Decker, Patricia Occleshaw

The author -- Sober Jim's mother -- was elected founding president of the Southern California Head Injury Foundation, Inc. (SCHIF) in 1982. Today California is an active chapter of the Brain Injury Association of America - BIAUSA. In those formative years of the 1980's, thousands of families and professionals united to open up a successful grassroots corridor. Because of these early endeavors, "The Decade of the Brain" was introduced to the nation by 1990. New brain research, state and nationwide helmet laws, lowered speed limits, child safety restraint laws, enforced mandatory seat belt and n...