March 2014 is Brain Injury Awareness Month, Help Us Spread the Word!

Looking to pitch in and help advocate for Brain Injury Awareness month? Your help is needed! Each year, 2.4 million Americans sustain a brain injury. As the Brain Injury Association puts it, "A brain injury can happen anytime, anywhere, to anyone - a brain injury does not discriminate."

If you're interested in helping but don't know how, visit the BIA's website here to read more about how you can do your part to spread awareness in your community. Through increased awareness, we can all learn about how to prevent brain injuries and how to help those around us recovering from them. 

36,000 Papers Cranes for Brain Injury Awareness

Above photo courtesy of the Hasting's Museum's Facebook Page

In honor of Brain Injury Awareness month, the Diorama Hall at the Hastings Museum in Nebraska has been adorned with 36,000 handcrafted paper cranes. As the president of the Brain Injury Association of Nebraska, Jacquie Cox, says, “Our goal was to get 36,000 because that would be one for each person in Nebraska living with a disability from a brain injury.” To see more of the brightly colored cranes and to help spread awareness, check out the Hastings Museum’s Facebook page! Also, you can read about this initiative here in Shay Burk’s Hastings Tribune article, “Paper cranes draw attention to brain injuries.”

For info about those affected by brain injury in your state, check out the Brain Injury Association of America's website: http://www.biausa.org