Brain Injury Association of Maryland (BIAM)

The Brain Injury Association of Maryland's mission is to create a better future through brain injury prevention, research, education and advocacy.

Description:
Our Resource Coordinators provide critical information, referrals and support to individuals with brain injuries, families, caregivers and professionals. We maintain a lending library and publish guides such as The Maryland Directory of Brain Injury Resources, The Brain Injury Guidebook, and LINKS, BIAM’s electronic newsletter. During the month of March, we begin our annual campaign for March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month with events and activities strengthened by our statewide media efforts for greater brain injury awareness. Our prevention programs include our 13th annual Eat a Peach Challenge Bike Ride, promoting bike safety and helmet use for adults and children. The Scarecrow Classic 5K Run and 1 Mile Walk/Run is a huge success for four years now as our premier Annual Brain Injury Awareness Event. The BIAM educational programs include our Annual Conference as well as seminars and training programs for healthcare educators, professionals, human service workers, and the general public. Other efforts include advocacy on local, state and federal levels through our Legislative Committee and Outreach Councils.

History:
For twenty-six years, the Brain Injury Association of Maryland has been and continues to be the source in our state on information for the prevention, awareness, and resources of this often undetected, silent epidemic. We are a private, non-profit state affiliate of the Brain Injury Association of America. In 1983, we were initiated as a grass roots organization by family members of persons with brain injury concerned by the lack of brain injury services in Maryland.

Today, our membership includes individuals with brain injury, family members, and disability and health care organizations, as well as professionals working in the brain injury and disability fields. Brain injury, an under-funded public health problem, is often misunderstood and or misdiagnosed.

We take action by providing support and services through a wide variety of projects and programs from Neuro-Resource coordination to prevention, education, and public awareness.

Contact person: Alicia Cignatta, Outreach Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (410) 448-3541

Address:

2200 Kernan Drive Baltimore, MD 21207 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.biamd.org

Miscellaneous Information

Governmental Agency?
	No

Last updated on November 3, 2009