Words from Jack

JackWords Non-Profit Organization

Filed under: Uncategorized — jack @ 2:57 pm

( F U L L S T O R Y B E L O W) Event S c h e d u l e White House

T h a n k y o u e v e r y o n e w h o h a s c o m e b y m y s i t e .T h i s w i l l n e e d s u p p o r t i n a l o t o f a r e a s a n d I a m c o n t a c t i n g o t h e r k e y m e m b e r s t o h e l p t h e g r o u p r u n m o r e s m o o t h l y . I f a n y o n e w o u l d l i k e t o h e l p i n a n y w a y , p l e a s e c o n t a c t m e b y e m a i l a n d I w i l l e i t h e r c a l l o r e m a i l y o u b a c k .

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This is my Mission Statement

To educate the public about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), its impact on affected individuals, families, and society as a whole - accomplishing this

through public speaking engagements, web blogs, and the production of novel videos. To offer opportunities to individuals who have experienced

TBI to play a role in educating the community at the local, statewide, and national level through public speaking engagements, learning the process

of internet blogging, and acquiring skills in video production with the goal of generating employment opportunities for affected individuals. To open

an art center for persons with disabilities as a way to improve their lives and to beautify the surrounding area.

The center would also serve to increase these individuals’  participation in their community.

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JACKWORDS is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions in behalf of JACKWORDS may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible ito the extent permitted by law.

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Filed under: Uncategorized — jack @ 11:43 am

Hello my name is Jack. I have been dealing with various issues related to my head injury over the past 25 years. I was 16 years old when I was in a car accident, which left me in a coma for 3 1/2 months. I was able to return to the high school that I had been attending prior to my accident. I was an athlete and a good student prior to being in the auto accident. With the help of my family, teachers and therapists, I was able to graduate from high school. After graduation I attended various community colleges but had no particular focus toward future goals. I have been able to develop a more global understanding of life as a person with a disability. Because there was little information about brain injury available at the time of my accident, I had to learn by trial and error what my limitations would allow. Just to give some brief information about my personal history, in my family there is some knowledge of alcoholism and now my father works as a Drug and Alcohol counselor. By witnessing these changes in my father’s career path, I do feel that I am more aware of the situations on from watching the recovery from, alcoholism from a counselor to other alcoholics. My mother and sisters have all been involved in professional vocations. I was able to pick up tidbits of information from them as they spoke about their careers and what they learned from their schooling. The injury caused me one good thing in particular that I was not able to understand right away. It slowed me down. It slowed me down physically - I had to relearn how to walk and speak and I had a lot of cognitive therapists and other psychiatric physicians that helped fine tune my thought processes.I have worked with many psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and have been able to take from their procedures and funnel that into a more personal delivery. I have worked in many jobs and in doing so have met all kinds of people from every walk of life. I have benefited from these experiences by learning how to interact with many types of people. Previous job experiences have led me to the understanding that there is more out there for me to do. I did do some public speaking prior and now feel that I will be able to interact with the speaking in a more helpful way. That is why I am developing this organization - to be able to offer my services to those who are in need of direction for moving positively forward in life. I feel, now that it’s been almost a quarter century since my accident, that I have accumulated enough information to be able to start giving back to these individuals that need some direction. I am not saying that I am the answer to all of life’s problems, but I feel that having gone through the experiences that I have, we can make some better decisions in our future plans. Another thing that I will be doing is putting a program on Public Access T.V. I will be discussing traumatic brain injury as well as other disabilities. Some interviews with area employers and any individuals who would like to voice their opinions.

Please, contact me by email or blog if you might be interested in helping with the show or would like to be a guest. I will need some help in getting my organization going, so any Philanthropy or other organizations that would like to help please contact me with your information. Thank you for your interest.

Thank you,

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