Families of persons with brain injuries founded the Brain Injury Association of RI, Inc. in 1983. It grew out of an overwhelming need for appropriate services and support to brain injury survivors. We are a statewide membership organization, providing services to many Rhode Islanders with traumatic brain injury and their families. The BIA of RI is a chartered affiliate of the Brain Injury Association of America, Inc.
This non-profit 501(c)(3) organization has worked to expand services in Rhode Island for the care and rehabilitation of individuals who have sustained brain injuries. Our efforts include increasing the public’s awareness of traumatic brain injury and its’ consequences, developing support systems, encouraging appropriate rehabilitation and services for survivors and disseminating information about brain injury. The Association actively collaborates with state and private entities to educate survivors, family members and professionals on all aspects of brain injury prevention, treatment and support needs. This is accomplished through an annual brain injury conference
The BIA of RI, as contractor of a Federal TBI Grant, has recently opened a Brain Injury Resource Center to improve access to information on traumatic brain injury, and to enhance the effectiveness of agencies and service providers who work with survivors of brain injury. The Association co-sponsors four monthly support groups throughout the state. A BIA of RI website has been established to further enhance the access to information and support.
The mission of the Brain Injury Association of RI, Inc. is to prevent brain injury and to enhance the lives of those affected by brain injury. Our membership includes brain injury survivors, their families and friends, health-care professionals, physicians, providers of brain injury rehabilitation, and other advocates.
For more information please contact us at:
Brain Injury Association of RI, Inc.
935 Park Avenue, Suite 8
Cranston, RI 02910-2743
1-888-824-8911
401-461-6599
Fax: 401-461-6561
Website: www.biaofri.org
E-Mail: braininjuryctr@biaofri.org
Office Hours are Monday – Friday
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
