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March 02, 2009

2009 Outstanding Merit Award Nominations Open Until March 2

The annual Outstanding Merit Award is given tor 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

Nominations for this award of $500 are being invited from the entire Maryland community. A short nomination form must be submitted with a cover letter by March 2, 2009, to the Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry, 1101 Saint. Paul Street, Suite 305, Baltimore, MD 21202. The form is available as PDF or Word document.

The 2008 winner was the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies project at Child Center and Adult Services, Inc. in Gaithersburg. Their measures to document the progress of people in the program and their efforts to work with mothers at risk to prevent future mental illness were particularly impressive. In
addition, an Honorable Mention was awarded to the work of the New Vision of Hope Program at Gaudenzia Foundation, Inc. in Baltimore, which provides outstanding services to a very difficult population of dual diagnosis patients with substance abuse and mental illness as well as many with
criminal backgrounds.

Posted by admin at March 2, 2009 12:25 PM