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There is so much to celebrate in life – from weddings, birthdays, and graduations to things like the completion of treatment, survivorship, or getting a clean bill of health. These moments are also opportunities to raise money and awareness for the Brain Injury Association of America within your personal and professional networks. Every dollar raised supports BIAA’s mission to improve the lives of individuals who survive life-changing brain injuries and to support their families and care providers.

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Using our state-of-the-art online fundraising tool, you can create your own webpage that makes it possible for friends and colleagues all over the globe to support your fundraising efforts – with the funds coming directly to BIAA! You don’t have to worry about taking a collection, keeping track of cash, or sending a receipt – we do that work for you! Here’s how to get started:

Click here to create your own fundraising page
Tap “Become a Fundraiser”
Enter your name and contact information
Set your own dollar goal, upload a photo of your choice, and add your story in your own words.
Email your network with your story and personal fundraising link

What else is great about using our online fundraising tool?

We can make sure donors are thanked upon receipt of their gift, providing gift acknowledgments for tax purposes and information about how the funds are being used
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100% of funds raised on our platform can be used immediately for brain injury education, treatment, and research rather than having to wait to receive funds from a third party

As a survivor, Dylan believes he's in the "ideal position to spread awareness and raise money to help individuals struggling with brain injury."

"So September 17, 2017, was a day that I will never forget. They shot Michael in the left side of his head."

Before reaching out to her local brain injury association and finding an ABI support group, Melissa had nowhere to turn for advice.

“Suddenly memories from the day before seemed like they were decades ago,” says Melissa Shuman, who has come to live with the reality of brain injury after her son, Justin, sustained an acquired brain injury (ABI) following an attempt at suicide.

Recollecting on the first few days of her son’s fight to live, Melissa made it clear she felt like she was fighting just as hard.

“I had been rushing to find out all of this information on my own while he was in a coma. It was exhausting, but who else was going to do it? That’s a mother’s job.” In addition to learning information, Melissa became Justin’s primary caretaker. She spent her days coordinating nursing, therapies, feeding, bathing, and everything else in the living room of their home. “I think I scared myself more than anything, and the doctors didn’t have too much hope, so after a while I had to stop and just believe he would get better, and advocate for what would be best for him.”

In the first several months following Justin’s injury, the Shuman family experienced a great deal of change. They did have health insurance, but had difficulty getting many of the services Justin needed covered without a battle. Like so many others in similar positions, Melissa became an expert in fighting with her insurance company and with the agencies providing services to her son. Justin was not a candidate for inpatient rehabilitation because his medical needs required he be sent to Long-term Acute Care (LTAC), which is essentially a step-down from a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit. Instead, Melissa demanded Justin come home, and spent weeks preparing and retrofitting the living room of their home to ensure his ability to live there.

“Bringing Justin home was not an easy quest, and I had no idea where to seek insight on what, how, and when to make the transition,” Melissa explained.

Melissa is enormously appreciative of the online brain injury support group to which she belongs. “It’s an A-B-I group,” she laughs, “Not TBI! TBIs are welcome, but we make sure everyone else is, too. That’s been good for me, to know I’m not alone, and Justin wasn’t alone, and even that my other children are not alone and that someone can relate to what we are going through. A lot of people, actually, relate to what we go through.”

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Jane and her husband, Tim, both sustained brain injuries at different points in their lives. They live with the residual effects every day.

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