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Your brain is the most important part of you. It is responsible for everything you think, feel and do. Just as it is important to exercise to keep your body in shape, it is also important to follow simple safety tips to help keep your brain safe. A healthy brain equals a healthy you! Below are the Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey’s programs and websites dedicated to helping you keep your brain healthy throughout the ages and stages of your life.

Early Childhood Safety

Brain Injury Prevention and Awareness Lesson Plans

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability in children and young adults. Fortunately, following simple safety precautions can prevent the majority of all brain injuries. This early childhood curriculum guide covers the topics of transportation safety, fall prevention, sports safety, playground safety, and conflict resolution. It includes lesson objectives, activity sheets and additional resources.

Wheeled Sports, Helmet and Pedestrian Safety

Brainy Bunch

Bones Heal. Brains Don’t! Brainy Bunch, a website designed by the Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey, is the resource site for brain injury prevention and awareness. Find information on wheeled sports and helmet safety, sports and pedestrian safety across the ages. This website also includes interactive safety games for kids, and resources for parents and teachers.

Think Positive-A Helmet Safety Reward Program

The Alliance’s Think Positive Toolkit is a step-by-step manual that assists police officers in designing, implementing and maintaining incentive programs that reinforce safe behavior – specifically proper helmet use by children and adolescents on wheeled sports. Includes tips for implementing your program, tools for evaluation, press releases for promoting the program, materials for wheeled sports rodeos, and resources.

Sports Safety

Sports Concussion

Concussions can occur in any sport or recreation activity. Parents, coaches, athletic trainers, school nurses, teachers, advisors, physicians, and athletes need to know the signs and symptoms of concussion and what to do if a concussion is suspected. SportsConcussion.com provides current information about concussion including research, the New Jersey concussion law, concussion in the news, and links and resources to reliable sources in addition to information about identification, management and treatment.

Teen Driving Safety for Teens

U Got Brains?

Car crashes are the number one cause of brain injury and death in teens. But most crashes are preventable. This website, specifically designed for teens, gives tools and resources to new drivers to help make them safer on the roads. Includes information on the GDL law, true stories, pictures, videos and statistics, and safety tips.

U Got Brains Champion Schools Program

It is an opportunity for students and staff of New Jersey high schools to develop campaigns to address teen driving safety. Each school developed its own project based on a topic the school chose pertaining to teen driving safety. We were looking for creative and cutting edge projects that will raise awareness and make an impact on new drivers. Schools utilized social media, videos, blogs, traditional media and other means to help spread their message.

Some ideas included sending messages via text messaging, Facebook, blogging, morning school announcements, developing safe driving slogan for t-shirts for classmates to wear, bracelets, making videos and posting on YouTube, etc.

Teen Driving Safety for Parents

New Jersey Teen Driving

In New Jersey a teen crashes every ten minutes! Informed parents play a key role in keeping teens safe on our roads. This site is designed as a resource for parents and includes a GDL toolkit, risk factors, quick tips, hi-tech tools, and more.

Teen Driving Safety for Educators

New Jersey Driver Education

Educators play an important role in teaching new drivers the information and skills they will need on the road. This website is the resource for driver education teachers. Here you can find GDL information, educator resources and lesson plans, videos, and a bulletin board.

Motorcycle Safety

New Jersey Smart Riders

New Jersey Smart Riders was developed as a website resource for motorcyclists throughout the state. We recognize that a motorcycle riders’ best defense against injury is to complete a training course, obey the laws, and wear protective clothing and equipment. Our goal is to provide information on this website to motorcycle riders that can reduce or avoid their chances for being involved in a crash.

Fall Prevention and Awareness

Heads Up! Seniors

One person in three over the age of 65 will fall each year and 60% of these falls will occur at home! Heads Up! Seniors is a fall prevention and pedestrian safety campaign designed to help older adults lead independent lives through fall prevention and to provide tips on walking safely. Includes materials on brain injury in seniors, a safety checklist, and a walking safely brochure.