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Congratulatons to ThinkFirst on receiving distinguished service award from Congress of Neurological Surgeons

By Michael Kaplen

Congratulations to the ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation `which was recognized as a leader in injury prevention by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). CNS presented the 2009 Distinguished Service Award to the ThinkFirst Foundation at the CNS Annual Meeting of over 2,000 neurosurgeons in New Orleans.

The ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation has been focused on teaching children and teens the importance of making safe choices since 1986. Educational programs for first through twelfth grades have a major impact on impressing kids to ?Think First? when it comes to safety. 

We all know that the best cure for brain injury is prevention and this organization has had a long standing commitment to head injury prevention programs. 

ThinkFirst was recognized for its work in providing meaningful, educational injury prevention programs to thousands of children and teens each year. One hundred and thirty national and 39 international chapters visit health, science and driver education classes to teach students how to reduce their risk for injury. Based largely in injury prevention departments within hospitals and medical universities, nurses, health educators and their sponsoring physicians schedule programs with schools to assure every child and teen in a given community learns simple measures for protecting themselves from the most common causes of injury: vehicle crashes, violence, falls and sports.

Formerly known as the National Head and Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program, ThinkFirst was established in 1986. The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) directed two neurosurgeons, to develop a national injury prevention program. ThinkFirst has since developed into one of the largest injury prevention programs in both the U.S. and Canada.

One of the most recent projects was the production of a new educational film for teens titled ?Think About Your Choices,? with support from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. For more information on ThinkFirst visit the ThinkFirst web site. 

Full post as published by Brain Injury News and Information on November 20, 2009 (boomark / email).