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VBII - The Violence and Brain Injury Institute
 The Violence and Brain Injury Institute began in 1995 as a collaborative project between the
National Brain Injury Association, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military
Medicine and the Defense and Veterans Head Injury Program. Growing out of the larger, Violence and
Brain Injury Project, the work of the VBII was to further the cause of brain injury prevention
through the development, evaluation and implementation of violence and injury prevention initiatives.
Other contributing organizations to VBII projects include: The University of Virginia Curry
School of Education; The University of Virginia School of Nursing; American Re-Insurance Company;
Up-John Pharmaceutical; State Farm Insurance; DC Department of Corrections; Virginia Department of
Corrections, Sheriff's Department/Detention Facility; DoD Schools at Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
and numerous State Brain Injury Associations especially, BIA New Jersey; BIA Florida; BIA North
Carolina, BIA New York and BIA Maine. Significant conference collaborations included the First,
Second and Third National Conferences on Shaken Baby Syndrome; the 1995 and 1999 SAFE USA Conferences;
and the IBIA World Congresses of Sevilla, Spain and Quebec, Canada.
Mary-Garrett Bodel, (Garrett) has been the primary author and program developer of the VBII
programs and publications. Garrett Bodel was employed as prevention coordinator by the Brain Injury
Association from 1992-1994, as program developer and VBII Director by the Jackson Foundation, from
1994-2000 and as VBII Director by the International BIA from 2000-2003. All programs have been developed,
field-tested and revised in collaboration with the target populations.
In September, 2001 a formal agreement between the Jackson Foundation and the International BIA
was established assigning the copyrights of all publications completed by MG Bodel while an employee
of the Jackson Foundation to the IBIA for current and future use and distribution. These works are now
available on line, for no charge, courtesy of the Defense and Veterans Head Injury Program and
the International Brain Injury Association.
http://www.vbii.org
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