Volunteer Leadership and CHADD
Affiliate Awards
Each year three exemplary volunteers are chosen
to receive the 'Volunteer Leadership' and two CHADD grassroots
affiliates (chapters/support groups) are selected to receive
the 'Affiliate of the Year' awards.
Please visit the CHADD chapter
locator to locate the group closest to you and please
thank your volunteers for everything that they do on behalf of
CHADD and their community. They are all very
generous and helpful to thousands of people throughout the
country every day.
Provided below is a list of all of the
winners.
The 2008 volunteer leadership
award recipients are:
Pamper Garner Crangle, Volunteer Coordinator
Chattanooga CHADD, TN
No one else is quite
like Pamper. Pamper leads by example, she is first to take the lead but
will step aside to let others shine. She encourages new thoughts and
believes everyone has something to offer.
Pamper is very
committed and passionate about helping people. Under Pamper's leadership
CHADD of Chattanooga is on the forefront publicly. She spearheaded conferences with Dr. Ned
Hallowell and Dr. Russell Barkley as the key speakers.
Through the
coordination ofthese conferences,Pamper hasmade links to our local
media, which included the recruitment ofnewscasters and T.V.
owners to the boardof directorsand in the conference planning
committees. She has forged a bond with local educational
entities by inviting Chattanooga State Technical Community College to
partner with Chattanooga
CHADD. Pamper has
writtenand received a grant from the
Community Foundation, received
conference funding and continued support from the Lung
Association and Women of
Distinction as well as remaining involved in the healthcare industry in
effort to receive backing from Independent Healthcare
Properties.
Pamper has a
gift of making everyone feel special and part of the group. Pamper comes
across as your next door neighbor that you can talk to about anything
and makes sure that everyone knows they are not alone when it comes to
the struggles of AD/HD. She has taken away the stigma associated with
AD/HD and is a force of change in our community.
Natalie just
wanted a support group for her 8-year-old daughter but has turned a new
satellite into 4 active and exciting support groups - adult, boys, girls
and parents in less than 5 months.
Natalie's
ebullient nature exudes in front of a group and has proven contagious!
She has a knack for getting volunteers motivated as she speaks from the
heart about AD/HD and the plethora of issues associated in living with
it.
She offers
generously her time and her abundant capabilities to help others! She
gives and then gives some more - always aware that someone else needs
help and finding the time to care.
Natalie
changed the Metro Philly community. She has used the schools to generate enthusiasm and
unheard of first-time success through outreach in the community. When
Natalie sets goals, there is no doubt she can and has accomplished them!
Metro Philadelphia will soon begin outreach to the underserved NE
Philadelphia area.
Edward organized and has contributed time and
leadership to the community for over 20 years. He has volunteered to
teach classes, organize groups, collect material, schedule trainings for
additional counselors in our district and arranged for the funding of
that training. He has sat on the Best Practices Board for AD/HD with
Intermountain Health Care and influenced the training of Family Doctors
and Mental Health Professionals in Utah. He designed follow-up forms,
taught testing and evaluation classes for counselors, and involved most
of the counselors in the two school districts in the Ogden area. He
helped to form a local CHADD group with volunteer parents and arrange at
least four trainings a year for Parent to Parent classes and is on a
volunteer basis for teaching an AD/HD information class at the local
hospital. He has almost single-handedly been the impetus behind any
AD/HD material, workshops and conferences distributed and provided to
parents and teachers over the last 20 to 30 years in this area. Besides
all of this, he lives with AD/HD and manages it successfully in his own
life and that of his children. What an inspiration for those who would
be discouraged and need a great example. Every year he still makes all
the schedules, arranges the teacher, volunteers himself and publishes
the flyers to be distributed for parents and teachers. He schedules the
locations and has arranged for credits to be awarded to those who
attend. There wouldn't have a program in Ogden, Utah without Ed.
Edward contacted people in the community services
to work on a board to collaborate in getting with parents to help and
advertise the available parenting classes provided by the district and
the hospital.
Edward volunteered to
work with the parents who were referred for help in the schools by
meeting with them individually and reviewing adaptations for their
child. Sometimes lasting two hours for the first meeting Ed gets
frustrated parents on track with some good ideas. He has been doing this
for the entire school district.
He has
influenced the medical community to respond and support the concerns and
testing information provided by the schools, helping us work as a team
to help the families. Ed continues to try to keep the
channels open for the parents in the Ogden area by supplying the
information they need.
THE 2008 CHADD AFFILIATE OF YEAR AWARD
RECIPIENTS ARE:
At Metropolitan Philadelphia, all families’
needs are met with opportunities are provided for socialization, support
and information sharing for all:
o Parents,
o Adults
o Girls
with AD/HD
o Boys w/ADHD
They work with school districts, support the PA
CHADD Legislative Advocacy Work, work with area special education
attorneys, co-sponsored a conference with Bucks County CHADD and work
with Children's Hospital in Philadelphia.
Volunteers support the organization in a myriad
of ways and have begun to form grant-writing committees, policy-action
groups and a committee to present to school district associations and
the public. They are a multicultural, economically diverse group
committed to raising awareness and providing opportunities for adults
and children affected by AD/HD.
“My daughter now feels part of something instead of
different from all the other girls, which is how she used to describe
herself. My sons have had the opportunity to mentor boys who struggle
much more than they do with AD/HD and have gained self-esteem and
self-awareness in the process. Having all the children meet and interact
with successful adults with AD/HD has broadened their horizons as to
their own potential. In addition, meeting other parents and
gaining strength from the fact that I am not alone on mornings when I
feel like I've run a marathon by 8:00 am. Finally, recognizing and
being treated for my own AD/HD, being proud of my accomplishments and
learning that I can do even more through the Adult Support Group, has
changed my life. “
The chapter has a contract with the Department
of Social and Health Services to pay for their clients to attend P2P
courses. The coordinator, Pam Glidden, has worked with some of the local
school IEP team members, sharing information from the P2P program in
efforts to inform the local school educators about AD/HD and Executive
Function skills and how they can impact student's education.
The chapter tries very
hard to be active about recruiting. They even managed at the beginning
of this year's chapter election to recruit a new Chapter Secretary!
Volunteers receive constant recognition at every meeting. The Board of
Directors is a closely-knit team, almost an extended family. They seem
to manage, encourage, and support each other. They do recognize Pam
Glidden as the group leader, but they truly do almost as much as Pam
does to ensure that the chapter succeeds!
The chapter, with only
2 active volunteers besides Pam, hosts twice a year, Parent to Parent
courses. They have made a commitment to provide a high-quality course,
and although there are only 3 of them, they have managed to live up to
that commitment. They were honored and thrilled, this past Spring, to
discover that one of the most recent P2P course participants had written
a letter to the CHADD National office raving about the high quality of
the course and the great impact it has had on her family. Over time,
they have condensed the P2P course down, without deleting any materials,
into a 4-session course. They still provide home-made refreshments, plus
coffee, tea, cocoa, and bottled water. They provide little fun trinkets
to participants when they complete their homework assignments. They have
developed and implemented a graduation ceremony, complete with
decorations and special cupcakes decorated with graduation decorations
to show participants how proud we are of their commitment.
They have, this past
year, made a change so that they now offer people who phone the chapter
a real person to speak to. Because of this one change, they have
discovered that their meeting attendance & chapter membership have
both grown.
This chapter has become an extended
family to participants. The community is becoming more aware daily, that
they are here and, what they have to offer. A local public school
arranged for a private grant to allow one of their parents to attend the
next P2P course. They are a small group, but feel that they are now
accomplishing more than they have for years because of the dedication
and efforts of the current board members!
Previous CHADD Volunteer Leadership Award
Winners
1993
Shari Bohnet
CHADD of Wayne & Oakland Counties, MI
Becky Booth
CHADD of NW Suburban
Chicago, IL
Shirley Colby
CHADD of Northern Massachusetts & Southern New
Hampshire, NH
Maureen Gill
CHADD of Northern Virginia, VA
1994
Lynn Harris
CHADD of St. John‘s County, FL
Kathy Meredith
CHADD of Southeast Wisconsin, WI
Mary Robertson
CHADD of the Bluegrass, KY
1995
Guy & Susan
Dunham
CHADD of York
County, PA
Beth Mollenkamp
CHADD of Greater St. Louis, MO
Marie Maran & Barbara DuPont
CHADD of Westchester
County, NY
1996
Jeanne Hughes
CHADD of Contra Costa County, CA
Sharron Rossi
CHADD of Nassau County, NY
Ellen Kosh
CHADD of Upper Bux-Mont, PA
1997
Rae Hemphill
CHADD of Northern Virginia, VA
Beth Kaplanek
CHADD of Suffolk County, NY
Linda Smith
CHADD of Northern Utah, UT
1998
Roseann Egan
East Aurora/Southtowns CHADD, NY
Kay M. Gilmore
Conejo Valley CHADD, CA
Belynda L. Gauthier
Louisiana Capital Area CHADD, LA
1999
Betty Barfield
Mid-Missouri CHADD, MS
Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D.
Montgomery County CHADD,
MD
Julia Rivera
Dorado, PR CHADD, PR
2000
Linda Brauer
Grand Rapids CHADD, MI
Barbara O’Donnell
West Virginia Chapter of CHADD, WV
Michael Straughan
Central Arkansas Chapter of CHADD, AK
2001
Catherine Salva
Caguas, Puerto Rico CHADD, PR
Carol Watkins, MD
Greater Baltimore CHADD, MD
2002
Lew Mills, Ph.D., MFT
CHADD of Northern
California, CA
Barbara Hawkins
Greater Baltimore CHADD, MD
2003
Catherine Adams
Northern Virginia CHADD, VA
Lea Burnside
West Virginia Chapter of CHADD, WV
2004
Pam Glidden
South King County Chapter of CHADD, WA
Barbara Hawkins and Linda Spencer
Co-Coordinators
Baltimore Area Chapter of CHADD, MD
2005
Cindy Chapman
Kern County, CA
Alexis Norin
Fort Smith, AK
Vicki Rogers
Nassau County, NY
2006
Judy Marshall
Treasurer,
Membership Chair, Secretary, Parent To Parent Training Chair
Northern California
Chapter
Beverlee
Kell
Coordinator
Marin County CHADD, CA
Gina Pera
Coordinator
Silicon Valley CHADD,
CA
2007 - Volunteer Leadership Award
Winners
Melanie Hatch
Coordinator
CHADD of Utah,
UT
Susan Coppel
Volunteer
Columbus, Ohio
Satellite of CHADD, OH
Joan Helbing
Coordinator, Appleton Area CHADD
The 2007 CHADD affiliate of year award
recipients are:
Caguas, Puerto Rico Chapter
Suffolk County CHADD Chapter, New York
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