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8th Annual Walk for Thought - To Honor, Celebrate Minnesota Veterans
The 8th Annual Walk for Thought has been scheduled for Saturday, September 26, 2009 at Como Park in St. Paul, Canal Park in Duluth and Silver Lake in Rochester. Online registration is now available. Find out more!

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2009 Consumer and Family Conference
Join us on Saturday, August 29, 2009from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the Consumer and Family Conference at the Maplewood Community Center in Maplewood, Minnesota. This year, the Consumer and Family Conference has secured speakers to address the needs of the "whole person" through new research and holistic integration therapies, resources, tools and strategies. We invite you to come and rediscover the whole you. Click here for more information.

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Statewide Needs and Resources Assessment
Do you have ideas on improving brain injury services and supports in Minnesota? Do you believe your elected officials are fulfilling their obligations to the health care community? Would you like a place to air your views with the full confidence that they will be listened to and considered. Click here for more information.

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Mind Matters
In the Summer edition of Mind Matters, read about an individual who is recovering from a brain injury, the middle years of the Association, an update on the 2009 Legislation Session, the 2008 Annual Report and more. Click here to read Mind Matters.

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I Got Caught!
The Brain Injury Association of Minnesota is pleased to be partnering with KSTP Channel 5 Eyewitness News and KSTC-TV, Channel 45 on a public awareness/call-to-action campaign related to educating parents and children on the importance of wearing a properly fitted helmet. The program uses actual law enforcement officials to reward Minnesotans age 2 to 13 for practicing proper safety habits through proper helmet use. Click here to for more information.

Become a Helmet Safety Volunteer by attending a June 25 training. Click here for more information.

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Midwest Advocacy Project
Becoming a successful advocate is an important way to improve services for individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), their family members, and significant others. The Brain Injury Association of Minnesota is partnering with the Mayo Clinic TBI Model System in a research study to identify how to best teach advocacy to people touched by TBI to improve their health and that of their communities. This groundbreaking study is expected to advance the science of TBI research. Click here for more information.

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Sports Concussion
Sports and recreation related injuries account for 20 percent of all brain injuries. There are an estimated 300,000 sports-related brain injuries per year, including 250,000 in football alone. However, because sports-related concussions tend to be underreported, the number may, in fact, be much higher.

Parents and coaches are an athlete's first line of defense against sports-related concussion. Proper safety equipment should be properly worn at all times during practice and games. They should also keep watch for the signs of concussion should an accident occur on the field. Concussions are not caused solely by impact. Whiplash caused by a player falling on the field can also lead to a concussion. Click here for more information.

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Public Policy
The vision of the Brain Injury Association of Minnesota is that of an active grassroots community of people working toward solutions to the complex problems associated with brain injury. The Public Policy Department conducts direct lobbying activities at the Capitol as well as grassroots activity that builds the capacity of people to take action to help meet the need of all Minnesotans affected by brain injury. Join our community of advocates today by visiting our Advocacy Action Center.

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Looking for Books on Brain Injury?
Lash and Associates Publishing/Training Inc. specializes in information and books for the rehabilitation and treatment of brain injury, blast injury, PTSD, and concussion.  There are also books and manuals on adults and children with special needs and disabilities and more. Click here to go the Lash and Associates Web site for more information.

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Peer/Mentor Support Connection
The Peer/Mentor Support Connection program is managed by the Brain Injury Association of Minnesota as a way to connect people who have recently sustained brain injury with those who have already been through the experience themselves.  Specifically, the Peer/Mentor Support connection matches trained volunteers (Mentors) with individuals with brain injury or their family members (Peers).  To expand the capacity of our Resource Facilitation service and fulfill an expressed need from the brain injury community, the Peer/Mentor Support Connection will match trained volunteers with individuals living with brain injury or their family members.