Florida Senate - 2011                            (NP)    SR 1136
       
       
       
       By Senator Bennett
       
       
       
       
       21-01857-11                                           20111136__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution recognizing March 2011 as “Brain Injury
    3         Awareness Month” in Florida.
    4  
    5         WHEREAS, 100,000 Floridians annually sustain a traumatic
    6  brain injury, and
    7         WHEREAS, more than 8,400 Floridians sustain permanent,
    8  life-long disabilities from a traumatic brain injury that
    9  results in a life-altering experience that may include serious
   10  physical, cognitive, and emotional impairments, and
   11         WHEREAS, more than 210,000 Floridians currently live with
   12  permanent disabilities resulting from a traumatic brain injury,
   13  but the lack of public awareness is so vast that traumatic brain
   14  injury is known in the disability community as the “silent
   15  epidemic,” and
   16         WHEREAS, traumatic brain injury attributable to roadside
   17  bombs and blasts is the signature wound of the global War on
   18  Terror, and military personnel who return to Florida with
   19  traumatic brain injuries require additional state and local
   20  resources, and
   21         WHEREAS, most cases of traumatic brain injury are
   22  preventable, and enhanced public awareness of traumatic brain
   23  injury is essential in preventing and developing effective
   24  treatment and providing necessary resources, and
   25         WHEREAS, the Brain Injury Association of Florida, Inc., has
   26  recognized March as “Brain Injury Awareness Month,” NOW,
   27  THEREFORE,
   28  
   29  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   31         That March 2011 is recognized as “Brain Injury Awareness
   32  Month” in Florida.