UNE’s Ed Bilsky and Pres. Danielle Ripich (left) receive check from Danielle Goulet and Brad Goulet (right) of the Michael T. Goulet Traumatic Brain Injury and Epilepsy Foundation

Biddeford, ME (PRWEB) January 30, 2012

The University of New England Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences (CEN) has been awarded a generous grant from the Michael T. Goulet Traumatic Brain Injury and Epilepsy Foundation. The grant will help support three projects related to educating students about traumatic brain injury (TBI), including strategies to protect the brain from injury and how to care for patients and families who are recovering from a TBI.

The Foundation was named for Michael T. Goulet, a beloved son, brother and friend whose life was tragically cut short. On February 15th, 2003 as a result of a snowmobile accident, Michael endured a traumatic brain injury. He made a remarkable recovery after undergoing brain surgery, months of intensive rehabilitation, and years of medical care. Subsequent to his recovery, Michael developed a seizure disorder and despite his medical challenges, enrolled at St. Joseph’s College as a psychology major in the hopes of making a difference in the lives of others with experiences like his. Tragically, Michael suffered a grand mal seizure and passed away from complications on October 14, 2010.

The Foundation raises awareness about traumatic brain injuries and epilepsy disorders, provides financial support for afflicted individuals and their families, as well as grants to contribute to medical research and advances in this area.

Brad Goulet, Michael’s father and chairman of the Foundation, states, “On behalf of the Foundation, our donors, volunteers, and our family, it gives me great pleasure to present this grant to the University’s Center for Excellence in the Neurosciences. Our Foundation was founded from a deep personal tragedy and the need to make a difference in people’s lives affected by brain injury and epilepsy. These programs offer an opportunity to make a difference with the greatest impact – prevention – through the Brain Safety Module development, as well as the chance to redefine the model of treatment for patients and families as they migrate from trauma, acute care, rehabilitation, and re-integration through the internship and fellowship programs.”

He adds, “We are very pleased to be working with a local institution and grateful to the University and Dr. Bilsky for their leadership in developing and sponsoring these programs. We look forward to the results of their work and know in our hearts you will make Michael proud.”

Edward Bilsky, Ph.D, UNE’s Associate Provost for Research and Scholarship, and the founding director of the CEN, says “This generous grant will enable us to expand our education activities around the important issue of brain safety. These efforts include outreach to local K-12 communities including Michael’s alma mater, Thornton Academy, as well as in the training of future osteopathic physicians and other health care professionals who have expressed a desire to care for TBI patients. We are pleased to honor Michael’s legacy of dedication, perseverance and hope in the midst of adversity by reaching out to our communities.”

Specifically, the grants support three important CEN programs:

K-12 Education Module on Brain Safety – CEN faculty and students have developed an educational module for K-5, middle and high school students that focuses on brain safety. Through discussions and hands-on activities, the module highlights the fragility of the human brain and the need to protect it from injury (e.g., helmet safety). The module has been field-tested in several local school systems in southern Maine, and the grant will enable it to expand to more schools and include more activities; for example, CEN is developing a module on concussions given the large number of young people participating in contact sports such as ice hockey, football and soccer.

CEN Summer Intern Program– In 2011, CEN launched a summer internship program that introduced high school and college students to the connection between medicine, research and entrepreneurship. Students benefited from an interactive seminar program that included internationally known scientists as well as business leaders in Maine. The program included an associated K-12 outreach component that paired medical students with faculty and undergraduates to develop neuroscience-related education modules for local school systems. Two of the high school interns field-tested the module with UNE’s KidFit summer camp program and continue to work with CEN as liaisons with their school systems. The foundation grant enables CEN to support two additional interns during the program in summer of 2012.

UNE College of Osteopathic Medicine(UNECOM) Student Fellowships in Neurocritical Care and Neurology – The grant will support two additional medical student research fellows in the summer of 2012, which will be awarded to outstanding students interested in pursuing careers in neurology or neurocritical care. The students will be able to participate in research with UNECOM’s established partners such as Maine Medical Center, Togus VA Medical Center, and River Ridge Center.

In collaboration with the Foundation, UNE will present its Tenth Annual InterProfessional Spring Symposium, “Neuroscience Discoveries and Clinical Practice,” on April 5. The symposium will utilize the Goulet family case study for interprofessional roundtable discussions about coordinated brain care. Breakout sessions will address the topics of migraine headaches, neuroplasticity in children, health policy, and health and wellness. Dr. Bilsky will deliver the keynote address, “Coordinated Brain Care: How Neuroscience Discoveries and Interprofessional Practices Can Improve Patient and Population Health.”

About University of New England

Named one of the best regional universities in America by U.S. News & World Report, UNE is a leader in health sciences education, biomedical research and the liberal arts. It offers student-centered, interdisciplinary programs in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Westbrook College of Health Professions, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Pharmacy, and the College of Graduate Studies. For more information, visit http://www.une.edu.

About The Michael T Goulet TBI and Epilepsy Foundation

The Michael T Goulet TBI and Epilepsy Foundation is a Maine-based 501 (c) (3) non-profit that aims to provide direct funding and scholarships to those with TBI or epilepsy through local organizations. It also provides grants to contribute to medical advances with the direct intention of making a positive impact on the lives of afflicted individuals. For more information, visit http://www.michaelgouletfoundation.org.

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Dog Ear Publishing releases “Trespassers on Our Own Land” by Mike Scarborough.

Santa Fe, NM (PRWEB) January 17, 2012

Being forced to leave school after the third grade to help his father raise crops and tend livestock to support their family was just one of the hardships Juan Valdez’s family experienced over the years. As a 9-year-old and for years thereafter, Juan was forced to sneak his family’s cattle onto forest pastures that had for decades been land grant common lands because his family, like so many other land grant heirs, had been denied the use of the land. On June 5, 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina, a traveling preacher, lead Valdez and a group of followers into a courthouse in Northern New Mexico in an attempt to arrest the district attorney and bring national attention to the loss of decades-old land grants that had been denied protection under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This new book details the author’s view of how the United States unlawfully ended up with millions of acres of land grant acreage without even an offer of compensation or apologies for the taking.

Trespassers on Our Own Land, a comprehensive, comparative history of why and how the U.S. government suffered from its chronic affliction of Manifest Destiny, is structured as an oral history of the Valdez’ family and of the political history of the times. It flows from conversation to conversation as Valdez discusses his family’s history with a grandson –giving him lessons on survival, treaties and the government’s establishment of a court to take millions of acres of ancestral lands. He also discusses his views on the U.S. Forest Service’s treatment of the grant lands as its own private domain–and how its actions after 1905 reduced hundreds of land grant heirs to trespassers on their own land as they attempted to survive the travesty.

Trespassers explains in detail why and how the U.S. government selfishly removed millions of acres from the decades-old Spanish, Mexicans and Pueblo Indian grants, all the while acting as though the taking was lawful and appropriate. Drawing on government documents, maps, legal cases, articles and correspondence, Trespassers focuses like a laser beam on this very dark period in U.S. history, the results of which continue to resonate to this day.

Author Mike Scarborough, who has lived in northern New Mexico most of his life, served in the Air Force for eight years before attending college and law school. He practiced law for 25 years before retiring in 1998.

For additional information, please visit http://www.trespassersonourownland.com.

Trespassers on Our Own Land

Mike Scarborough

Dog Ear Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4575-0584-3            312 pages                 $ 19.95 US

Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.

About Dog Ear Publishing, LLC

Dog Ear Publishing offers completely customized self-publishing services for independent authors. We provide cost-effective, fast, and highly profitable services to publish and distribute independently published books. Our book publishing and distribution services reach worldwide. Dog Ear authors retain all rights and complete creative control throughout the entire self-publishing process. Self-publishing services are available globally at http://www.dogearpublishing.net and from our offices in Indianapolis. Dog Ear Publishing – self-publishing that actually makes sense.

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 13, 2012

Muttville is proud to partner with Miss Day and her Foundation in providing education and material support to make high-quality no-cost adoptions to senior citizens.This generous grant will underwrite Muttville’s signature adoption program, “Seniors for Seniors,” bringing older dogs and senior citizens together. In recognizing the special bond between humans and dogs in their “golden years,” This grant of $ 7,000 will allow Muttville to defray the costs of approximately 25 “Seniors for Seniors”adoptions.

“When we learned about Muttville and its successful rescues of so many senior dogs, we knew we had to help,” Miss Day said from her home in Carmel, California. “We fund other charitable 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations that perform excellent work to help the animals and the people who love them. Muttville is a terrific group of volunteers doing good work, and we’re proud to be able to help.”

When Muttville adopts a senior dog into a household where at least one member is aged 60 or older, Muttville provides a “Welcome Home” kit, consisting of food bowls, a collar and leash, a doggie bed, plus a month’s supply of food and any necessary prescription medications. Additionally, Muttville offers senior-friendly home modifications, providing and installing needed improvements free of charge. These improvements can include doggie doors, baby gates, bed ramps, and sofa steps, making a new life together easier for dogs and humans alike.

Among the other grants Doris Day Animal Foundation has provided are funding for college scholarships, programs to aid senior citizens care for their pets, programs for rescue dogs, Kevlar vests for service dogs, rescues of greyhounds, run-sheds for horses, reduced adoption fees for seniors adopting senior pets, wildlife sanctuary assistance, and reduced cost spay/neuter programs as well as a feral cat TNR program, to name but a few.

The Doris Day Animal Foundation, http://www.ddaf.org, has the simple and straightforward mission of helping animals and those who love them. DDAF provides funding to other 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations for animal welfare work with specific low-overhead programs, including animal rescue, lifetime care for search and rescue dogs, helping people care for their animals, assisting with care for horses, paying for spay/neuters and other animal-related needs.

About Muttville Senior Dog Rescue: Founded in 2007, Muttville is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization dedicated to improving the lives of senior dogs. Muttville’s mission is to change the way the world thinks about and treats older dogs and to create better lives for them through rescue, foster, adoption and hospice. Locally, through associations with shelters and other animal organizations, Muttville rescues senior dogs and finds them new homes or provides hospice care. On a global level, Muttville provides information about caring for older dogs and support for people who do.

For more information on Muttville Senior Dog Rescue or to schedule an interview with Founder Sherri Franklin, contact:

Patty Stanton

patty(at)muttville(dot)org

http://www.muttville.org

415 871 8844

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