Chandler Kimball Foundation for CTE Awareness

11/20/2025

Happy 32nd birthday Chandler.💙

01/30/2024

Today is National CTE Awareness Day.
This is a day to reflect on those lost to & , how to help those suffering with the disease, and most importantly how to stop the disease.

This year’s awareness comes as the New York Times, The Washington Post, and multiple local media report on new research that shows the effects of repeated head impacts (RHI) are showing up more frequently, especially in younger athletes.

The public, especially parents of young athletes, should know this information to make informed decisions about when or whether their kids play contact sports.

01/25/2024

152 young athletes brains were studied
63 of those brains had
That's just over 40%

Ask yourselves, "is it worth the risk"?



CTE Hope

The study looked at CTE risk in youth sports.

01/22/2024

Today, we join 22 other organizations and more than 30 families of lost to repetitive head impacts ( ) in in urging Dr. Mandy Cohen, the of the to provide with updated information about the dangers of RHI.

We call on the agency to update all materials with new about the dangers of for younger athletes. Providing this information is an important step in preventing the tragic loss of whose in sports result in ***de, erratic , , poor , or other forms of suffering that could have been avoided.

Read the full letter at by clicking this link below.

https://stopcte.org/sign-our-letter-to-dr-mandy-k-cohen-director-for-the-cdc/

The Chandler Kimball Foundation's mission is to raise awareness of CTE, the dangers of youth tackle football, and to provide family members resources they can utilize to support their decision to find safer sports for their children and loved ones.

11/20/2023

Happy 30th Birthday, Chan. I love you. We all love you. ❤️ What’s good?

11/17/2023

The Started Playing Football as Young as 6. They Died in Teens and Twenties With C.T.E. - New York Times 11/17/23

Please read this article. Link in Bio.

07/03/2023

To our supporters of the Chandler Kimball Foundation. We wanted to update you all and share some exciting information about the work we've been doing in the background with CKF related to a grant we received from Google for their AdWords marketing platform. Using targeted keyword advertisement, we've been able to raise awareness of CTE and the dangers of youth tackle football - and have reached many thousands of people interested in learning more about the risks and the disease. We began utilizing this AdWords grant exactly one year ago this month. Here's some key data points we're happy to share:

Total number of Impressions of our advertisements over the past year:
243,023
Total number of "clicks" to the foundation website at www.lifesbigwin.com over the past year:
22,170

Those impressions, and especially the click-throughs, give us hope that we are "planting seeds" and making a difference in honor of our Chan. We thank you for supporting the cause and are grateful to you for sharing Chan's story and raising awareness of CTE especially in young athletes.

03/10/2023

Today we celebrate the life of our friend Mac Parkman on his birthday! In honor of Mac, we’re showing our support and wearing our . This initiative honors the memory of Mac, who was colorblind and fondly remembered for his habit of wearing mismatched socks. Mac’s approach to life taught us to look beyond superficial details and care more about the things that matter.
By remembering him on this day, the The Mac Parkman Foundation For Adolescent Concussive Trauma] aims to spread awareness and encourage others to take action to help raise awareness of brain damage from contact sports and mental illness in children. We ask our followers to help us raise awareness by wearing your mismatched socks today and posting and tagging The Mac Parkman Foundation For Adolescent Concussive Trauma] and .

10/25/2022

"Robert Cantu, a neurosurgeon who was among the authors of that study and who has advised both amateur and professional sports leagues, told me that a player’s likelihood of developing CTE is determined not by the number of concussions suffered but by the total number of hits to the head and the cumulative years of playing tackle football.

“The risk of CTE starts after five years of football,” he said. “After 14 years, there is a tenfold risk. Eleven years seems to be the tipping point for entering the highest risk group.”

Cantu is among the advocates calling for no tackle football until high school. During a child’s early years, the brain is developing and is most vulnerable to trauma. Deferring contact football shortens the time that children are taking hits to the head and lessens their lifetime risk of CTE."

SOURCE: Washington Post

08/13/2022

“The use of race-norming in the NFL concussion settlement first came to light in a lawsuit filed by two former players in 2020”.

After the end of 'race-norming,' more than 300 Black former NFL players originally denied payments now qualify for money or league-funded medical treatment.

08/11/2022

Stefanie, a Scottsdale mom of an 8-year old boy, has done the research and talks about why she believes youth tackle football is not worth the risk.

We love and agree with Stefanie’s statement: “Now that we know better, we can do better.”

With your help and support spreading Chan’s message, we see a day when no young athlete is put at risk of tackle football-induced CTE.

For more information: www.lifesbigwin.com

If you feel compelled, please DM us a short video like Stefanie’s telling us why you’ve made the decision that youth tackle is not worth the risk.

05/06/2022

Today is "I Got You" day. This day was created to honor an amazing young man, Jason Franklin. Although Jason and Chandler didn’t know one another, they attended ASU at the same time and both lost their battles with CTE within 6 months of each other.

You can honor Jason by following their Instagram and support the Foundation by spreading a little love by doing something good today (May 6th) for someone and simply telling them “I Got You”.

From the “I Got You” Foundation’s website:
Jason Franklin lost his battle with CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) on July 14th, 2018. To honor him, we have established the "I Got You" foundation. One of Jason's favorite saying's was "I Got You." He was always there for his friends and family. We all knew that Jason "got" us. So, we knew it would be the perfect name for our foundation. We would continue his legacy by making sure those in need had someone who could say "I Got You" to them. Each May 6th (Jason's birthday) we spend the day trying to help others… trying to show them that there are people out there that “got them” and are there to help get them through their day. We deliver money, clothes, food, personal care items and toys to homeless shelters, to individual homeless people we encounter on the streets, to food banks, to animal rescue organizations, to senior care centers, to veteran care centers and to many other charitable organizations. Each year we stop and wish Jason a happy birthday in the middle of our day and let him know that we are keeping his spirit alive. Thank you Jason for giving us a way to both honor you and make your birthday a happy day for so many going forward.

https://www.jasonfranklin55.com/i-got-you-foundation.html

https://www.instagram.com/igotyoufoundation55/