Opportunity Project Hosting Series of Events for National Brain Injury Awareness Month

A Millburn-based service organization is hosting a number of events during the month of March to raise awareness during National Brain Injury Awareness Month.

Opportunity Project, a service organization for people with brain injuries, is hosting a month-long series of events beginning on March 2, including presentations, workshops and events, and its signature event, Healthy Brain, Healthy Me Wellness Day, the organization said in a press release.

Healthy Brain, Healthy Me Wellness Day, sponsored by Barnabas Health and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, will take place at the Opportunity Project Clubhouse, 60 East Willow St., on Wednesday, March 18. The organization’s series of events also includes a head-to-head gumbo cook-off between Millburn firefighters and Millburn Mayor Robert Tillotson on March 21, according to the release.

Other local companies are joining the series of events, including Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, the release said. Beth Israel will be hosting “Lunch and Learn” at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center on March 31, bringing members to the hospital to speak about their lives as brain injury survivors.

Opportunity Project said the organization helps the community’s understanding of brain injury and what the recovery process involves.

“So many people are affected by brain injury through car accidents, sports concussions, work incidents, falls and medical conditions like stroke,” Carol Albanese, Executive Director of Opportunity Project, said in the release. “Yet as an invisible condition, few people understand the affliction.”

For more information about Opportunity Project’s series of events for National Brain Injury Awareness Month, visit the Opportunity Project website.