“When the doors of the class room are closed, it is the teacher who most influences what the children will learn.”

- L.J Cronbach

As an educator or health personnel you are constantly trying to teach your students the consequences to poor choices and the importance of decision-making. ThinkFirst is an injury prevention program that can assist you in this effort. ThinkFirst is dedicated to prevention of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries through effective education.

ThinkFirst Foundation's unique and powerful tool is the VIPs (Voices for Injury Prevention). These are individuals who have sustained a traumatic injury through a poor choice that they or someone else made. They live with those consequences daily by dealing with a life long disability.

The VIPs provide their personal testimony and peer to peer interaction with the students so that other can learn from their mistakes to prevent traumatic injury and death.

Partnered with our VIPs is a health educator who will provide valuable information about how most injuries in our community occur, how to prevent them, and will show models of the brain and spinal cord to demonstrate what happens to those parts of the body when they are injured.

This program is free of charge and we would like to spend one day in your classes speaking to your students about information that can save their life.

Please contact a ThinkFirst chapter near you to schedule a program.

We are greatful for your services and are excited to partener with you for the safety and well-being of our students.