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April 07, 2006

Edgar Wiggins Wins MFP Outstanding Merit Award

The Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry announces that Mr. Edgar K. Wiggins was chosen to receive its 2006 Outstanding Merit Award. Mr. Wiggins is Executive Director of Baltimore Crisis Response, Inc., a comprehensive, psychiatric crisis service that provides mobile crisis services, community-based crisis residential alternatives, community-based addictions treatment services and a hotline counseling and referral service.

There were several nominees of high quality, making this a very difficult decision. The board was particularly impressed with Mr. Wiggins's work creating videotaped programs that have aired on Baltimore Cable Access and Comcast’s Education Channel; participating in live radio talk shows including Two Way Talk, Fresh Focus and The Mark Steiner Show; and giving public presentations to a variety of audiences from university to police, clergy and families. His efforts actively promote mental illness awareness and de-stigmatize mental illness. The board also valued his outreach to the minority community.

The award will be presented to Mr. Wiggins at the Maryland Psychiatric Society annual meeting on April 27, 2006.

The annual Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry Outstanding Merit Award recognizes a worthy endeavor in Maryland that accomplishes one or more of the following:

• Increases public awareness and understanding of mental illness
• Enhances the quality of care for psychiatric illness
• Reduces the stigma of mental illness

The award carries a $500 prize.

Posted by admin at April 7, 2006 11:30 AM