{"id":4611,"date":"2021-03-02T13:20:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T18:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:31:19","slug":"its-brain-injury-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/its-brain-injury-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Brain Injury Awareness Month!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! We&#8217;d like to start by sharing these stats with you, but our main goal this month is to tell the stories of adults with brain injuries, we&#8217;ll share how people are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/morethantheirbraininjury\/\">#morethantheirbraininjury<\/a>.<br>5.3 million Americans have a disability due to a brain injury\u2014that\u2019s 2% of the population and likely includes someone you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to get in on the movement to raise awareness you can check out the resources of the #MoreThanMyBrainInjury movement below. If you&#8217;d like help creating posts to share please<a href=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> let us know<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-brain-injury-association-of-america wp-block-embed-brain-injury-association-of-america\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"59o36QPpDp\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biausa.org\/public-affairs\/public-awareness\/brain-injury-awareness\">Brain Injury Awareness<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Brain Injury Awareness&#8221; &#8212; Brain Injury Association of America\" src=\"https:\/\/biausa.org\/public-affairs\/public-awareness\/brain-injury-awareness\/embed#?secret=4EpOFzajlP#?secret=59o36QPpDp\" data-secret=\"59o36QPpDp\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Brain Injury Awareness campaign resources by the Brain Injury Association of America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brain-Injury-Facts-and-Stats-pg-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"943\" height=\"584\" data-id=\"4612\" src=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brain-Injury-Facts-and-Stats-pg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brain-Injury-Facts-and-Stats-pg-1.jpg 943w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brain-Injury-Facts-and-Stats-pg-1-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Brain-Injury-Facts-and-Stats-pg-1-768x476.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 943px) 100vw, 943px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Typical-Causes-of-Brain-Injury-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Typical-Causes-of-Brain-Injury-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Typical-Causes-of-Brain-Injury-1.jpg 793w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Typical-Causes-of-Brain-Injury-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Typical-Causes-of-Brain-Injury-1-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Leading-Causes-of-TBI-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"790\" src=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Leading-Causes-of-TBI-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Leading-Causes-of-TBI-1.jpg 692w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Leading-Causes-of-TBI-1-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>braininjury #braininjuryawareness #recovery #tbi #tbirecovery #regainingindependance #disabilitysupport #supportservices #humanservices #braininjuryawarenessmonth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! We&#8217;d like to start by sharing these stats with you, but our main goal this month is to tell the stories of adults with brain injuries, we&#8217;ll share how people are&nbsp;#morethantheirbraininjury.5.3 million Americans have a disability due to a brain injury\u2014that\u2019s 2% of the population and likely includes someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6864,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions\/6864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}