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Mission Statement
The voice of brain injury help, hope and
healing.
Vision Statement
A world where all preventable brain injuries
are prevented, all unpreventable brain injuries are minimized,
and all individuals who have experienced brain injury maximize
their quality of life.
We look forward to serving you and hope
you'll visit our membership page so we can get to know you
better.
Awards!
The Brain Injury Association of Arkansas
requests community nominations. Click here
to learn more
The 39th Infantry Brigade
has returned to Arkansas.
 They will have reintegration
meetings beginning in January. We want to support their
reintegration by having representatives at their 30-day and
60-day meetings to pass out information about concussions and
brain injuries. Click here for volunteer
information and schedule!
The Traumatic Brain Injury Services
Resource Manual Draft is Now Online! Please help us fill the gaps.
Please review this
draft
of the TBI Resources
Manual and identify additional services that need to be included. Your help
is needed to identify other service providers in your areas that are not yet
included in this
draft document. Of particular interest for inclusion are local
support groups, both for the individual with TBI and for the Caregiver.
Click here to help.
The Brain Injury
Association of Arkansas is building a
Registry of brain injury survivors.
If you are a survivor or the caregiver for a survivor, please consider
providing the information needed for our Registry. If you do,
we'll provide the survivor with a free membership for a year. This
information will be kept confidential and will not be used for junk mail
purposes. To join the Registry, click on Survivor's Registry.
Providers Resource Directory being developed
The Arkansas Department of Health TBI
Program is working on a directory of providers of services to TBI
survivors and their family. The BIA-AR is help with this
project by providing the assessment tool online as well an the
option of submitting the assessment information online. For a
copy of the assessment tool and/or to submit the information
online click on
Provider Assessment Tool
A draft copy of the Arkansas TBI Resource Guide
available online soon...
TBI Needs Assessment Survey
The Brain Injury Association of Arkansas is working with numerous
organizations to conduct an assessment of needs and services to
individuals with a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Results of the survey
will be used to develop a strategic plan for better coordination of
existing services and to assist organizations that serve individuals
with a TBI in their planning. Feedback from brain injury survivors and family members is urgently
needed.
Here are the Survey Forms:
Take the online
Survey or
Print a hard copy version of the Survey (39k pdf)
More about the TBI Needs Assessment Survey -The survey should be completed by individuals with a TBI and their support
systems – friends, family, employers, etc. Please feel free to distribute to
interested persons. All responses to the survey are confidential. No one will be
contacted for follow-up. Please feel free to add any comments that will better
explain needs of individuals with a TBI.
Dr. Mary Aitken, MD, MPH, an associate professor of pediatrics in the College
of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas
Children’s Hospital, is assisting the organizations with the survey. The survey
can be completed online and automatically send to Beverly Miller at
millerbeverlyk@uams.edu or can be printed and
mailed to: Beverly Miller,
Center for Health Promotion,
Dept. of Pediatrics, UAMS,
800 Marshall Street, Slot 512-26,
Little Rock, AR 72202.
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