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2009 Cecilia Weber Advocacy Award
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goes to Heather Martin
Heather is a BA social worker at Wabash Valley. Her role is an "impatient social worker." She monitors admissions and works with patients and families with discharge planning. She is a tireless worker on behalf of consumers. She has been the heart and soul of Crisis Intervention Team training effort. Each year, she organizes the forty-hour curriculum, solicits volunteer presenters and makes critical presentations, herself, over the course of the training. She has worked closely with our Justice Project, particularly as a liaison with the Tippecanoe County Jail. She has been an invaluable asset to NAMI-WCI's Community Efforts. |
The Cecilia Weber Advocacy Award is presented by NAMI-WCI annually to the individual or individuals who have, through their community efforts, significantly improved the life circumstances of the seriously mentally ill and their families.
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2008 Chico Hatke - Crisis Intervention
Officer of the Year Award
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goes to Sergeant John Yestrebsky
Sergeant John Yestrebsky is on the Lafayette Police Department and has been since February 2004. Sergeant John Yestrebsky has a long and distinguished record of assisting families and of bringing consumers to safety and treatment. The Governing Board of Directors of The National Alliance on Mental Illness is very pleased to designate Sergeant John Yesterbsky as Crisis Intervention Officer of the Year for 2008.
Thank you John!
Consumers, family members and all of us are in your debt. |
The Chico Hatke - Crisis Intervention Officer of the Year Award is presented annually to an Officer who has shown outstanding skill and dedication in assisting members of our community who are in psychiatric crisis.
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Awards won by NAMI-WCI
| The Patricia Wheaton Consumer Award |
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Congratulations, Julia!
The Director of NAMI-WCI's Peer-to-Peer Program, Julia Kauffman, wins statewide consumer award! Julia is this year's recipient of the 2006 "Patricia Wheaton Consumer Award." The honor was presented at NAMI-Indiana's Annual Conference in Indianapolis. The Wheaton award is given annually "In recognition of an individual who, despite living with mental illness, displays exemplary courage not only in staying the course to recovery but also in educating and helping others to understand and to overcome." For Julia, this is a well earned and eminently deserved award.
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| NAMI Indiana named NAMI West Central Indiana 2009 Affiliate of the Year |
| Journal & Courier's George Award |
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Dr. William G. LeFurgy, the NAMI-WCI Executive Director, received the 2005 "George Award" from The Journal & Courier newspaper for his work in bringing the Crisis Intervention Team to greater Lafayette.
In 2002, as a program consultant to NAMI-WCI, Bill helped secure a Community Action Grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for $133,000 for the planning and implementation of training police officers how to respond to individuals in psychiatric crisis. Lieutenant Chico Hatke of the Lafayette Police Department said;
"CIT comes into play almost daily. It has saved our community thousands of dollars by getting people appropriate treatment rather than incarceration."Bill LeFurgy's other volunteer activities include; serving on the Board of the Civic Theater, President of the Wabash Area Lifetime Learning Association and President of the Tippecanoe Council of Aging.
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