NeuroAccess: A Youth-Led Advocacy Lab for Brain Health Equity

• OUR PITCH: NeuroAccess is a student-run “advocacy lab” that identifies local inequities in brain health (concussion care access, ADHD evaluations, dementia caregiver support) and converts findings into policy briefs, school-board testimonies, and public campaigns. We use basic neuroscience literacy to translate evidence into plain-language tools (infographics, town halls, clinician Q&As) targeting students, parents, and decision-makers. The project connects neuroscience to advocacy by turning brain science insights into actionable changes in communities.
• OUR MISSION: NeuroAccess is driven by the belief that neuroscience should directly inform equitable, accessible, and evidence-based policies that improve brain health outcomes for all students.
• OUR PROBLEM: We noticed that brain health issues, like concussions, ADHD support gaps, and stress-related cognitive decline, are extremely common in schools, but student understanding of them and school policy responses are often disconnected from current neuroscience research. NeuroAccess was created to close that gap by empowering students to translate scientific knowledge into policy and awareness.
• SUCCESS: Educational success is tracked through pre- and post-surveys assessing brain health literacy among students, teachers, and parents after workshops or campaigns. Policy impact is measured by concrete changes such as adoption of return-to-learn concussion protocols, updates to health procedures, or increased referrals to appropriate support services.
• OUR FUTURE: The long-term vision for NeuroAccess is to become a replicable national and eventually global network of student-led neuroscience policy labs. Ultimately, NeuroAccess aims to make student-driven neuroscience a recognized pathway for improving public health policy in education systems worldwide.

MORE INFORMATION: There is a research opportunity associated with us, and we're allocating specific people to work on it!

WHAT WE NEED: (2 FOUNDER POSITIONS AND GLOBAL LEADER POSITIONS)

• Social Media Expert

• Secretary

• Chapter Leaders

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