April Turner
Secretary
State Head Coordinator
State TBI Program Director
Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services
April Turner is currently the State Head Injury Coordinator and State TBI Program Director for the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services. She is also the State Traumatic Brain Injury Program Director of the Federal Administration on Community Living TBI Partnership Grants, the AL TBI Navigation System, The Online Brain Injury Screening & Support System, the Statewide TBI Helpline, the State TBI Pre-Vocational Care Coordination Program and Statewide TBI/Spinal Cord Injury Trauma Registry Service Linkage System for the Lead Agency on TBI. Her agency also carries the Pediatric TBI Care Coordination Program, Alabama Head Injury Task Force, Advisory Council, The Teacher Acute Concussion Tool, and The Alabama Head and Spinal Cord Injury Trust Fund. She wrote and was awarded a 5-year Administration on Community Living Federal TBI Grant for systems change in the Behavioral Health area for individuals with TBI and a 2 -year Administration on Community Living Federal Public Health Grant for TBI Systems change in Alabama.
Ms. Turner received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Rehabilitation from Troy University and then went on to receive her Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling and Vocational Evaluation from Auburn University. She began her work for Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services in 2001 and was recently honored in 2023 to present to the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Forum on TBI in Washington D.C.
