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The mission of the Brain Injury Association of Iowa is to create a better future through brain injury prevention, advocacy, education, research, and support.

To contact the Brain Injury Association of Iowa:
Call 1-800-444-6443 or Email info@biaia.org

Currently, more than 3.1 million children and adults in the U.S. live with a lifelong disability as a result of TBI and 6.4 million have a disability due to stroke. (Statistics courtsey of the Centers for Disease Control and the Heart Disease & Stroke Statistics 2010 Update At-A-Glance.). This translates into more than 95,000 Iowans living with disability from acquired brain injury. That is more than the populations of Sioux City, Waterloo, Council Bluffs, Ames or Iowa City.

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20th Annual Conference
Navigating Brain Injury: Best Practices for a Complex Landscape

Join professionals from around the Midwest for the 20th annual "Best Practices in Brain Injury Service Delivery" Providers Conference. March 8 & 9, 2012 Sheraton West Des Moines

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Pre-Conference for Families and Caregivers

March 7, 2012 Sheraton West Des Moines

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For conference information: email conferences@biaia.org

Advocacy Day

Join the Brain Injury Association of Iowa at the Iowa State Capital to Advocate for Brain Injury on February 28th, 10am-3pm . Check back for more information.

Joggin' For Your Noggin - 3rd Annual Run, Walk, and Roll: 5k and Fun Run

Lower City Park, Iowa City - March 31, 2012
Last year's Brain Injury Association of Iowa's Run, Walk, & Roll 5k and Fun Run was a success! Thank you to all of our runners, walkers, and teams! The "Run, Walk, & Roll" is an annual fundraiser to benefit the Iowa citizen's who have been affected by brain injury. This year we want to build off of last years success, and exceed 1000 runners and raise over $20,000. Hope to see you there!
Registration opens at 8am
5k begins at 9am
Fun Run begins at 10am

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Hope for a Helmet

Hope for a Helmet is an Advocacy Coalition started by students who were all friends of Caroline Found. Caroline was an Iowa City IA high student killed in a moped crash in August of 2011. Caroline, 17, was not wearing a helmet.

Her friends learned that she is but one of hundreds of Iowans who have died or been injured as a result of moped and motorcycle crashes in Iowa. In her honor they are working to "pay it forward", and working to prevent the preventable.

The Brain Injury Association is a proud member of the Hope for a Helmet Advocacy Coalition. To add your voice to help protect Iowa's youth riders from death and disability from brain injury, please register here.

A concussion is a brain injury, period. BIAA believes coaches of every school athletic team and every extracurricular athletic activity should be trained to recognize the signs and symptoms of brain injury, including concussions and second impact syndrome. BIAA also believes young athletes who appear to have sustained a concussion should have written authorization by a health care professional before returning to play.

concussion is caused by a bump, blow or jolt to the head, or from a blow to the body that causes the head to move rapidly back and forth. Most concussions occur without a loss of consciousness and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a lack of proper diagnosis and management of concussion may result in a serious long-term consequences, or risk of coma or death. Signs and symptoms may be noticeable immediately, or it may take days or weeks before they are present. U.S. emergency departments treat approximately 135,000 sports- and recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), including concussions, among children ages 5 to 18.

Athletic directors, educators, trainers, coaches, school nurses…. please see our prevention section for current facts, tools, kits, and information on brain injury in youth sports

2011 Sports and Concussions Fact Sheet

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Looking for resources and supports dealing with brain injury?

Neuro-Resource Facilitation helps people with brain injury and their families find answers to their questions. It is a free service dedicated to helping people choose, get and keep needed services and supports.

For more information call the Brain Injury Association at 1-800-444-6443 or e-mail us at info@biaia.org

Download our Virtual Tote Bag of brain injury information: in Word format

Download our Virtual Concussion Packet: in Word format

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