Think First Program

Think First is a 45 minute program available on request to educators who want to bring the message of trauma prevention into the classroom.

Sponsors of Think First have designed the program to explain the causes and consequences of spinal cord and traumatic brain injury.

Think First objectives include :

• Intensifying students' understanding of risk, especially in careless or drunk driving
  
• Encouragings acceptance of responsibility by young people for safety
  
• Dispelling the idea that "it won't happen to me"
  
• Suggesting proven means of reducing risk of injury
  

Presentations include a clinical presentor that explains SCI from a medical standpoint, and a Spinal Cord Injury Survivor, who can relate their own experience to students, as well as warn of the risks of SCI that students will encounter. Also included in the presentation is a 20 minute film by Barry Corbett, in which various people with spinal cord and brain injuries tell their own stories.

Think First presentations are available to any school in Connecticut. To request a presentation in your school, or for more information please call the NSCIA CT Chapter at (203)284-1045 or email us.