The Children's Advocacy Centers of Cameron and Willacy Counties received a $490,000 grant from Toyota’s Way Forward Fund.

The money will be used to boost awareness of traumatic brain injury in local schools, as well as with law enforcement and the medical community.

“We know that a lot of our children are physically abused — maybe law enforcement doesn't know what to ask in that exam, maybe the medical community doesn't know that they can do extra,” Children's Advocacy Centers of Cameron and Willacy Counties Executive Director Martha Martínez said.

The non-profit will work with schools in Brownsville, Port Isabel, and Los Fresnos.