Josephine Sullivan
CEO & Board Chair
About
With over 100 volunteers from various churches, schools, and groups, she organized and implemented a sixteen-hour-a-day program in her home that she maintained for four years. The program included “patterning,” seven days a week designed by the institutes Doman-Delacato technique and NASA, which had promised neurological retraining pathways. Most of all, the program brought Hope. Josephine was an innovator and sought to assist her daughter by inventing an orthotic device designed to support her daughter’s head, neck, and upper torso, improving her respiration and quality of life.
Josephine, with her family, worked with Senator Chris Harris and Toby Goodman as a Legislative Advocate for the disabled’s rights, which took six years and three legislations to pass. In 1999, Senate Bill 731 was passed and signed into law by then-Governor George W. Bush.
In 2017, Josephine was actively developing a guide to identifying terminology related to traumatic brain injury in acute care settings in the United States, with members from around the world attending the Galveston Brain Injury Conference.
In 2018, Josephine was selected to serve on the United States Tennis Association, Texas, as a Developmental Committee Member for Adaptive and Wheelchair Tennis. She is also a Sponsor through the foundation for the Galveston Independent School District and Special Olympics TX Unified Champion School Banner Program. Josephine is a Certified and Trained Special Olympics TX Coach in Adaptive Sports.
Josephine is involved with her community as a Reader and Eucharistic Minister of her strong Catholic Faith. Josephine volunteers at the University of Texas Medical Branch, working with Moody Neurorehabilitation and Tideway Traumatic Brain Injury residents. Josephine is a native Galvestonian and is a 1980 graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University. She completed her undergraduate degree with a Bachelor of Science in Health & Education.
In 2017, she founded, along with her family, The Christina Sullivan Foundation in memory of her loving daughter.
CONTACT INFO
Phone : (409) 209-0581
Email: josephine@tcgsf.org