Resources (TBI)

Resources

• Colorado Kids with Brain Injury
• Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado - Resource Navigation and Services 
  • Do you know someone with a brain injury who needs support?  Refer them to the Brain Injury Alliance of CO for services
• BrainLinks - Bringing together professionals to recognize the far-reaching and unique nature of brain injury and to improve services for survivors.
• Center on the Developing Child – Harvard University - These key scientific concepts are the building blocks of the core story of child development. Each page within this section provides a concise overview of a different key concept and provides a variety of resources created by the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child and the Center.
• CDE Concussion Management Guidelines
• MINDSOURCE Brain Injury Network
• Policy Recommendations for School Systems serving Students with Brain Injury (PDF) – National Collaborative on Children’s Brain Injury
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Report to Congress on The Management of TBI in Children
• Overlapping Behavioral Characteristics & Related Mental Health Diagnoses in Children (PDF)

For Kids & Families

• All About Me (PDF) - A packet to help adults understand kids.
• All About My Brain (PDF) - The Building Blocks of Brain Development for Kids
• Colorado Classroom: Read with Me at Home - Governor Jared Polis, the Colorado Department of Education, and the Colorado Education Initiative are partnering with Rocky Mountain Public Media to provide K-3 learners, and their families and caregivers with direct-to-home remote literacy learning though “Colorado Classroom - Read With Me at Home”.
• HCP Program
• Neurodiversity Strengths Checklist (PDF)

Screening Tools

• Brain Check Survey (Revised)
• National Association of State Head Injury Administrators

Colorado Department of Education

For more information, please contact:

Jody Dickerson, RN, BSN, MN
Brain Injury Specialist 
Phone: (720) 795-2273
Email Jody Dickerson