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Please note: Starting Tuesday, September 6, 2011, our agency hours will be 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday

Media Contact

Jenny Johnson, Media & Education Coordinator
(801) 538-9416

New resource! Social Media: A Guide to Social Networking Applications, Their Audiences, and Their Uses

Recommendations for Reporting on Suicides guidance and examples of appropriate news stories.

News Releases and Advisories

Date
Title
Topic
1/26/2012

Avoid Brain Injuries: Don't Forget Your Helmet

 Traumatic brain injuries, sports related injuries, helmets
12/19/2011 Safe Kids Utah, ABRA Auto Body & Glass Donate Vehicle to Family in Need Safe Kids Utah, child passenger safety
10/20/2011 "All They Left Behind Were Memories" Families of teen crash victims share grief Teen driving
10/11/2011 Music Brings Healing to Utahn with Brain Injury Traumatic brain injuries
9/22/2011 Program Can Reduce Older Adult Falls by 31% Falls, older adults

Awards and Recognition

2012 Innovations in Health Education Award for the 2010 All They Left Were Memories: Stories of teen lives lost on Utah's roads memoriam. Presented by the Health Education Association of Utah.

2007 award 2008 award 2009 award
“Excellence in Collecting the Most Timely and Complete Violent Death Data” for 2007, 2008, and 2009 presented to the Utah Violent Death Reporting System by the CDC.

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs Best Practices for the Zero Fatalities: Sixteen Reasons Why Zero is the Only Acceptable Number memorial booklet

2009 AASHTO President's Award for Highway Traffic Safety presented to the Utah Teen Driving Task Force by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)


2009 Silver Award from the 16th Annual National Health Information Awards competition for the Zero Fatalities: Sixteen Reasons Why Zero is the Only Acceptable Number memorial booklet

2009 Public Health Hero Award from the Utah Public Health Association for the Zero Fatalities: Sixteen Reasons Why Zero is the Only Acceptable Number memorial booklet

2010 Bureau of Health Promotion Success Story Booklet - read examples of successful projects at the Utah Department of Health, including those relating to violence and injury prevention