ThinkFirst of Greater Kansas City was founded in 1987 and offers a free educational program to schools grades K-12 designed to create an understanding into how brain and spinal cord injuries can be prevented. This comprehensive injury prevention program is designed to help young children develop lifelong safety habits to minimize their risks of sustaining brain, spinal cord and other traumatic injuries. Young people that have sustained a brain or spinal cord injury share their own stories of how they were injured, what they could have done to prevent their injury and what their life is like now. Each year, the message is presented to more than 30,000 Kansas City area youth. For information about bringing ThinkFirst to your school contact us at (816) 276-3163 or info@theresearchfoundationkc.org.

ThinkFirst is part of a national organization founded by America's Neurosurgeons. The ThinkFirst program is currently under way in over 200 communities in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Chile, Australia, Singapore, Jamaica, Lebanon and Mexico. For more information about ThinkFirst, log on to www.thinkfirst.org.

In 2008, ThinkFirst of Greater Kansas City was honored as Chapter of the Year among 111 chapters.  This chapter serves four Missouri and 2 Kansas counties and communicated the important message of preventing brain and spinal cord injuries to over 32,000 students in 2008. 

The Golf Classic is held annually to assist in raising funds for the ThinkFirst Chapter of Greater Kansas City and their efforts to thousands of students every year with their life-changing message.  The 21st Annual Research Medical Center Golf Classic will be held on Tuesday, August 17, 2010.  See the brochure.