March 8, 2026
Youth are at high risk of brain injuries from sports, falls, bicycle accidents, motor vehicle crashes, farming accidents, and as a pedestrian being hit by a vehicle. Rural Missouri youth are our future farmers.
Pediatric traumatic brain injury leads to 500,000 emergency department visits and approximately 60,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. each year.
2,774 youth died from brain injury in 2020. The total TBI-related deaths that year were 64,362.
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These materials are based in part upon work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), United States Department of Agriculture, under sponsored project number Missouri AgrAbility Award 2022-41590-38128.
This project was supported, in part by grant number 90TBSG0061-05-00, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official Administration for Community Living policy.