Secret Gardens Tour 2010

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Acquired Brain Injury Survivors of Southeast Louisiana

Acquired Brain Injury Survivors (ABIS) of Southeast Louisiana is a non-profit organization formed in 1996. Our goal is to provide a comfortable arena for those who have brain injuries, as well as their family members. ABIS is dedicated to providing assistance through peer support and encouragement, social rehabilitation, information distribution, resource sharing, and therapeutic activities. Current members are brain injured to varying degrees. Origin of injury varies from brain cancer to traumatic injury due to collision and/or impact. We want to help all brain-injured people in our community.

ABIS offers:

A place for discussion of our impairment
A way to understand how these changes affect us and our loved ones
Achieving a sense of balance and belonging
Sharing of adaptive tools we have used in our daily lives
Providing an opportunity for sharing feelings and our losses
Reinforcing our self-worth and celebrating our rebirth
Facing the challenge of having an "invisible" injury and educating the public

Our support group conducts counseling and sharing sessions as well as activities such as arts and crafts that foster self-expression. Speakers, guests or members present topics ranging from medical research to practical life strategies. We have all had a life-changing event and we are trying to help one another along.

Currently, our Support Group meets the second Saturday of each month at 1:00 pm in the conference room at the Rosedale branch of the Jefferson Parish Library located at 4036 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson, Louisiana.

Please call us at (504) 849-9069. Please also check out our website at http://abigroup.homestead.com/. You can sign up for our newsletter so you can keep informed about the activities planned for the Acquired Brain Injury Survivors of Southeast Louisiana. Our mailing address is:

Acquired Brain Injury Survivors of Southeast Louisiana
P. O. Box 10738
New Orleans, LA 70181

Donations are welcome and appreciated.

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Brain Injury Recovery

In the United States, 5.3 million people are living with a TBI (traumatic brain injury) disability and over 5 million more Americans have acquired a brain injury through stroke or other causes.

In Louisiana, 90 out of every 100,000 residents have some form of a brain injury.

1,000 out of every 100,000 metro Orleans area residents acquire brain injuries.

Funds raised from the event will go to local brain injury education and recovery programs.

Brain Injury Conference

The 3rd Annual BIALA Conference is March 25 and 26, 2010 in Covington, Louisiana at the Greater Covington Center.

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