A brain injury is the second highest cause of disability. Brain injuries can happen to anyone of any age, gender, race or socioeconomic status. Limitations such as depression, confusion, speech impairment, memory loss, physical disability, and social isolation may prevent a person with a brain injury from caring for family or returning to work again. For those who survive, the injury is almost always life altering.

The Brain Injury Association of Louisiana (BIALA) is a non-profit organization focused on creating a better future for individuals with brain injury and/or spinal cord injury by locating and obtaining needed services. BIALA strives to be the leading statewide provider of information, resources and services for individuals with a brain injury and/or spinal cord injury, their families and caregivers. Our commitment to the general public is to provide prevention awareness to mitigate the risk of injury and reduce the incidence of injury statewide.

BIALA unites survivors of a brain injury and/or spinal cord injury, families of survivors, healthcare providers, educators and those who support prevention education and injury awareness through the provision of free resources, information and services. 


Did You Know?


Each year, an estimated 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) annually. Of them:

  •  52,000 die,
  • 275,000 are hospitalized and
  • 1.365 million, nearly 80%, are treated and released from an emergency department.
TBI is a contributing factor to a third (30.5%) of all injury-related deaths in the United States.

About 75% of TBIs that occur each year are concussions or other forms of mild TBI.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Report to Congress on mild traumatic brain injury in the United States: steps to prevent a serious public health problem. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2003.

What's New?

BIALA's Resource Center is hitting the road... Heading to a city near you! The Brain Injury Association of Louisiana's Resource Center is hitting the road each month to a city near you. Come join us to meet Resource Center staff, learn more about issues affecting individuals living with brain injury and/or spinal cord injury and meet leading experts discussing treatment, care and management of injury. Catch up with us in Baton Rouge on June 21st. Click here for more details. Space is limited. Please register by emailing info@biala.org! CEUs available pending approval.
Safety: A Summer Essential. As the weather warms, schools close and children head outdoors for stimulation and active play, the need for safety becomes top priority. The  National Safe Kids Campaign estimates that every year, one in four kids ages 14 and younger will sustain an injury that requires medical attention. Forty percent of all injury-related (including brain injury) emergency room visits and 42 percent of all injury deaths happen between May and August. Reduce the number of accidents and decrease the risk of brain injury through educating parents, guardians and children on how to stay safe while still enjoying summer vacation. Make Safety a Summer Essential. Please reference the following websites for helpful summer tips for keeping kids safe this summer: