Palm Health Foundation Campaign Spotlights the Power of Community Collaboration
More than 250 community members joined October’s Train the Brain events
to celebrate the launch of the Brain Health Network
Palm Health Foundation’s October 2026 Train the Brain community health campaign celebrated the launch of the Brain Health Network, a community-wide collective that includes everyone with a role in advancing local brain health, from clinicians, researchers, educators, and caregivers to residents and community advocates. Themed “Connected Along the Brain Coast,” the campaign drew more than 250 community members to free experiential and educational events hosted by Brain Health Network partners. The events promoted lifelong brain health and reinforced that taking care of the brain is just as important as taking care of the body.
Throughout Palm Beach County, residents explored:
- How expressive arts, including drawing, poetry, music, and dance, strengthen the brain-body connection, presented by Palm Beach County NeuroArts Collaborative.
- Art and dance for brain health for adults 60 and over, with The Art of Care.
- Community, creativity, and cognitive wellness in partnership with Healthier Glades.
- Alzheimer’s, dementia, Parkinson’s, and the caregiving support available to individuals and families, in a conversation with the BeWellPBC Community Connectors.
- The path from Alzheimer’s research to treatment, and what residents can do to live well longer, presented by Florida Atlantic University Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute.
Several events showed how the arts can make brain health part of everyday life.
“If we want to talk about brain health, we have to talk about everybody, everywhere,” said Shabrae Jackson, an expressive arts facilitator and educator with The Art of Care. “The NeuroArts Collaborative, as part of the Brain Health Network, brings scientists, researchers, creative arts therapists, coaches and artists together around how the arts affect mind, body and spirit. We need tangible things that show up in everyday ways for people. The arts make brain health accessible.”
"Our 2026 Train the Brain campaign showcased the unique connections we are building along the Brain Coast, from our world-class neuroscience institutions to resident leaders, all focused on a simple idea: communities grow stronger when people have the brain health to thrive," said Patrick McNamara, president and CEO of Palm Health Foundation. "National and global leaders are joining us to advance the Brain Coast Vision because Palm Beach County has the right people, institutions and resources to make brain health a priority in our health systems, workplaces, schools and neighborhoods. We believe our community can become a model for the country and the world."
To learn more about the Brain Coast and advancing brain health in Palm Beach County, please visit palmhealthfoundation.org/our-work-advancing-brain-health.
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About Palm Health Foundation
Palm Health Foundation is Palm Beach County’s community foundation for health. With the support of donors and a focus on results, the foundation builds strong community partnerships, respects diverse opinions, advocates for its most vulnerable neighbors, and inspires innovative solutions to lead change for better health now and for generations to come. The foundation supports health equity for Palm Beach County residents of all backgrounds, heritage, education, incomes and states of well-being. Palm Health Foundation has invested more than $98 million in Palm Beach County health since 2001. For more information about Palm Health Foundation,
visit palmhealthfoundation.org or call (561) 833-6333.
