www.dvbic.org

  The DVBIC serves active duty military, their dependents, and veterans with brain injury through state-of-the-art medical care, innovative clinical research initiatives, and educational programs. Information is available in Spanish. (800) 870-9244

• Lake & Associates Publishing/Training Inc.
  www.lapublishing.com

  Lash & Associates produces and sells practical and user-friendly books, manuals, tip cards, and toolkits that describe the symptoms, treatment, and recovery of individuals with brain injury. The company also develops and presents on-site, specific, in-depth programs on traumatic brain injury and concussion in children and adults.

• Medline Plus
  www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/traumaticbraininjury.html
  www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/caregivers.html

  Medline Plus is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. The Medline Plus website provides authoritative information about brain injury and caregiving produced and compiled by U.S. government agencies and health-related organizations. The site also provides easy access to medical journal articles and has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and the latest health news.

• The National Brain Injury Association
  www.biausa.org

  Founded in 1980, the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) is the leading national organization serving and representing individuals, families and professionals who are touched by a life-altering, often devastating, traumatic brain injury (TBI).

• The National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury
  www.neuro.pmr.vcu.edu

  The mission of the National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury (NRCTBI) is to provide relevant, practical information for professionals, persons with brain injury, and family members. With more than two decades of experience investigating the special needs and problems of people with brain injury and their families, NRCTBI offers a wide variety of helpful materials for survivors and caregivers through their website and catalog.

• Saul Raisin
  www.saulraisin.org

  On April 4, 2006, at the age of 23, Saul crashed in a professional bicycle race. He fell into a coma, sustaining substantial bodily damage and a traumatic brain injury. His outlook was bleak. Medical professionals did not know if he would survive, and if he did, what kind of life he would lead.

• Raisin' Hope Foundation
  www.raisinhope.org

  When Saul Raisin awoke from his coma, he told his friends and family that if ever lived a normal life again, he would devote himself to helping others get through what he did. Thus began the Raisin Hope Foundation. This site is dedicated to helping others who, like Saul, are recovering from TBI or, like Saul's parents, are helping someone else recover.

• Retreat & Refresh Stroke Camp
  www.strokecamp.com

  Retreat & Refresh Stroke Camp has resources that offer a better understanding of stroke, helping survivors move forward and begin anew.