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Education & Advocacy Program

Operation Brain Health Kids

Where physical education meets brain science: a kinesthetic learning curriculum built by world-class brain health and performance experts to help elementary students understand their brains, prevent injury, and unlock their potential.

A MESSAGE FROM KEN DRYDEN

The time of awareness is gone and there is absolutely no excuse.

THE PROGRAM

Empowering Youth for Peak Health and Performance

Operation Brain Health Kids brings the information that would have saved Rowan Stringers life to students across Canada. Our three-part curriculum is designed for elementary classrooms and built to scale across the country, customized to your needs. Choose one, two, or all three components.

Physical Education Module
01
MOVEMENT

Physical Education Module

Students learn how their brain works, how to fall safely, and how to optimize performance through movement — physical literacy that protects the head as it builds the body.

Brain Health Classroom Unit
02
EDUCATION

Brain Health Classroom Unit

An in-class unit covering brain function, injury prevention through the bystander model, and practical, repeatable strategies kids can use to care for the brain they have for life.

Design Challenge
03
INNOVATION

Design Challenge

A creative challenge for every classroom. Students build solutions for real problems and submit via an online portal, giving students a real platform and CLFC real-time insight into how they're learning and what moves them.

OUR TRACK RECORD

We're not starting here. We're scaling.

Operation Brain Health Kids takes the best practices from a decade of school-based concussion education and rebuilds them for the modern classroom.

1000+
School events delivered through our legacy Team Up Against Concussions program since 2013.
50k+
Canadian students reached by trained university presenters and brain injury advocates across the country.
22
Canadian university chapters involved in the program since inception, including Western, McGill, U of T, ULaval, Dalhousie and more.
12+
Years of program iteration and learning, now distilled into a province-ready curriculum.
From awareness to practice

An evolution, not a replacement, of a proven model

2013 → PRESENT

Team Up Against Concussions

A 30–45 minute interactive education program for schools, community groups, and athletic programs, fostering safer concussion culture through discussion, video, and games led by trained presenters.

2025 → PRESENT

Operation Brain Health Kids

A full kinesthetic curriculum embedded in the school year. Brain science meets physical literacy meets innovation. Accessible in PE class, in the classroom, and through a digital innovation challenge.

Be Part of the Generation that Didn't Wait

We're building Operation Brain Health Kids in partnership with educators, ministries, and Canadian institutions. Join us and bring the program to your school, your district, or your community.

Partner with CLFC

We're actively seeking school boards, educators, and community partners to scale this program across Canada.

Bring OBH Kids to Your Community

Large group of people at the Race To End CTE 2023 event

SUPPORT OUR MISSION

Help Us End Brain Injury.Donate Today.

Your contribution directly fuels life-saving research and provides essential support to kids, Veterans, caregivers, athletes and families across Canada facing the challenges of brain injuries.

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