We’ve posted the info below on the ABOUT page on this website, so for future reference, please see that page.
What follows below is a detailed bio/background account of Daniel Taylor in chronological order — professionally, personally and medically — so you can get a more complete understanding of who he is and the journey he’s traveled so far:
DANIEL TAYLOR BACKGROUND
(Chronological)
• Graduated high school, 1989
• Traveled to Leeds, England on LDS Mission, January 1990; returned home from England in end of June of 1991 due to sickness (completed honorable mission)
• Brain tumor removal, September 1991; hospitalized for two months, during which time endured other surgeries trying to treat decompression of the eyes, which left him blind
• Rehab from brain tumor (re-learned how to walk, extensive speech work over the following year)
• Attended Blind Center-Utah State in Salt Lake City from April-June 1992
• Dixie College, August-September, 1992; transferred to Weber State University.
• Attended school at Weber State, January 1993 – March 1996; graduated with an Associates Degree
o While attending school at Weber State, worked with autistic and deaf children at Communities Treatment Alternatives
• Worked at Weber County Health with felony-convictioned sex offenders
• Interned at Millcreek correctional facility for teens
• Worked at Brightway Adolescent Hospital, a drug and alcohol psychiatric treatment facility in St. George, Utah
• Attended Dixie College for a semester while at Brightway
• Attended Southern Utah University in Cedar City, Utah
• Earned Bachelor Degrees in Sociology and Child Development with emphasis in criminology and middle age childhood from Southern Utah University; graduated with Honors, May 1999; member of the Honors Society
• Married, Sept. 17, 1999
• Worked at RISE for foster care providers, 2000
• Began work at Copper Hills Youth Center, a residential treatment center in the behavioral unit Psychiatric Hospital, St. George, Utah
• When that unit closed, transferred to Cross Creek Residential Treatment Center until 2001
• Worked with Dessert Hills Therapeutic Center (Steve and Barbra Chillo) as a substance abuse counselor, 2001
• Started Integrity House in March 2001; first client began treatment in July
• Stepped away from day-to-day operations at Integrity House and began working as a consultant, June 2012 to June 2013
OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF NOTE:
• Helped open other residential treatment centers through Utah and Arizona
• Worked for Southwest Behavioral Health Center – a licensed acute therapeutic foster home
• Cub Scout Master, 2004; Cub Scout leader 2011-2012
• Expert witness in different law cases dealing with various troubled youth centers
• Recognized in Who’s Who book in 2008 for being a contributor to society
• Proud father of five children ranging from 14-3 (14, 12, 9, 6, and 3)