The Kona tramatic brain injury support group meeting on Wednesday featured the “Unmasking Project,” with Christel Magallanes LSW, from the State of Hawaii Department of Health, Neurotrauma Supports project. The support group made masks to identify and express feelings associated with their brain injury, through the mediums of paint, markers, crayons, beads and feathers and placed onto blank masks. Each participant also provided a written description of their brain injury and an explanation of the mask.
The mission of this project is to promote awareness of the prevalence of brain injury; giving survivors a voice and to educate others what’s it like to live with a brain injury; and to show others that persons living with a disability due to their brain injury are like anyone else.
Completed masks and description will be displayed statewide in shopping malls during brain injury awareness month in March.