Brain Injury Awareness Month
The Brain Injury Association of America leads the nation in observing Brain Injury Awareness Month in March each year.
Every March, the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) leads the nation in observing Brain Injury Awareness Month. This year, we have exciting new developments for the brain injury community, including new advocacy initiatives, events, fundraising opportunities, and more.
Share Your Story
During Brain Injury Awareness Month, we encourage you to share your story to show others that they are not alone. Scroll through some featured stories above, and then submit one of your own.
Beyond sharing your story on our website, we encourage you to share your story through other channels. Download our toolkit below to see our tips and resources for you to maximize your impact, in addition to all the ways you can get involved in raising awareness.
Raise Awareness
This Brain Injury Awareness Month, be a voice for those affected by brain injuries by fundraising for BIAA. We’ve made it easy for you to create a fundraising page where you can share your personal connection to brain injury and raise funds for this important cause. Your efforts—every conversation, every dollar raised—help provide help, hope, and healing to survivors and their families. 
Plus, we have exciting items available for anyone who reaches $100, $250, or $500 with their fundraiser.
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Together, we are building a future of understanding, inclusion, and dignity for all. Click here to become a voice for brain injury today.
How You Can Get Involved
If you want to get involved, you can:
- Share Your Story and Spread the Word: Everyone with a brain injury has a story to tell, and we’d love to share yours. You can use our premade social media templates to create a post, sample language about the campaign to write a letter or a blog, printable signs to hang up or use, and more. We encourage all brain injury survivors to submit their personal stories to BIAA here for an opportunity to be featured on our My Brain Injury Journey stories page.
- Raise Awareness by Supporting Our Mission: Be a voice for brain injury this March by talking to friends and family about the importance of brain injury awareness and asking them to support the mission of the Brain Injury Association of America. Become a Voice for Brain Injury today!
- Become an Advocate: There are many ways you can get involved, from introducing a resolution or proclamation in your hometown to joining hundreds of other advocates on Capitol Hill. Join one of our upcoming webinars to learn how you can get involved and support BIAA’s advocacy agenda. See our calendar of events to learn more.
- Join our Community: Never miss out on the latest brain injury news, events, and resources from BIAA by signing up to join our community! When you sign up, you will receive our monthly newsletter, key updates for Brain Injury Awareness Month, and more. Sign up today.
Become an Advocate
Advocacy is central to BIAA’s mission and a key part of Brain Injury Awareness Month. The brain injury community has so much power when it comes to advocating for the causes that affect them. This year, we have two main causes we will be advocating for.
Calendar of Events
BIAA has many events coming up in February and March to help you get involved during Brain Injury Awareness Month.
- BIAA National Events
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March 16, 2026, Sharing Your Story Webinar: Join the Brain Injury Association of America for a webinar on how to share your brain injury journey effectively during Brain Injury Awareness Month and beyond. Whether you’re a survivor, caregiver, family member, or advocate, your story has the power to inspire hope, raise awareness, and drive meaningful change for the 64 million Americans who have experienced a traumatic brain injury. This session will guide you through BIAA’s My Brain Injury Journey campaign resources, showing you how to transform your personal experience into a powerful tool to advocate for change. Register here.
Past events:
Redefining Recovery: Addressing TBI as a Chronic Condition: In this webinar, co-hosted by the Brain Injury Association of America and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Dr. Kristen Dams-O’Connor presented the latest science, discussed evidence-based strategies to improve the care of people living with chronic TBI symptoms, and addressed information and service gaps. Whether you are a healthcare professional, policymaker, advocate, caregiver, or person living with brain injury, this webinar will deepen your understanding of TBI across the lifespan and highlight actionable steps to improve outcomes and quality of life for millions of Americans affected by brain injury. Watch the recording here.Brain Injury Awareness Month Kickoff: Join us to meet your BIAA staff and learn more about fundraising! Whether you’re signed up already or are considering it, we’ll cover everything you need to know and answer your questions as we kick off Brain Injury Awareness Month fundraising. Watch the recording here.
- BIAA State Affiliate and Chapter Events
- Colorado
Care Across the Ages is designed for professionals working with survivors of a brain injury, with keynote and breakout sessions focused on youth, adults, and seniors living with brain injury. Six CE available and breakfast, lunch, and networking happy hour are included. Registration is open. Click here to register.Nebraska
Join the Brain Injury Association of Nebraska (BIA-NE) for the 2026 Nebraska Brain Injury Conference, where we bring together individuals with brain injuries, their families, healthcare providers, and professionals to share best practices, foster connections, and inspire hope. This year’s theme, “Navigating Change: Adapting and Advancing Together”, reflects the evolving landscape of brain injury care, technology, and lived experience. Learn more about the conference here.Join BIA-NE on March 17 as Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen proclaims March to be Brain Injury Awareness Month in the state. Learn more about the Brain Injury Awareness Month Proclamation Day event here.
This March, in honor of Brain Injury Awareness Month, Safe States is concentrating its training sessions on the important intersection between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and last month’s topic of intimate partner violence (IPV). The recorded webinar showcases the early signs and symptoms of brain injury and highlights the crucial role screening plays in improved health outcomes. BIA-NE’s Executive Director, Peggy Reisher, is a featured speaker on the webinar. Watch the recording here.
North Carolina
Throughout March, the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina (BIA-NC) celebrates Brain Injury Awareness Month by spreading awareness across the state through a variety of events, programs, and community initiatives. From educational workshops to survivor-centered gatherings, each event is designed to inform, connect, and inspire. Explore BIA-NC’s full Brain Injury Awareness Month calendar here.South Carolina
Three events, one mission: to create a better future through brain injury prevention, research, education, and advocacy. There’s no better time to rally for brain injury survivors and their families! This year, we’re celebrating statewide with events in three locations, including Charleston, Columbia, and Upstate, SC! Each event will feature a group Walk, Run & Roll followed by a reception including food, music, kids’ activities, and fun! Sign up to participate and/or donate to the event nearest you.Charleston Columbia Upstate
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Brain Injury Awareness in the News and Media Inquiries
There are at least 64 million adults in the United States who report having sustained a traumatic brain injury in their lifetimes. Brain Injury Awareness Month rallies this extensive community to raise awareness and advocate for causes they care about.
All recent BIAA news and press releases can be viewed on our media page.
For all media inquiries, please contact Steve Walsh, Senior Director of Marketing and Communications, at swalsh@biausa.org or (703) 761-0750 ext. 643.
The BIAA website has lots of information on the various types of brain injuries, their effects, and more. If you have any questions about brain injury or are looking for resources, please reach out to the National Brain Injury Information Center by calling 1-800-444-6443.