We’ve collected resources and links to help you find stroke information and support. 

Find information about:

• AVMs and other cerebrovascular disorders
• Brain aneurysms 
   

Stroke information

• Stroke Information Page, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• What You Need to Know About Stroke, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• Stroke, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Stroke, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Stroke, U.S. National Library of Medicine
• About Stroke, American Stroke Association

Stroke prevention

See our Stroke Prevention page.

Treatment information

• Stroke Treatment, American Stroke Association
• Patient Center, Society of Neurointerventional Surgery

Support

• The Stroke Network
• Find a Stroke Support Group, American Stroke Association
• The Backstrokes, a singalong group for stroke survivors that meets in Southeast Portland.
• Community Counseling Clinic, a low-cost resource for therapy services through Portland State University.
• Oregon Scottish Rite Speech & Language Clinic, a free aphasia resource that offers weekly support groups, practice language skills and social activities. Services are available in-person and virtually.
• Sarah Bellum’s Bakery, provides a functional rehabilitation bakery program to help people with brain injury to re-engage in the community and rebuild skills to return-to-work.
• Brain Injury Connections NW, a resource for multiple support groups across the northwest, resources and access to information for brain injury survivors and their caregivers.

Organizations

• American Stroke Association
• American Stroke Foundation
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• Aphasia Hope Foundation, a resource on a speech/language disorder that can affect people who have had a stroke
• Aphasia Lab (Portland State University) a resource offering research, education and community services for speech/language disorder from a stroke.
• National Aphasia Association

About the brain

• Brain Basics: Know Your Brain, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• Anatomy of the Brain, American Association of Neurosurgeons