Brain Minders

The Facts

• Every 21 seconds someone in the United States incurs a brain injury.
• Every 16 seconds someone in the world sustains a brain injury.
• In the USA, approximately 90,000 people experience a life-long debilitating loss of function due to a traumatic brain injury each year.
• Most frequent causes of brain injuries are vehicular crashes, falls, sports and recreational injuries and assault.
• Brain injury is the most frequent cause of death among young people.
• Annually, 30,000 children become permanently disabled, 150,000 are hospitalized and 7,000 deaths occur due to brain injury in the United States.
• No one is immune from brain injury.
• Many people are not aware that brain damage can occur after a near drowning, or during a medical emergency.
• Currently, up to fifty percent of the American public is unaware that shaking a baby is dangerous.
• An estimated 3,000 children are diagnosed with the traumatic brain injury known as shaken baby syndrome (SBS).
• The only defense against brain injury is prevention education.
• Pilot International's public service campaign, BrainMinders^™ is focused on providing prevention education to the general public, children, caregivers and professionals in the community.
• Pilot International, founded in 1921, is a service organization. Over the past eighty years local, national and international communities have benefited from Pilot International's involvement.
• Since 1991, Pilot International has raised millions of dollars in financial support of charities and organizations benefiting brain disabilities and disorders.
• Pilot International Foundation has awarded over one million dollars in grants assisting Pilot club communities and scholarships for individuals pursuing careers in research, medicine and therapy for brain disorders and disabilities.
• Pilot International Foundation has funded grants to Pilot clubs to activate BrainMinders^™ public service campaign in their local communities and to introduce the BrainMinder^™ Buddies program to children between the ages of three and six-years old. A program for older children is in development.
• Pilot International’s BrainMinders^™ campaign will expand each year to broaden the educational programs and public service opportunities.
• The primary goal of the BrainMinders^™ program is to dramatically decrease the number of brain injuries.
  
   

These facts are based on statistics compiled from DANA Brain Alliance, CDC and the BIA

For More information visit the Pilot International web site.