This forum is strictly for individuals who have sustained acquired brain injuries. This is an acquired brain injury survivor public policy and advocacy forum. Everyone here is a brain injury survivor and survivor advocate. Since 2006 we have been developing and disseminating a public policy platform on behalf of our brain injury survivor community. ABI causes include traumatic brain injury (tbi), stroke, tumor, or illness (encephalitis, meningitis, etc.) “Survivor” designations include abi survivors, brain injury survivors, anoxic brain injury survivors, brain tumor survivors, post-abi survivors, post-tbi survivors, stroke survivors and tbi survivors, etc. Other terms associated with survivors in this group include anoxic or hypoxic brain injury, blast brain injury, brain aneurysm, brain injury related to surgical procedure, brain trauma, catastrophic brain injury, cerebral hemorrhage, chemo brain, coma, concussion, diffuse brain injury, head injury, head trauma, head wound, locked-in syndrome, mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), moderate brain injury, penetrating head wound, persistently unaware state, postconcussion syndrome, post-traumatic brain injury syndrome, serious or severe brain injury, and skull fracture. The focus of SABI is on collective advocacy and self-advocacy for people with brain injuries. If you are a survivor you can help our community by adding your insights as a participant in this group. Please help us to provide a safer, brighter, happier world for the members of our brain injury community. SABI is operated by the Brain Injury Network (BIN), an international and national, consumer-driven, advocacy, and non-profit organization for people with acquired brain injuries. BIN is located in California USA and has been operated for and by survivors since 1998. Please see our additional human rights statements, public policy platform, procedural recommendations, and service provider guidelines at our website at http://braininjurynetwork.org