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Nomination letters sent in by:
Greg Hudnall:
Cathy has been a volunteer with Hope4Utah for the past 15 years. She travels the state doing presentations to communities and church's. She has put over 50,000 miles on her car at her own expense. She volunteers with a school based crisis team and helps schools organize and develop a hope squad. She is amazing. In fact many of the people she works with has said that she is the reason their school even has a suicide prevention program. Cathy lives in Provo and has worked for Provo City School district for over 15 years. She is simple amazing and well deserving of this recognition.
Annie Nicholes
Cathy is a true inspiration to everyone that she works with. I have never seen a person dedicate so much time to betting the community. She not only works full time for Provo school district in student services, but has dedicated 15+ years to the nonprofit, Hope4Utah, to prevent youth suicide in Utah. She frequently sacrifices mornings, nights, weekends, and vacation time to respond to youth suicides, train community members on mental health, and run the non-profit. Cathy is a very humble worker and I feel that she never receives the credit that she deserves. She would NEVER ask for it. For more than two decades, Cathy has been silently saving our youth and it's time she was noticed. I beg you to seriously consider her as a candidate.
Jenny Infanger
Cathy has been amazing with her dedication to suicide prevention and Hope4Utah. She has spent 15+ years volunteering evenings and weekends doing this work and even taking vacation time to help. Whatever they ask her to do she volunteers for it. She is knowledgeable and always willing to help.
Malyce Warner
I would like to nominate Cathy Bledsoe for the KSL High 5 award because of her exceptional volunteer work with Hope4Utah, Utah suicide prevention. Cathy has spent 15+ years of her own free time- night and weekends, and even personal vacation time, assisting Hope4Utah with Utah suicide prevention. Cathy's work includes traveling around on her own dime to many cities and rural areas in Utah to assist communities after suicide attempts, and to assist communities in establishing suicide prevention measures in their schools and areas. She is an exceptional individual and always willing to help where she is needed. There is not another individual more deserving of this award then Cathy!
Kara Kresser
Cathy has been volunteering with volunteering with HOPE4UTAH for over 15 years, she takes time away from her family, and also personal time from her job using her vacation time to promote suicide prevention. She gives her time and doesn't think twice about it.
Corey Furr
Cathy cares more about people around her than anyone I know. In addition to her tireless work with Provo school district, she has spent countless hours over the last 15 years helping develop the HOPE4Utah organization. Through the development of this program, thousands of people have been trained on suicide prevention and hundreds of teenagers have received the help they needed to hold on to hope and understand that suicide is not an option. Cathy deserves this award 10 times over for the hard work that she has put into helping kids and teenagers.
Melissa Heath
Cathy Bledsoe has been a great supporter of youth suicide prevention in Utah. She has been working with Provo School District's student services for more than 20 years. she also works with Hope4Utah, a nonprofit suicide prevention organization dedicated to training teachers and community members and setting up HOPE squads in schools all throughout Utah. She has provided thousands of volunteer hours over the past 16 years on this project. She is quiet and unassuming, never wanting credit or notoriety for her great work. She is always ready to go and help train students and teachers so that schools will strengthen their suicide prevention efforts. Cathy has also been a primary coordinator in organizing and carrying out the annual UT suicide prevention conference ---held each year for the past 16 years on the BYU campus. I get a lot of emails from Cathy on weekends and vacation days----because she rarely takes time off.
