Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado

Client services for children, youth, and adults with brain injury are delivered through a contractor, the Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado (BIAC). In addition to free case management support, children and youth can also receive education consultation to address school-related challenges resulting from brain injury. Please visit their website for more details and to get connected.
BIAC reports monthly, mid-year, and annually to MINDSOURCE on their contracted activities:

Monthly & Mid-year Dashboard Data

Annual Reports

To request Annual Reports from prior years, please please contact MINDSOURCE.

Colorado Department of Education

In addition to services provided by BIAC for all ages, MINDSOURCE has an Interagency Agreement with the Colorado Department of Education (CDE). The focus of this agreement is to build the capacity of school district personnel and community providers to better support and serve children/youth with brain injury.

CDE reports annually to MINDSOURCE on these activities:

To request CDE Reports from prior years, please please contact MINDSOURCE.

Client Services Logic Model

MINDSOURCE worked closely with a contractor and a group of stakeholders, including those with lived experience, to identify the individual and community level outcomes MINDSOURCE is hoping to achieve through service coordination, skill building, education consultation, and classes/workshops. This included 20 interviews and one focus group to gather expert input; three work sessions with a subset of key stakeholders to draft and finalize the logic model after follow-up with the larger stakeholder group for feedback on the draft. This resulted in a logic model that includes the context, external factors, assumptions, guiding principles, client service activities (client and systems/community level), outputs, short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes.

Colorado REAP Manual for School Aged Youth

Developed from a MINDSOURCE Community Grant in 2009, REAP was written after the tragic loss of Jake Snakenberg to Second Impact Syndrome in Colorado in 2004. REAP outlines the 4 teams involved in good concussion management and spells out steps toward return to school/learn and a safe return to play. Since 2009, REAP has been presented at the TBI Congressional Taskforce, has been customized for 16 states and has been translated into Spanish. It is the “program out of Colorado” mentioned in the still standing Clinical Report on Return to Learn endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics (2013) and it has been updated three times (in 2013, 2018 and 2024) to incorporate the newest concussion management research that have come out of the 4th, 5th and 6th Consensus Statements on Sports-Related Concussion (Zurich Guidelines 2012, Berlin Guidelines 2016 and Amsterdam Guidelines 2022). The 2024 Colorado REAP Manual is posted here to provide free, research-based and interdisciplinary team concussion management guidance to Colorado healthcare offices, emergency rooms and to parents in need. It has also been adopted by the Colorado Department of Education as digital guidance to every Colorado school – elementary, middle, high, public, private and charter – for the 2024 – 2025 school year. As the lead state agency on brain injury in Colorado, MINDSOURCE oversees the revisions and dissemination of REAP in Colorado; and even though REAP started in Colorado, it now has been given to the National Association of State Head Injury Administrators (NASHIA) so that REAP can be easily customized for all states in the country. With this national platform, REAP can now help even more communities come together to safely support children/adolescents post-concussion.