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“Resource Guide for Iowans Affected by Brain Injury” Brain injury is a complicated diagnosis, and understanding this new world can be confusing and overwhelming after an injury has occurred. For more than 35 years, the Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa has been working to be there for Iowans who find themselves navigating this unanticipated landscape.

The Des Moines Register reporter Aaron Young (right) recently lost his mom, Angela, to a brain injury, and his family received support from the Brain Injury Alliance during their journey. He wrote about his family’s heartbreaking experience here. March is Brain Injury Awareness Month nationwide, and it’s all about sharing stories, both happy and sad, to

Medicaid update from Disability Rights Iowa (DRI): “Many lawmakers and citizens see dollar signs rather than faces when considering Medicaid Managed Care issues in Iowa. Help Disability Rights Iowa show lawmakers that Iowans in the Medicaid Managed Care system are just like them. They want to live in their homes in their communities rather than

EXCERPT: “In the first version of her story, Grace Costa says that, on the night after Christmas, in 2012, her ex-boyfriend broke into her house, hid behind her bedroom door, and then attacked her as she and her two grown children—a son and a daughter—were about to eat dinner. In the second version, it’s still