Volunteers of America-Greater New York joined Council Majority Leader Amanda Farías at a rally on the steps of City Hall to support the passage of Intro 29, legislation that would require first responders to receive training on identifying and responding to symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) that may be mistaken for distress in domestic violence survivors.
NY1 Noticias covered the rally and highlighted lesser-known symptoms of TBI including persistent headache, confusion, neck pain, trouble paying attention, fatigue, blurred vision, and short-term memory loss.
Carmen Fernandez, sector director of VOA-GNY’s domestic violence services, spoke about the importance of the legislation.
“Many women are silent, they do not know how to express the signs they have, such as headaches,” she told reporter Jean Paul Davila in Spanish.