BIAM Annual
Conference: Gateway to Hope and Healing
April 16 - 17, 2009
The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute
Linthicum Heights, MD
The
Call for Papers is now available
as a .pdf file or as a
Word document to submit proposals for
presentations.
The conference
will
include keynote speakers and breakout sessions covering a wide
variety
of topics related to brain injury.
This Call for
Papers is an invitation to individuals
with brain injury, family
members, and professionals to
share their knowledge, experience and ideas. As in the past, CEU
approval
will be requested for various
disciplines.
Sponsorship
opportunities for the conference are available. For
information about sponsorship levels and
benefits, please click
here for a .pdf
file.
3rd Annual Scarecrow
Classic
The Third Annual
Scarecrow Classic 5K Run/Walk and 1 Mile Walk will be held Sunday,
October 26, 2008,
at Meadowbrook Park in Ellicott City, MD. Get a team together
and join the fun! You may register online
through www.charmcityrun.com,
or you may download a .pdf of the registration brochure
here.
The
12th Annual Eat A Peach Challenge Bike Ride
Saturday, August 9, 2008
The 12th Annual Eat A
Peach was a huge success, drawing a record 495 participants, plus
over 100
volunteers! Thank you to everyone who took part in this year's
Eat A Peach!
Thank you to our sponsors to-date; for a
complete list, please click here.
Maryland
Traumatic Brain Injury Legislative Report
BIAM
has mailed the Maryland Traumatic Brain Injury
Legislative Report to all the
Senators and Delegates in
Maryland. You can get a copy of the report by following
this link to the Maryland
Department of Disabilities website. After you read the Report,
call your local legislators and tell them
how brain injury has affect your life, the need
for awareness, support and services and
that you want your representative to react
to the recommendations listed in the Report.
Maryland
State Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Board
In
recognition of the needs for individuals with traumatic brain
injury, the Maryland
General Assembly created the State Traumatic Brain Injury 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.
Legislative
Action Center
National Association of
Social Workers - Maryland Chapter (NASW-MD) has created
an excellent
virtual Legislative
Action Center. You can respond to current legislative
issues, find and email your elected officials, learn more about
bills being heard about
and voted on in Annapolis, etc. Let
your voice be heard!
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
Through the TBI
Demonstration Project that the Brain Injury Association of Maryland
has been overseeing, a TBI Education Module has been created.
It is possible to
access this module by following this link: www.tbitac.org/site/product67.cfm.
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