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April 2007 Website of the Month


Northeast Center for Special Care is pleased to feature:

Bob Woodruff Foundation
http://remind.org/


Our website of the Month for April 2007 continues the incredible story of ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff.  Most of our readers know that in January of 2006 while Mr. Woodruff was an imbedded journalist with American forces in Iraq, both he and his cameraman Doug Vogt were hit by an improvised explosive device (IED), and Mr. Woodruff suffered an nearly fatal traumatic brain injury (TBI).  For the next year millions of people followed the news reports of his rehabilitation and progress - over the past year we have linked to dozens of articles on our news feed about this.

Bob Woodruff didn't simply return to work as an individual recovering from an injury - he returned as an advocate; not only for the soldiers who have experienced a brain injury - the signature injury of the Iraq war - but also for all persons whose life was instantly changed by a traumatic brain injury and their families.  Like Michael J. Fox for Parkinson's, Christopher Reeve for spinal cord injury, Bob Woodruff, by the nature of his injury and recovery has given a public persona to traumatic brain injury.  And Mr. Woodruff is not sitting idly-by which brings us to our website of the month.

IMAGE:  Screen shot of the Bob Woodruff Foundation website. Screen shot of the Bob Woodruff Foundation website.

The
Bob Woodruff Foundation is a not-for-profit organization created to raise awareness and to raise money to support organizations that help those suffering from the physical and psychological wounds of war and ensuring our heroes of war to return home to the assistance they need to successfully reintegrate back into society.  

After awakening from his medically induced coma and experiencing the intensive therapy required to recover Mr. Woodruff became determined bring brain injury to the public conscience and focus light on brain injury.   The foundation and accompanying website was started by the Woodruff family.

In February of 2007 Bob Woodruff returned to ABC news and began turning personal injury into public inquiry.  Over the next two months there was a series of well-publicized news reports and a primetime special.  The Woodruff family also spoke candidly of the experience and shared intimate images of Mr. Woodruff's recovery - some very stark and graphic, but that allowed the general public to begin to understand the significance of a traumatic brain injury.

In 2007, the book:
In An Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing, was released and became a New York Times best seller.  Since then, Bob Woodruff has been continuing to appear on national and local interview programs as well as news reports about brain injury, and he has significantly helped to educate the public about TBI and related conditions.





In An Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing - "In one of the most anticipated books of the year, Lee Woodruff, along with her husband, Bob Woodruff, share their never-before-told story of romance, resilience, and survival following the tragedy that transformed their lives and gripped a nation."

IMAGE:  In An Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing - the cover of the book by Lee and Bob Woodruff.

When you log-onto the Bob Woodruff Foundation website you can learn more about the organization, and its purpose.  When the website was created in 2007 the original focus was on traumatic brain injury - since then the purpose of the foundation has expanded to include Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and combat related symptoms.

Mr. Woodruff and his family are doing a great service through the
Bob Woodruff Foundation website and organization.  Even in its short existence there has been a great deal of awareness raised about traumatic brain injury and PTSD, and we expect over the years it will make a great contribution to the overall understanding of combat related injuries and support for our servicemen and women and their reintegration back home.  Visit the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and learn more about what they do.  You can help support the foundation from the website.

Northeast Center for Special Care is pleased to present the
Bob Woodruff Foundation as our website of the month for April, 2007. They are just a click away, and don't forget to bookmark them so you can visit again.


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AVM Survivors Network
BT Buddies
Brain Injury in the UK
Special Needs Toys
Teenagers and Brain Injury prevention
America's Heroes at Work
Shaken Baby Syndrome Resources
Neuroscience for Kids
Head to Head Ministries
Its Not Who I Am
Canine and Abled
Online Support Groups for TBI
Brain Injury Survivor's Guide
Understanding the Brain and Emotions
Disaboom
Upperex.com
The Brain Injury Recovery Network
Hire Heroes, Fisher House, Sew Much Comfort
The Serper Method™
The Woodruff Family Fund
UEA-Life
Logan Magazine
North American Brain Injury Society
Encephalitis Global
Powell River Brain Injury Society
MedlinePlus
Mothers Against Brain Injury
The Healing Exchange Brain Trust
Erienne Romaine
Brain Injury News and Information Blog

 


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