The
13th Annual Eat A Peach Challenge Bike Ride
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Over 495 riders
participated in 2008 - sign up early!
The
13th Annual Eat a Peach Challenge will be held on
Saturday, August 8, 2009.
This brain
injury prevention event is held in conjunction with the Carroll
County Peach Festival.
There are many wonderful crafts, delicious foods and fun activities
for the whole family.
Registration materials will be mailed in June and available
as a .pdf file here. You can also
go to www.charmcityrun.org
to register.
Directions to the Carroll County Agricultural Center -
start/finish of the ride - can be downloaded here as a .pdf.
3rd Annual Scarecrow
Classic
Brain Injury Awareness Event
The
3rd Annual
Scarecrow Classic 5K Run/Walk and 1 Mile Walk was held
Sunday,
October 26, 2008,
at Meadowbrook
Park in Ellicott City, MD. 345
walkers and runners and 75
volunteers came out to support
BIAM - thank you!
Thank you to
PHH Arval for being a Presenting Sponsor AGAIN and to
Head Injury Rehabilitation
and Referral Services
(HIRRS) for sponsoring the water stop!
2009 -
The 4th annual
Scarecrow Classic Brain Injury Awareness Event
will be held on Sunday, October 25, 2009 at Meadowbrook Park
in Ellicott City, MD.
Mark your calendars
and join us for a great event!
BIAM Annual
Conference
Gateway to Hope and Healing
April 16 - 17, 2009
The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute
Linthicum Heights, MD
The
registration
brochure for the conference is now available
here as a .pdf
file. A limited number of scholarships are
available to individuals with brain injury and their
family members. You can download .pdf of the scholarship form
here.
Thank you to our
sponsors to date!
Sponsorship
opportunities for the conference are available. For
information about
sponsorship levels and
benefits, please click
here for a .pdf
file.
A .pdf document with
short biographies of conference speakers is available
here - learn
more about their qualifications and interests!
A Silent Auction will be
held in conjunction with the conference. Click
here for a list of
items available for bid!
The Partnership for
Independence Awards are presented at the conference to 1) an
individual with a brain
injury, 2) a family/friend, and 3) an
advocate. This is a
great opportunity to recognize someone who has
made a difference and a contribution to the brain injury community!
A .pdf of the nomination form is
available here.
Directions to
The Conference
Center at the Maritime Institute are available here.
Brain Injury Association of Maryland
Legislative Network and Action Center
2009
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.
A
copy of the March 2009
Legislative Alert
is available as a .pdf; it has information about the
motorcycle helmet repeal in Maryland, as well as
Brain Injury Awareness Day on Capitol Hill.
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.
 Maryland Traumatic Brain Injury
Advisory Board Annual Report to the Governor
The
2008 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.
 Education
Module for Teachers
Through the TBI
Demonstration Project that the Brain Injury Association of Maryland oversaw, a
traumatic Brain
Injury
Education Module was created
by Educators for Educators.
It is possible to access this module by following this link: www.tbitac.org/site/product67.cfm.
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