The National Foster Parent Association would like to take a moment in advance of National Foster Care Month to proudly announce the winners for our 43rd annual conference awards!
* Foster Family of the Year Award
(recognizing an outstanding and deserving foster family)
David and Brandy Fajen, Warsaw, Missouri
* State Foster Parent Association of the Year Award
(recognizing an outstanding and deserving state foster parent association)
Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association
* Local Foster Parent Association of the Year Award
(recognizing an outstanding and deserving local foster parent association)
Palm Beach County Foster and Adoptive Parent Association, West Palm Beach, Florida
* Social Worker of the Year Award
(recognizing an outstanding direct service worker in a public or private child-placing agency)
Alicia Yokum, Princeton, Illinois
* State Membership Award
(recognizing a state president with the greatest increase in NFPA membership)
Alaska
* Gordon Evans Merit Award for Service to NFPA
(recognizing noteworthy service to NFPA)
John Bertulis, Ellicott City, Maryland
* NFPA Regional Vice President Award
(recognizing a regional vice president with the greatest increase in NFPA membership)
Doris Marshall, Region 1 (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont)
The winners will be honored for this achievement Friday, June 7 at the Renaissance Long Beach Hotel in Long Beach, California. Please join us in congratulating this wonderful group that will represent NFPA during 2013.
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