Brain Injury Awareness Week Resources

It’s Brain Injury Awareness Week (18–24 August 2025).

Let’s raise awareness about the often-invisible impacts of brain injury and how we can all help build more inclusive communities.

Brain injury is defined as any damage or injury to the brain, occurring after birth, resulting in ongoing impairments.

Common causes of brain injury include motor vehicle crashes, assaults, sporting accidents, stroke, lack of oxygen to the brain, brain tumours and degenerative neurological conditions.

The impacts of brain injury can be physical, cognitive, emotional and/or behavioural – and they vary greatly from person to person. Just because you can’t see them, doesn’t make them any less real.

The National Assistance Card is a personalised communication tool that’s available to people with brain injury. Each Card includes areas of difficulty as identified by the cardholder, and a unique QR code, which once scanned shares a written or video message from the cardholder about how to best support them.

The Card can be used in everyday situations when people are shopping or accessing services, or in emergency situations.

Find out more or apply for the Card at www.nationalassistancecard.com.au

Digital flyers providing general information on the National Assistance Card, including eligibility and where to use the Card.

The following wording may assist when using the National Assistance Card Awareness Badge on social media or your website. You can also use @nationalassistancecard on Facebook to tag the National Assistance Card in your post.

[Insert your business/organisation name] is proudly National Assistance Card Aware.

The National Assistance Card is a personalised card to assist people with disability and health conditions in the community.

We're doing our bit to assist Cardholders in everyday situations as well as enhance community understanding of disability and health conditions.

You can learn more at www.nationalassistancecard.com.au

Highlight that your business is National Assistance Card-aware by downloading and using the Awareness Badge on your website or social media.

Files include the primary badge, a news or social media tile, as well as the best practices guide for recommended ways to display and implement the badge and a document containing suggested wording for social media or news items.