Alabama Citizen Advocacy Institutes
Please join us at our Alabama Citizen Advocacy Institutes, a series of public policy and advocacy trainings held in Mobile, Decatur and Montgomery to help you become a more successful advocate. Each series will explore different ways to influence public policies that impact individuals/families with brain injury. (DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED.)
Who is an Advocate?
If you have ever spoken up for yourself or on behalf of someone else, you are an Advocate! Advocates could include a person with a brain injury, or a family member of a person with a brain injury or someone who cares about them.
Why is Advocacy Important?
Despite past advocacy efforts, many people find that services for people with brain injury and funding for those services is woefully inadequate. People with brain injury do not receive nearly the same services and resources as people with other disabilities. In short, people with brain injury are being left behind and denied many supports and services necessary.
Learn how you can turn your personal experiences with traumatic brain injury into a powerful political message. This is the most effective way to promote the changes we so desperately need.
This Project is supported in part by Grant H21MCO6738 from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Health Resources and Services Administration and Maternal & Child Health Bureau.
