About Us

After being overwhelmed on a daily basis by phone calls from parents needing help we could not deny the obvious need to make the wealth of information locked up in Linda's head available on a much broader scale. The question was...how? After identifying the need it wasn't long before we realized the best way to do this would be through a website where the information would become readily available to the entire public (and Linda could take some time to have the phone surgically removed from her head). It is our sincere hope that the work we have done will be an invaluable resource for those seeking help in navigating the expansive world of special needs.

Linda Jorgensen

Linda has been working with individuals with special needs since 1976 when she began working in a sheltered workshop for individuals with disabilities as a work coach, bus aide, and general assistant. 3 years later Linda enlisted in the Utah Army National Guard where she received training in combat medicine, operating room management and operations, as a surgical technician, central supply technician, in public health implementation and management NCO, and direct patient care. She has served as an NCO/NCOIC working as an organizational manager, instructor, instructor trainer, program evaluator, clinic coordinator, emergency medical technician (licensed EMT), and as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) providing direct patient care in multiple treatment settings. Linda has worked as a civilian EMT for Salt Lake County, a safety coordinator for an international corporation and as an agency staff relief nurse in many hospitals in Salt Lake County.

Linda received certification as a Disability Advocate from Utah State University in the Fall of 2016. She studied nursing and graduated from the Military Academy of Health Sciences at Fort Sam Houston, Texas and Utah Technical College in Taylorsville. She maintains a current Utah State LPN license and is currently an "unconventional nontraditional mature student" pursuing a degree in Health Sciences at Weber State University. She is a volunteer parent mentor/navigator assisting new parents in obtaining services and information unique to their specific situations and functions as an independent facilitator/coordinator for families, military and civilian, with unusual circumstances needing assistance in gaining services and benefits.

In 2007 Linda wrote several chapters of the current Utah State Self Administered Services (SAS) Parent Guidebook that is distributed for parent use, statewide.

Linda has assisted several public entities in making safe accessibility changes to existing buildings to increase safe access for individuals in the community with special accessibility needs. These include several church buildings in 3 Utah Counties, school facilities in 2 Utah School Districts and a large number of private homes on the Wasatch Front.

Personally, Linda has a 32-year-old daughter who, for the first 7 years of her life, did not have a firm diagnosis. After calling it "Madison Syndrome" during those early years she was placed under a revised diagnosis for insurance purposes. Madison's diagnosis is now "Cerebral Palsy - secondary to unknown etiology". Linda and Madison, together, have worked with Easter Seals of Utah, University of Utah's School of Architecture and Design, local Independent Living programs and several other community and military family organizations across the state and Nationwide.

Linda has a son, daughter, two step-daughters, two step-sons-in-law, a daughter-in-law and 5 grandchildren. She currently lives in the Intermountain West with her (long suffering) husband Clark, and daughter Madison. Linda continues to support her husband, a newly retired Air Force Reservist working locally as a contractor for the Army Reserve.