Hickory Brain Injury Support Group

05/06/2025

🧠 We Need Your Voice: Help Restore and Expand the NC TBI Waiver!

Governor Josh Stein proposed funding for 75 new Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Waiver slots—but the Senate removed that funding entirely.

We need those 75 slots and more to expand the TBI Waiver statewide. North Carolinians living with brain injury have already waited too long. We can’t afford to wait any longer.

📢 Take Action Now – Contact Your Representative Today:
👉 https://biausa.quorum.us/campaign/121844/

Your advocacy is essential to ensure individuals living with brain injury—and the families who care for them—receive the support they deserve.

04/21/2025

Funding continues to be needed in research and implementation of services for individuals with brain injury. Recent news indicates severe cuts in funding are being proposed. Please urge your house representative to sign appropriations letter.

Protect Federal Funds for Brain Injury Programs

03/12/2025

🚨 Urgent: TBI Act Left Out of Federal Funding! 🚨

👉 https://biausa.quorum.us/campaign/113586/👈

Dear Brain Injury Advocates,

Congress has left the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Reauthorization Act out of the latest Continuing Resolution, putting life-changing programs at risk!

Since 1996, the TBI Act has been the only federal law supporting states in serving people with brain injuries. Its reauthorization expired on Sept. 30, 2024, leaving critical services in limbo.

Despite unanimous House passage and bipartisan support, Congress failed to include it in the latest funding bill. Without action, millions—including children, veterans, and first responders—could lose access to essential services.

📢 Take 30 seconds to make your voice heard! Urge Congress to include the TBI Reauthorization Act in the next funding bill.

👉 https://biausa.quorum.us/campaign/113586/👈

01/21/2025

I would like to ask for prayers and well wishes for a fellow member of our HBISG - Star who has once again received another Brain Injury through a fall and has been transferred from local Grace Hospital to BIGDOG Asheville Hospital. Please say a prayer and send HEALING WISHES to her and her Mom. I will try to keep you guys up to date on her status.

12/22/2024

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year fellow Hickory Brain Injury Support Group Members, caretakers, new group members, family and friends! This year was a major upgrade for health news, group support, and friendship! We had to adjust a few things in the matrix, and its better for all of us in the long run. Hopefully the new year will help us grow more as individuals and as a group, and finally find the perfect vacation retreat that we all have been waiting for!

11/16/2024

After a Day at Sea we were starved so Dave and Busters we chowed down it was SUPER YUMMY and my Grandson Knox enjoyed an hour or more in the HUGE surrounding game room coming home with a cool gift win. Today was an EXCELLENT DAY spent with some of my favorite folks. Maybe those that missed out this year will BE SURE to join us for our next 25 FunDay.

11/16/2024

More pics thx to Kim

11/16/2024

What a fun day with my HBISG Pals at Sea Life in Concord Mills Mall after which enjoying a delicious meal with game time to follow at Dave and Busters. I got a few pictures to share now with our group photos to share once I get to my computer but here's a few to enjoy in the meantime.

10/29/2024

06/05/2024

Join us next Friday, June 7 at 12:00 p.m. ET for a live event on brain injury as an invisible disability. During the event, BIAA's Director of Consumer Services, Greg Ayotte, will be joined by Brain Injury Survivor Council members Angela Leigh Tucker, Kelly Lang, Stacia Bissell, and Darcy Keith to discuss the realities of living with an invisible disability. They will also share their tips and strategies for dealing with the challenges that come with living with an invisible disability. Join us on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube.

05/15/2024

Hickory Brain Injury Support Group is a great place to learn, share, meet like minded folks with a head dent as well and make new friends that share common interests. As me and Nick met up for one at the annual Hops Fest downtown Hickory. Yes, I was standing on something to make me appear taller. No, our group doesn't just talk about Brain Injury lol CHEERS

01/07/2024