The 14th on the 14th!
The 14th Annual Eat A Peach
Challenge Bike Ride
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Thank
you to all the cyclists, volunteers, and sponsors who
supported this year's ride! The
weather was great and the day went really well!
Thanks to the following
rest stop sponsors!
*
Adventist
Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland
* Head Injury
Rehabilitation and Referral Services
* Kennedy Krieger
Institute
* National Rehabilitation
Hospital
* Sinai
Rehabilitation Center
*
University of Maryland Medical Center and
University Specialty
Hospital
Thanks to the following
sponsors:
General sponsor
Kids' Fun Station sponsor
Technical support
In-kind support
Ride support along the
routes
General support
In-kind support
Support of the Helmet
Give-Away
In-kind support
In-kind support
5th Annual Scarecrow Classic
The
5th Annual Scarecrow Classic 5K Run and 1 Mile Walk will be held
Sunday, October 24, 2010, at Meadowbrook Park
in Ellicott City, MD.
Directions to the park are available
here.
Registration is now open. You may register
online through
Charm City Run, or you can download a
.pdf
of the registration
form here and mail it to the BIAM office. Please do not
mail registrations after October 18!
Registration and fees
$25 until October 18, 2010
$30 from October 19 - 23, 2010
$35 Race Day - Register in person from 7:00 am - 8:30 am
BIAM Annual
Education Conference
The Crowne Plaza Baltimore
Timonium, MD
April 14 - 15, 2011
The
Call for
Presentations is now available for the 2011 BIAM Annual
Conference. You can complete the
form online
here.
The BIAM Annual Conference is on the move! The 2011 conference
will be held at
The
Crowne Plaza Baltimore in Timonium, MD. The facility has
great
space for general sessions, breakouts, and vendors!
BIAM
2009 Annual Report and Annual Appeal
A
.pdf file with the
BIAM 2009 Annual Report is
available here. This report provides an overview of activities
during Fiscal Year 2009, as well as goals
for Fiscal Year 2010. Please help BIAM
continue to provide services in Maryland by making a donation to
BIAM!
 Brain Injury Association of
Maryland
Legislative Network and Action Center
2010
BIAM Legislative Network
The Brain Injury
Association of Maryland is working to build an active legislative
network. Our goals are to educate state and federal lawmakers
about
brain injury and the public policy issues related to brain injury,
and to encourage them to allocate funding and maintain public policy
that is favorable to
the brain injury community. Members of the legislative network
will receive periodic emails informing them on policy issues,
Action Alerts, and BIAM's
electronic newsletter, LINKS.
TO JOIN our Legislative Network, please send an email to
info@biamd.org and ask to be
added to the list.
Members of the Legislative Network are encouraged to review the
manual
So You Wanna
be an Advocate.
How to Find Your Legislators
The National Brain Injury Association maintains a terrific
online advocacy resource called the
Legislative Action
Center
where you can enter your
zip code, find out about your state representatives and contact them
regarding issues that are of great importance to you and the future
of the brain injury community. If you need more assistance
with locating your state or federal representatives, please call the
BIAM office at
1-800-221-6443.
State of Maryland Traumatic Brain Injury
Advisory Board
In recognition of the needs for individuals with traumatic brain
injury, the Maryland General Assembly created the
Maryland Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Advisory Board to represent individuals with brain injury.
Applications are being accepted for membership on the
TBI Advisory Board. If you would like
to be considered for appointment to the TBI
Advisory Board, please complete the attached
application
and return to the address given on the form.
 2009 Maryland
Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board Annual Report to the Governor
The
2009
Maryland Traumatic Brain Injury Legislative Report
is completed and has been sent to Governor O'Malley for review and
comments.
You can get a copy of the report
here
as a .pdf. After
you read the Report,
contact your state
legislators and tell them how brain injury has affected
your life, the need for greater brain
injury awareness
and funding for services and that
you want your representative to
react to the recommendations
listed in the Report.
 Brain
Injury Fact Sheet
Now available online, the
Brain Injury of Maryland Fact Sheet.
The first page of this document provides
statistics for Traumatic Brain Injury rates in Maryland
based
on
2000 Maryland Centers
for Disease Control Surveillance
Data
from the Office of Injury Prevention,
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
This is the most recent data available
as of March 2003. The second page provides
national statistics for TBI.
You will need Acrobat Reader to see these documents.
Brain Injury
Association of Maryland, Inc.
2200 Kernan Drive
Baltimore, Maryland 21207
Help Line: (410) 448-2924
Fax Line: (410) 448-3541
Toll Free (in Maryland only): 1- 800-221-6443
Email Us: info@biamd.org
The
Brain Injury Association of Maryland is a 501(c)3 non-profit
organization. 
Directions
to the Brain Injury Association of Maryland office.
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