Angela has been instrumental in helping bring brain injury support into rural areas

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Bo Holds one of the executive board positions providing technology services and caregiver support

Carolyn is a survivor, and one of our peer mentors, she worked with addiction as a social worker, She is a good mentor as well as an advocate and has distributed thousands of pieces of awareness information through Project Aware she is a huge asset to the network

Chris is a survivor and involve in groups in eastern washington for over a decade he as well is the current treasurer of the Pullman group

Cody is the current president of our Stevens county group as well as the region 1 rep he is a strong advocate for survivors of all disabilities

Craig has a history of residential services and program administration through contracts with DDD since his injury almost 6 years ago he has lead dozens of people to create brain injury services across the county

Danny is amazing we have worked together now for 6 years, danny is a survivor and very active in the community as well Danny is the network trainer for students at Kettle Falls High School

Dave is a long time advocate for low income services many of you may remember Dave as that crazy guy in Olympia handing out literature, last year he personally handed out over 20,000 pieces he may be extreme but when we want to have things distributed he is the man

Debbie holds several potions with other advocacy groups around here community as well, she adds much life to her groups

A little know fact about the network is that we have been working with high school students for several years in Project Green house in East Valley teaching skills in agronomy and agriculture, working with students with disabilities opening their eyes to unique oppurtunities

Diane has worked with us now for 5 years and provides support in our rural communities and is a adviser

Don has been active in coordinating trips and appointments with our legislators at the local and state level, as well as being the point man for several sporting events,

Donna is the director of people first of washington who the network is part of, PF has been a huge support, providing insurance to our members and volunteers, as well donna facilitates the pullman group which has served many people with brain injuries over the last 2 years, we are proud to be associated with such a great network who has the same philosophy that the members run there own groups, that is why our combined network offers over 60 groups in the state of washington

Dorris is the current treasure for project aware, and student services and helps keep thing in line what would we do with out her

Dr. Stanek has been a strong support of survivor lead services offering valuable input over the years, she is the current medical director of St. Luke's Rehab and has a private practice North West Medical Rehab. She is our areas brain injury specialist

She has done so many things to help the network along in western Washington such as IT work for presentation, web sites, data base work, and assisting in presentations, information and more she helps hod things together we would all be lost with out her

Gail is the adviser and teacher for several groups and classes for students looking to be come employed or continue on for advanced degrees and other educational opportunities.

Jim is the facilitator for veterans services in eastern washington and has been bringing awareness and support to veterans in his community and is working with several veterans non profit

Janna is a survivor and a social worker specializing in recreational therapies and creative expression, She has worked with the network over 5 years

Jerry is a survivor and the current Chair for the city of spokane Advocacy group and has been involved in protests, viguals and more bringing awareness to our community

Jim as be a lead from Spokane Public Schools and the teaching advisory staff for that districts program, He has been a huge support in the lives of hundreds of students and a strong supporter of self determination

John is the point person for another district and is the point of contact for E. Valleys new Family network starting this fall as well as middle school advocacy groups, John rocks

Kelly is a pace employee who makes the process for students entering some of the many self development and brain injury classes and groups, seamless and stress free, she is close to 100% she is amazing

Kevin is a strong advocate for veterans as well as one of the brain injury radio host we will be seeing lots of great things from Kevin in the future he is just starting

Larry is an incredible young man, He was the president of the Student Unite project, Larry is a survivors and our official photographer and student trainer. Larry is the Current Chair for SAM and training to support high schools students advocate and succeed.

Leah is our county advisory and is incredible and brought our county family and friends advocacy group to new height with one of the areas largest groups with around 25-35 at every meeting, and was the top supporter of the spokane rock and bowl with over 50 from their group

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Linda is a survivor and the network secretary and has been active for more than 4 years with the network

Doing transition teaching for almost 20 years she has been one of our strongest supporter of student lead groups and helped with the students unite project creating social opportunities for students with disabilities, non of what we do with students if it was for here and all the teachers

Lupe is bring many things to the movement such as systems and technologies and much more she is a resource mentor as well

Maggie support brain injury radio control panel for some shows, has presented and attended many things supporting veterans and those living with a brain injury she is a passionate person making a huge difference and can be available as a peer mentor for caregivers

Melinda is a survivor and the current secretary or our college programs

It has been Mike's job to find donations for various events and free tickets for our network members he was out for about 6 months due to a surgery but is back looking for businesses to help us with our events

Mike is the lead for veterans services in our area, he is a veteran, passionate and can be of assistance to any vet from any era.

Mike is the son of a mother with a brain injury and he himself has a disability he gets people together to walk the bloomsday marathon in spokane each year it is one of the nations biggest marathons

Nancy is a survivor and active in several groups and a huge support in helping folks get to where they want to be

Nich is on the planing committee for brain injury camp 2012 and very active in support groups in western Washington

Oscar was a tbi specific coordinator for a project in washington state till the contract changed hands, He spent 2 years getting to know our community and was a wonderful asset and wants to stay involved with our community he is wonderful

Patrick support folks in the North Idaho from resources to independent living services

Patti is the current state advocacy chair and has been to Olympia advocating to safe services of all those with disabilities as well she has been to Washington DC to advocate for the needs of the brain injury community as well Patti is the Networks top fund raiser.

Paul is working to be a resource peer mentor and is on the planning committee for brain injury camp 2012 he is a incredible advocate and person

Paul wears a hundred hats but he is the current presentment of BEST, as well as a resource mentor, has shot a public service announcement, and is changing the face of brain injury in western Washington

Penny is a survivor and one of the leading brain injury advocates in the world, she heads up several survivor ran groups and has the most active groups in western washington because of it. She was appointed by the Governor to be on the TBI Counsel, has truly connected east and west together for the first time ever, she is the founder of the networks formalized mentor program and the Director of the non profit Brain Energy Support Team

Ray is a resource peer mentor and taking the lead on project aware in western Washington which launches September 13 Ray is on fire thanks Ray

Resa is that pesky person who calls you to remind you of meetings, which most of us wouldn't remember if she didn't call she calls everyone even Craig. As well Resa was one of the key voices who testified to congress as we pasted the People First Language legislation, as well she is working with STA to make sure we have a voice in our transportation - Resa has been a strong advocate for people with disabilities in the nation for more than 2 decades now.

Roxanne has been a huge support in our advocacy services for students 18-21 for years now, and because of her leadership and teaching hundreds of lives have been transformed

Shonti is a survivor and the Vice President of the network and has been actively involved with the network and provides independent living services through our independent living center CORD - as well Shonti is a resource mentor

Tammara is the Spokane county advocacy group adviser and leads trips to Olympia every year, she has been an incredible advocate and as been with the group for 5 years now we couldn't do it with out her

Toby is a survivor from childhood, and is the current network president and a resource mentor, Toby has mentored folks for 4 years now and has been a positive influence in many lifes

Tony has been a lead in helping organize our many teams competing in hoopfest it is the world largest 3 on 3 basketball event, over 40,000 players last year, we do special Olympic teams for those with brain injury, unified that is 2 people with a brain injury and 2 with out, wheelchair and more there are over 200 teams that's over 800 participants with a disability

Travis is the current board member of veterans student services through our local colleges