CPD Employee Receives Award
Reprinted with permission of
The Herald Journal
The Brain Inury Association of Utah gave Sue Dubois its 2009 Professional Advocate Award for her work to bolster services for Utahns who have sustained traumatic brain injury.
Dubois is the community TBI coordinator for the Utah Traumatic Brain Injury Partership Grant at Utah State University's Center for persons with Disabilities.
She worked with community members and a team of CPD staff to improve the access to services for people who have sustained a TBI. Dubois set up work groups in Logan, Brigham City and St. George to discover the needs and concerns of people who have personal and professional experience with these injuries. From those efforts, communities have begun to address the needs they identified in Utah.
Dubois and other team members have worked to train health, mental health and vocational rehabilitation professionals about TBI.
In Utah, an estimated 44,000 people have sustained a TBI. These injuries do not always respond to typecal treatments and may go undetected for years.
