This month, March 2018, Americans recognize Brain Injury Awareness Month. The theme for this year, through 2020, is Change Your Mind. The significance of this theme is to show the ongoing public awareness campaign to provide, “a platform for educating the general public about the incidence of brain injury and the needs of people with brain injuries and their families.” Many posters and webpages note the statistics, commonality and horror of brain injury in the United States. Yes, as the Brain Injury Association of America notes, “Brain injury changes the way you think, act, move and feel.” However, in some ways, for the better. In this sense, part of what the BIAA is seeking to do is de-stigmatization. (The theme for 2015 to 2017, #NotAlone, is still very apropos.) Search on Twitter or use the hangtags #ChangeYourMind, #BrainInjuryAwarenessMonth or simply #braininjury.
Note: From what I can find, Brain Injury Awareness Month is not a federally designated month. However, “the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Brain Injury Association of America recognize March as Brain Injury Awareness month to increase awareness of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).” Additionally, the month has been legally designated by many states. New Jersey, for example, signed into law Section 36:2-87, to mark March as Brain Injury Awareness Month, in 2013.
