Honors/Awards

Honors

  • Lancaster Recovery Task Force, Recognition Award, “for her years of services and dedication to promoting recovery in mental health,” 2010
  • Mental Health Association of Lancaster County, Educator of the Year, 2006
  • The Arc of Lancaster County, Board President’s Annual Award “for the consummate professional who keeps the human in human services,” 2001

Awards

  • Central Pennsylvania Apprise Magazine Writing Contest. Second Prize, Short Story: “Writer’s Block,” 1997
  • Central Pennsylvania Apprise Magazine Writing Contest. Certificate of Merit. Short Story: “Of Cabbages and Kings,” 1995
  • National Association of Counties Achievement Award. “Lancaster County Mental Health/Mental Retardation Annual Report,” 1994
  • Central Pennsylvania Apprise Magazine Writing Contest. First Prize for Fiction.  Short Story: “The Ice Cream Man,” 1993
  • National Association of Mental Health Information Officers Communications Award.  National Second Place.  Regional First Place. Events/Campaigns Category – The Logo Contest. 1991
  • National Association of Mental Health Information Officers Communications Award.  National Second Place. Regional Second Place. One-time publications/Booklets. “A Little Help from our Friends.” 1990
  • National Association of Mental Health Information Officers Communications Award.  Regional Third Place. Newsletters/Desktop Published – One Color. “The MH/MR Family News.” 1990
  • Keystone Press Award.  Second Place, Feature Story.  Weekly Newspaper Category.  Pennsylvania  Newspaper  Publishers Association and the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors. 1986