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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Roundtable: June 10, 2010

Very young children and older adolescents have the highest rate of TBI-related emergency department visits of any age group. The Commission on Children, the state Department of Social Services, the Connecticut Family Support Council, and the Connecticut Fatherhood Initiative held a roundtable discussion of ways everyone - families, educators, health-care providers, and community leaders - can identify and prevent TBI.

Event video, courtesy of CT-N

(Length: 2 hours, 45 minutes):

Event documents (PDF):

• Event summary (2 pages)
• Agenda
• Joshua B. Cantor PowerPoint presentation
• Commission on Children fact sheet
• Department of Public Health fact sheet
• Flyer

Event photos

Connecticut Resources

Commission on Children

• Traumatic Brain Injury in Children: Connecticut’s Silent Epidemic. This pager gives a brief overview of the prevalence of TBI, identifies the strategic issues considered at the June 10, 2010 forum outlined above, and proposes some next steps for state action.
• TBI fact sheet

State Department of Social Services (DSS)

Through its Connecticut Traumatic Brain Injury Implementation Project, DSS has secured a three-year federal grant for--among other things--creating a system of programs and services for TBI sufferers

• TBI Implementation Project home page
• The Statewide TBI Action Plan, which the Project prepared as part of its application for the grant (PDF, 87 pages)
• Home page of the TBI Advisory Committee

State Department of Public Health (DPH)

DPH's Injury Prevention Program has compiled a wealth of statistics on the incidence of TBI in the state. Among its documents:

• Traumatic Brain Injury Deaths, Hospitalizations, and Emergency Department Visits for Connecticut Residents, 2005-2007 (PDF)  
• Traumatic Brain Injury Surveillance in Connecticut, 2000-2004 (PDF)  
• Injury Prevention Program data - Scroll about halfway down the page for TBI data from 2000-2004.  
• Connecticut Injury Prevention and Control Plan, 2008-2012 - More text, charts, and tables on TBI in Connecticut, starting on Page 83 (PDF, 109 pages)

State Department of Education (SDE)

SDE's Bureau of Special Education offers resources for identifying and addressing special learning needs, including:

• A Parent's Guide to Special Education in Connecticut (PDF 44 pages)  
• Guía para padres sobre la Educación Especial en Connecticut (PDF 44 pages)  
• More special education resources

Connecticut Family Support Council

The Council is a legislatively established partnership of parents and professionals working to improve supports for families of children with disabilities.

• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in Children with Disabilities and Children with Special Health Care Needs (Brochure in PDF format)
• Lesión Cerebral Traumática (TBI por sus siglas en inglés) en los Niños con Discapacidad y Niños con Necesidades Especiales de Salud (TBI brochure in Spanish)

Connecticut Children's Trust Fund

The Trust Fund's mission includes prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome, which can lead to brain injury in children. It is also mandated to prevent child abuse, another documented causal factor in TBI's. See the Publications page of its website

Advocacy Groups

The Brain Injury Association of Connecticut (BIAC)

Connecticut Concussion Task Force

Connecticut Family Support Council

National Resources

Congressional Brain Injury Task Force

Co-chaired by Congressmen Todd Platts of Pennsylvania and Bill Pascrell of New Jersey, who hosts the task force home page.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• The latest TBI information and free "Heads Up" educational resources  
• Fact sheets:  
  • Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations and Deaths 2002-2006 - a recently updated report.  
  • Get the Facts about Concussion and Brain Injury - brochure and fact sheet.  
  • The Brain: The Final Frontier of Science  
  • CDC and NCAA concussion educational - materials for colleges and universities, including fact sheets for coaches and student-athletes, as well posters for all NCAA sports.

Advocacy Groups, Academia

Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA)

• Winter 2008 issue of the BIAA newsletter, dedicated to children and adolescents (PDF)

Traumatic Brain Injury Central, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

This page was last updated: Wednesday, October 13, 2010

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