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Life After Brain Injury: A Seminar for Survivors and Families
The Brain Injury Association of Kansas and Greater Kansas City is offering this seminar at two locations and times this fall. These seminars offer opportunities to meet others facing the same challenges, to talk with area service providers and to learn more about brain injury. For more information, including program brochures, please visit
http://biaks.org/kansas-brain-injury-events.htm
Date: September 18, 2010
LaQuinta Inn & Suites
Wichita, Kansas
Date: October 2, 2010
Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites
Overland Park, Kansas
A New FREE CDC Online Training Helps Prepare Coaches and Parents in Less than 30 Minutes
Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports is a free online training available to coaches, parents, and others helping to keep athletes safe from concussion. The training was developed by CDC’s Injury Center in partnership and other leading organizations. It features interviews with leading experts and interactive exercises to help coaches and parents recognize a concussion and know how to respond if their athlete might have a concussion.
Protect the Ones You Love
Parents can play a life-saving role in protecting children from injuries. In an effort to raise parents’ awareness
about the leading causes of child injury in the United States and how they can be prevented, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention has launched the “Protect the Ones You Love” initiative. For more information, visit
http://www.cdc.gov/safechild/.
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