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 BIALA website!
Please Join BIALA or
Renew your Annual Membership by
visiting our Membership Form page!

The Brain Injury Association of Louisiana (BIALA) is a non-profit organization that serves the needs of persons with brain injury, their families, and care providers. Our focus is to create a better future for individuals with brain injury by helping them find and obtain needed services, advocacy, and promotion of research.  We also provide brain injury prevention awareness and public education.
 
Goal
To provide information, referral and support to persons with brain injury and their families, including but not limited to the following:
  • Organize and support social interaction,
  • Provide resources and information, and
  • Promote and foster the empowerment of persons with brain injuries.
To advocate and promote awareness in Louisiana regarding brain injury and the rights and needs of persons with brain injuries, including but not limited to the following:
  • Increase public awareness of the incidence and consequences of brain injuries,
  • Increase public awareness of the abilities and capabilities of persons with brain injury,
  • Advocate for public education that address the problems of persons with brain injuries, their families and care providers, and
  •  Advocate for public policies that can prevent, as well as provide service to persons with, brain injuries.
BIALA can accept your Tax Deductible Donation
 through Pay Pal. 
Please consider making a donation now to support our working in providing resources to individuals with brain injuries and their families.

Contact Info:
BIALA
P.O. Box 57527
New Orleans, LA 70157
Toll-Free #: 1-800-500-2026
Phone: 504-619-9989
Email: info@biala.org
 
BIALA Staff
 
        LaVondra Dobbs           Madonna Franco
              Executive Director        Resource Coordinator
        ldobbs@biala.org          mfranco@biala.org



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REGISTER NOW
for our
3rd Annual BIALA Conference
March 25 & 26, 2010
at The Greater Covington Center
Covington, Louisiana

You may register on-line or print and mail your Registration form. 
Just go to "Annual Conference" on the side bar to the left of this page 
 on the navigation site.


More Upcoming Events




The Secret Gardens Tour
March 12th and 13th

By taking a tour of the most spectacular private gardens in Uptown New Orleans, you will be supporting BIALA and the Acquired Brain Injury Survivors Support Group.  Brain Injury survivors tour for "Free."  Individual tours are $25 and Private Guided tours are $60.  You may purchase your tickets on-line at

The Disposable Heroes Project
April 2010

 
Looking for Resources?
Click on "Resource Guide" at the
bottom of this page.


2010 Brain Injury Association 
Board of Directors 

        Tessie DiFulco                David Gallegos   
        Chairman                       Vice-Chairman
        tdifulco@biala.org           dgallegos@biala.org
 
        Susan Bushnell               Joyce Rice            
        Secretary                       Treasurer                   
        sbushnell@biala.org        jrice@biala.org  
 
Suzanne Lentz
Hammond Place
NeuroRestorative Associates
slentz@biala.org

Janet Clark
Touro Hospital

Paul Genco
NeuroRestoratives Associates
pgenco@biala.org

Michelle Gallagher
Braud and Gallagher, LLC
mgallagher@biala.org

Elizabeth Campbell
ecampbell@biala.org


Next BIALA
Board Meeting
March 4, 2010
10 A.M.
Jefferson, Louisiana
For Details on Location
Contact: ldobbs@biala.org

 

 
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