Join our Facebook page and Twitter feed and help our community grow!
The Brain Injury Association of Minnesota is reaching out to you every way we can! Join our Facebook page and receive updates on current Association events as well as volunteer opportunities and progress on current projects.

Our Twitter feed offers daily updates about brain injury in the news as well as information on educational opportunities and public policy ventures.
Help us connect with you and build a statewide brain injury community!

Upcoming Workshops:

Brain Injury Basics: Caregiving
Date: May 26
Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Cost: $25 for Professionals; $5 donation appreciated from Consumers.

Brain Injury Basics: Introduction to Brain Injury
Date: June 23
Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Cost: $25 for Professionals; $5 donation appreciated from Consumers.

Location: All classes are held in the Education Center at the Brain Injury Association of Minnesota

To register for a class, please click here or call 612-378-2742 or 800-669-6442.

Final year to contribute to ground-breaking TBI research - Apply for the Midwest Advocacy Project today!
The Brain Injury Association of Minnesota is partnering with the Mayo Clinic TBI Model System in a research study to identify how to best teach advocacy to people touched by TBI to improve their health and that of their communities. This groundbreaking study is expected to advance the science of TBI research.

If you are at least 18 years old and a person or family member/significant other affected by a moderate to severe TBI a year or more ago, you are invited to contact us about participating in this research study.

Please click here for more information and to fill out an online application or contact Michelle Gray at the Brain Injury Association of Minnesota at michelleg@braininjurymn.org or 1-800-669-6442.

Rhythm & Roll 2011
Join the Minnesota Stroke Association and Accessible Space, Inc. for an evening of Housing and Hope on Friday, July 15, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. This fundraising event features a concert by Tonic Sol-fa. Tickets are $28 or $40, and are available by calling 763-553-0088.

Sponsorship Opportunities for Rhythm & Roll
Sponsorship offers your company the opportunity to be included in marketing materials, concert tickets, backstage passes, and more! For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please click here or contact Lori Peterson, Development Manager, at the Minnesota Stroke Association by calling 763-553-0088, or contact Lori by e-mail.

Minnesota Stroke Association joins the Brain Injury Association of Minnesota on Facebook and Twitter
Many of you are fans of the Brain Injury Association of Minnesota's Facebook page – an online community that has grown to 802 fans since it started in 2010. Some of you follow our daily updates on Twitter, which has grown to 579 followers in the last year.

Facebook and Twitter are fantastic ways to keep up with Association events and updates as well as read news stories that concern developments in brain injury around the world. But, they are also opportunities to build an online community.

You may not be aware that the Minnesota Stroke Association now has a presence on Facebook and Twitter as well. It’s in its early days, but growing, and we need your help to make it bigger. Click here for the Minnesota Stroke Association's Facebook page, or here for Twitter and join the community. Let us know what you think and what we can do to make things more engaging.

Golf Fundraiser
On Friday, June 10, the 2nd Annual Golf Fundraiser to benefit the Brain Injury Association of Minnesota will be held at Columbia Golf Course, Minneapolis’s second-oldest city course. The Golf Fundraiser raises money for the Association while heightening awareness of brain injury and building a sense of camaraderie among all its participants. The cost per golfer is $65. Sponsorships are available. To learn more about registering for this event, please contact Bill Siitari at bsiitari@gmail.com.

TBI Group Meetings in Itasca County
Wayne Stoltz, TBI/stroke Sept 03, is starting a series of monthly TBI meetings in the Grand Rapids area and he is looking for your support and participation. Anyone with a TBI or their caregiver is encouraged to come. Meetings will be informal, with the goal of talking about ideas and problems in everyday life: work, shopping, getting around, fishing and taxes, anything participants want to talk about or problem-solve. Groups will set the topics for the next meeting at the current meeting.

Where: Blandin Foundation
100 Pokegama Ave N.
Grand Rapids, MN 55744

When: June 13 and July 11 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Thanks to the Blandin Foundation for the room. For more information or questions please contact Wayne Stoltz, at 218-245-0251 or stoltzwd@lcp2.net.

Classified Ad: Accessible Housing in Coon Rapids
Mary T Inc. has current openings in our CC Parkview Lodging program located in Coon Rapids. These four bedroom, barrier free townhomes are located on a commuter bus line to downtown Minneapolis. The $500 a month rent includes the following amenities:

• Heat, electricity, water, sewer, trash, central air
• Three meals plus snacks will be provided each day
• Washer/Dryer
• Basic cable and high speed internet in each bedroom
• Fully furnished common areas and kitchen.
• Maintenance of grounds including snow shoveling and lawn care

Staff are available to assist with general housekeeping of the home on a daily basis, assistance with cooking, grocery shopping, setting up medical appointments, money management, coordination of transportation, socialization and other daily living skill needs specific to each individual. Additional services include weekly support and case management from an LPN and oversight by an RN. This home is staffed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with no overnight staff. An emergency call system is available. MA waiver allocation or private insurance covers the cost of the staff support and services. For more information or to scheduled a tour, please call Scott Rugel at 763-274-8473.

Classified Ad Opportunities
We are pleased to provide an online opportunity for organizations to broadcast their message about job openings, services and more through affordable, convenient advertising. This bi-weekly electronic publication is sent to more than 5,500 professionals, paraprofessionals and persons with brain injury and their families.

The cost to run a classified ad of up to 250 words is $20 for one edition or $30 for two editions. Ads must be submitted in electronic form to receive this rate. Ads submitted in hard copy will be charged an additional $15 administrative fee. To learn more about this affordable, convenient advertising opportunity, please e-mail Phil at philg@braininjurymn.org or call 612-378-2742 or 800-669-6442. Advertising is posted at the end of the publication under the heading "Classified Ads".