Events and Updates

New BIAA publications

These first two highlight where and why there are gaps in care in rural health systems

2026 State of Brain Injury report

2026 State of Brain Injury Report

2025 Public Perceptions of Brain Injury Report

2025 Public Perceptions of Brain Injury Report

The second two are to help make the journey easier

Guides for families and Understanding the Brain Injury Journey

Practical Recovery Guides

This publication archive was listed because The Challenge is an awesome resource for Brain Injury Survivors

The Challenge Magazine Archive

The Challenge Magazine Archive


March meeting at Bushel & Barrel

We had a great time at Poulbo's Bushel & Barel sharing time with one another, eating, feeding various animals.

Thank you to Melissa Kitrell and the staff at Bushel & Barel for welcoming us and being accomidating

It was an awesome place with great people. Click the button below to go to thier website

Bushel and Barel WebsitePhotos of event


2025 In A Nutshell

2025 tested our mettle from the get-go. I am glad to say we rose to the challenge. We were also involved with HB 1848 becoming law. HB 1848 is supposed to return funding for local brain injury support groups and provide funding for our annual brain injury conference. Our ‘Meet Survivors Where They Are’ outreach campaign continues to be a homerun hitter. The campaign got the information to people when they were looking for it. This was measured by the visits to our website, which improved by 30%. We had 12,022 new visits and 21,942 total visits, who viewed 43,200 pages.

Our other accomplishments of 2024 were

  • We began and successfully navigated our first DSHS grant.

  • We welcomed 29 new survivors to our community.

  • We had 65 online & 3 in-person meetings and helped 860 brain injury survivors, including 230 Kitsap County residents.

  • Completed another full year of our wellness surveys and recorded 84 surveys.

  • We partnered with Once Call for All to process our donations

  • We held our inaugural Mariners field trip as a test of our efficacy, with fantastic results

  • We learned that two of our members have resumed their eduction. YAY!

We feel confident going into 2026 as we face new, unanticipated challenges.

Thank you for your confidence and support and we hope to see everybody soon!

Upcoming Meetings

Our operations were made possible in part by a grant from the Suquamish Tribe and Suquamish Foundation.


Project Access Northwest- Pro Bono counseling

We have agreed to a partnership with Project Access Northwest to provide Pro-Bono (free) counseling service to our members.

We believe that access to quality mental health care is a human right and can change a person’s life. Our goal is to help uninsured and underinsured individuals in our service area gain access to the right mental health professional — or emerging health professional — to meet their needs.

Patients may now enroll themselves in the Pro Bono Counseling program.

Learn About the programEnroll as Patient


Still time to celebrate mental health month — Get the toolkit today

We want to remind you that it’s not too late to download your mental health toolkit!

The toolkit is packed with resources and strategies to support your mental well-being and that of your community.

Inside the toolkit, you’ll find:

  • A mental health calendar with daily action steps for betting mental health.
  • A shareable poster to promote mental health awareness in your community.
  • Index cards for creating a vision board to visualize your mental health goals.
  • Social media Spread awareness and positivity by using hashtags #EmpowerMindsStrengthenCommunities and #MentalHealthMonth

Join us in celebrating mental health month by “Empower Minds, Strengthen Communities": for better mental health.

The toolkit is provided by the Washington Healthcare Authority

Download the Toolkit


Introducing our Brain Injury Survivor Wellness-Quality of Life survey

A stipulation of our grants is we are to provide evidence every quarter that our groups improve the quality of life for brain injury survivors. We have identified that utilizing self-reported quality-of-life surveys is the ideal mechanism to capture the required evidence. Only brain injury survivors should participate in this wellness survey.

To conduct this survey, we are using EmailMeForm (EMF) due to their HIPAA Compliance. EmailMeForm will tally and report the survey results. The quarterly results will be available on our website toward the end of March.

By completing this anonymous survey, you are supporting Kitsap Brain Injury. To show our appreciation for completing the quarterly survey, we will send you a gift. This quarter's gift is a purple long sleeve shirt with artwork by Diana Doodles. Diana is a brain injury survivor and attened our groups in the past.

Take the Survey


Our "Meet Survivors where there are" outreach campaign continues into 2025 due to its amazing response

This campaign is intended to get people the information when they urgently need it

Our "Meet Survivors where there are" community outreach plan is to mail three of our support group postcards to every medical and mental health care provider in Kitsap, Clallam, and Jefferson Counties.

If you are a provider who received a postcard and would like to support our efforts, please contact us using the button below

Send Email

This program is made possible in part by a grant from the Suquamish Tribe and Suquamish Foundation


Giving the gift of warmth

Research conducted by the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) has identified that approximately one out of every two homeless people are brain injury survivors.

As the weather is getting harsher and temperatures are colder, our brain injury survivors want to help. We have identified the best way to do that is through donating blankets. Coats, etc. to local area community organizations.

We have identified these organization for you to safely donate and spead warmth this winter

Kitsap

The Arc of the Peninsulas

Kitsap County housing and homelessness coalition

Jefferson

Olycap

Clallam

Serenity House

Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic ReDiscovery Program


Create your own healing sanctuary

Start small and you will be surprised by the calming and healing effects

I normally start with Miracle Grow garden soil and plant starters

Remember to set up a watering routine

If you want a simple gardening guide check out the following website.

Want a Garden? 7 Easy Ways to Start for Non-Gardeners

Go to external site

Occupational Therapy Gardening Ideas for Adults (& Kids)

Gardening tips

Do you have better gardening links? Send them to us using the contact us page and we may share them with everyone


Online Support Groups

We are pleased to announce that we will continue to offer two online support offerings in 2024.

The Monthly Support Group and the new TBI Koffee Klatch

Our monthly support groups meets on the second Thursday of the month at 1:00 PM-2:30 PM

The Koffee Klatch meets every Monday at 10 AM

For more information please visit the online groups page

Online Groups

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