Orlando Brain Injury Support Group News February 2008 All Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Survivors Family & Friends are Welcome Donations Accepted

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1 Orlando Brain Injury Support Group News February 2008 All Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Survivors Family & Friends are Welcome Donations Accepted The next meeting is Wed 19 March PM Guest Speaker: Dr Patrick Gorman Monthly Meetings 3rd Wednesday Major William Beardall Senior Center 800 S. Delaney Ave. Orlando Our Mission is to Build Brain Injury Awareness through knowledge and partnership. The Main Purpose of the Orlando Brain Injury Support Group is to provide a safe environment where Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivors can give each other support, share their individual needs and establish friendships by meeting others who face similar challenges. We have educational speakers from the community. We share community resource information and plan recreational time. It is important to help build brain injury awareness for 350,000 people that live in Florida with TBI and for the veterans that sustained a TBI in the war. Together we can each build a strong link in the chain of TBI recovery through friendship and support. Survivor's Policy Learn to communicate your needs and to listen effectively Get Involved Participate & Volunteer. Follow through on your commitments. Build a routine around a schedule that works for you. Ground Rules One speaker at a time Respect each other's ideas Give everyone a chance to speak Speak only on the Topic being discussed Time Management 7:00-7:30PM Introduction, Meet New Attendants 7:30-8:30PM Educational Info Sharing or Guest Speaker 8:30-9:00PM Clean Up

2 Reminders: Give Back Orlando Brain Injury Support Group meets Every 1st & 2nd Thursday from 6:30pm -8:30pm at the St. Lukes United Methodist Church located at 4851 S. Apopka Vineland Road Other TBI resources: Business At Hand It is very important that we show our numbers at the next meeting because March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month: 1. Patty Sheehan City Commissioner of the City of Orlando will sign a proclamation for March BI Awareness Month at our March meeting. Plus, I picked up a signed proclamation from Richard Crotty the Major of Orange County. 2. The Work Incentive Program offered to TBI survivors has been postponed again. Please contact Tina at x113 at the Center from Independent Living in Winter Park for more details. 3. Who would like to volunteer to work on a speech to be presented to Middle and Highs Schools about the causes and consequences of Brain Injury? 4. Our elections are in April we need to create BI laws that will specify job descriptions for each position and a contract commitment from each person. There should be two names on the checking account at all times and the chairperson should have access. 5. Plus we need to update memberships to the BIAF. June is the BIAF Jamboree Start saving now! Let me know if you require assistance. 6. Ambassador Jerry Scott and myself attended BISG at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Tampa. There were a couple of soldiers back from the war that sustained mild TBI in road side bombs and a gentleman who fell on his head while doing yard work. We all should do our part to make the adjustment for soldiers coming home a smooth one. 7. We now have a map of counties in area and the support groups that are available. Then we can mark the ones we have visited. 8. I have been participating in the Give Back Orlando Brain Injury Support Group and have submitted a proposal to them for us to join forces. Feedback please. Minutes 20 February 2008 Attendance was 21 Total: 16 TBI survivors, 2 family members, 2 professionals, 1 BIAF. Treasury collected $20.00 Thanks again to Jerry Scott and Longwood Domino's Pizza for the pizzas. We had a really good meeting. Kelly Judkins the family support specialist from the Brain Injury Association of Florida (BIAF) and Shelly Weiss from the Department of Vocational

3 Rehabilitation were there to share information with us. Shelly ( ) let us know that we can apply for services from the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation by going to orientation at 8:45am Tuesday at 3191 Maquire Blvd. We also had Dave Allen from CrossRoads share with us his experience about his son who sustained a TBI and what they do at CrossRoads Center with mapping the brain and re-training the brain. Hope to see you at the next meeting Wed. 19 March 2008 Marie-Terese You are cordially invited to the Orlando Brain Injury Support Group Meeting In Celebration with the City of Orlando's and Orange County's, FL Proclamations that March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month. Wed. 19 March 2008 from 7-9PM At the Mayor William Beardall Senior Center DR Patrick Gorman Guest Speaker February 2008 All Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Survivors Family & Friends are Welcome Donations Accepted The next meeting is Wed 19 March PM Guest Speaker: Dr Patrick Gorman Monthly Meetings 3rd Wednesday Major William Beardall Senior Center 800 S. Delaney Ave. Orlando Our Mission is to Build Brain Injury Awareness through knowledge and partnership. The Main Purpose of the Orlando Brain Injury Support Group is to provide a safe

4 environment where Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivors can give each other support, share their individual needs and establish friendships by meeting others who face similar challenges. We have educational speakers from the community. We share community resource information and plan recreational time. It is important to help build brain injury awareness for 350,000 people that live in Florida with TBI and for the veterans that sustained a TBI in the war. Together we can each build a strong link in the chain of TBI recovery through friendship and support. Survivor's Policy Learn to communicate your needs and to listen effectively Get Involved Participate & Volunteer. Follow through on your commitments. Build a routine around a schedule that works for you. Ground Rules One speaker at a time Respect each other's ideas Give everyone a chance to speak Speak only on the Topic being discussed Time Management 7:00-7:30PM Introduction, Meet New Attendants 7:30-8:30PM Educational Info Sharing or Guest Speaker 8:30-9:00PM Clean Up Reminders: Give Back Orlando Brain Injury Support Group meets Every 1st & 2nd Thursday from 6:30pm -8:30pm at the St. Lukes United Methodist Church located at 4851 S. Apopka Vineland Road Other TBI resources: Business At Hand It is very important that we show our numbers at the next meeting because March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month: 1. Patty Sheehan City Commissioner of the City of Orlando will sign a proclamation for March BI Awareness Month at our March meeting. Plus, I picked up a signed proclamation from Richard Crotty the Major of Orange County.

5 2. The Work Incentive Program offered to TBI survivors has been postponed again. Please contact Tina at x113 at the Center from Independent Living in Winter Park for more details. 3. Who would like to volunteer to work on a speech to be presented to Middle and Highs Schools about the causes and consequences of Brain Injury? 4. Our elections are in April we need to create BI laws that will specify job descriptions for each position and a contract commitment from each person. There should be two names on the checking account at all times and the chairperson should have access. 5. Plus we need to update memberships to the BIAF. June is the BIAF Jamboree Start saving now! Let me know if you require assistance. 6. Ambassador Jerry Scott and myself attended BISG at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Tampa. There were a couple of soldiers back from the war that sustained mild TBI in road side bombs and a gentleman who fell on his head while doing yard work. We all should do our part to make the adjustment for soldiers coming home a smooth one. 7. We now have a map of counties in area and the support groups that are available. Then we can mark the ones we have visited. 8. I have been participating in the Give Back Orlando Brain Injury Support Group and have submitted a proposal to them for us to join forces. Feedback please. Minutes 20 February 2008 Attendance was 21 Total: 16 TBI survivors, 2 family members, 2 professionals, 1 BIAF. Treasury collected $20.00 Thanks again to Jerry Scott and Longwood Domino's Pizza for the pizzas. We had a really good meeting. Kelly Judkins the family support specialist from the Brain Injury Association of Florida (BIAF) and Shelly Weiss from the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation were there to share information with us. Shelly ( ) let us know that we can apply for services from the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation by going to orientation at 8:45am Tuesday at 3191 Maquire Blvd. We also had Dave Allen from CrossRoads share with us his experience about his son who sustained a TBI and what they do at CrossRoads Center with mapping the brain and re-training the brain. Hope to see you at the next meeting Wed. 19 March 2008 Marie-Terese You are cordially invited to the Orlando Brain Injury Support Group Meeting In Celebration with the City of Orlando's and Orange County's, FL Proclamations that March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month. Wed. 19 March 2008 from 7-9PM

6 At the Mayor William Beardall Senior Center DR Patrick Gorman Guest Speaker