Awards
Over the years, Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc. (ISA) has been the proud
recipient of many awards, including the National Safety Council's
"Distinguished Service to Safety Award" and the AAMR “Presidential
Award.”
ISA is also the proud sponsor of several other awards, including:
Direct Support Professionals Recognition (DSP) Award
About the Award:
ISA presents its Direct Support Professionals Recognition Award
to direct support professionals who demonstrate excellence, creativity
and commitment to assisting and enhancing the lives of individuals
with disabilities. Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc. is pleased to have
created and sponsored this award over the last seven years and looks
forward to another great year of Supporting Those Who Support Others™.
Without competent and caring direct support staff, quality outcomes
for people with disabilities would be limited, and achieving interdependence
would be increasingly difficult. This is a great opportunity to
recognize a direct support professional from your agency.
Presented & Sponsored by:
Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc.
Criteria for Selection:
Self-Determination – Nominee
demonstrates commitment to supporting self-determination, self-esteem,
and meaningful choices for people with intellectual disabilities.
Leadership – Nominee exhibits leadership
qualities with peers and within his or her work environment. Nominee
serves as a role model for others.
Inclusion – Nominee facilitates inclusion
of people with intellectual disabilities within all aspects of community
life.
Professional Development – Nominee demonstrates
commitment to his or her professional development by continuing
to seek knowledge and gain skills in the field.
Provision of Direct Support – Nominee provides
direct support in a manner that respects the dignity, culture and
rights of people with intellectual disabilities. Nominee must be
currently employed for a minimum of one year with one of our insured
service providers, and must work in a direct care position.
Click
here to view the winners of 2006.
Dr. Robert Guthrie Award for Advances in Biochemical &
Molecular Genetics
About the Award:
This award is sponsored by ISA and presented yearly
by the American Association on Mental Retardation’s Health
Promotion and Disability Prevention Committee at the AAIDD Annual
Conference in honor of Dr. Robert Guthrie.
Dr. Robert Guthrie was the developer of significant newborn screening
tests for inborn errors of metabolism, using the novel specimen
of dried whole blood on filter paper. Among the most well-known
of these tests is that for phenylketonuria (PKU). Since the early
1960s, when the PKU test was initiated, more than 300 million children
around the world have been tested for PKU. Approximately 30,000
cases of mental retardation due to PKU have been prevented because
of this testing, accompanied by early treatment. More recently,
the dried blood specimen has been adapted for use in molecular studies
of disease, demonstrating one of the continuing contributions of
Dr. Guthrie’s early work.
Presented by:
The American Association for Intellectual and Developmental
Disabilities (AAIDD, formerly known as AAMR)
Website: http://www.aamr.org
Sponsored by:
Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc.
Criteria for Selection:
The successful candidate should be an established scientist
who has made significant contributions to the prevention of genetic
disorders through the use of biochemical or molecular genetic technologies,
or a combination of both. The contribution may be through the management
of a successful screening program for genetic disease, through the
development of new diagnostic tests for genetic disease, or through
the identification of a successful treatment for a genetic disease.
Irv Rutman Award
About the Award:
The Irvin Rutman Award is presented annually at USPRA’s
annual convention in recognition of the commendable contributions
made by Dr. Irvin D. Rutman, Founding President of USPRA and recipient
of the 1991 Beard Award. Dr. Rutman was the Executive Director of
Horizon House for over 30 years and was the founder of the Matrix
Research Institute. He has played a key role in the development
of the psychosocial profession and continues to play an active role
on the USPRA Board. The United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Association (USPRA) and Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc. (ISA) present
the Irv Rutman Award each year to an executive director of a psychosocial
program who demonstrates effective leadership in the psychosocial
rehabilitation field and promotes the mission of USPRA. This award
is presented at USPRA’s annual convention.
Presented by:
The United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
(USPRA)
Phone: 410-789-7054 · Fax: 410-789-7675 · Web: www.uspra.org
Sponsored by:
Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc.
Criteria for Selection:
• The nominee must be a current executive director who is
a member of USPRA and active at the local level.
• The nominee must have clearly demonstrated leadership in
the field in administering a psychosocial program.
The selection shall be based on contributions in the following areas.
• Exemplary management
• Leadership
• Board development
• Communication
• Quality programming of a psychosocial program.
Commitment to Quality Award
About the Award:
The Private Providers Association of Texas (PPAT) and
Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc. (ISA) present the Commitment to Quality
Award each year to an executive director of a PPAT member agency
who best represents the overall mission of PPAT in the category
of quality management
The mission of PPAT is to:
Represent and assist private organizations and other individuals
in the development and provision of community-based services to
persons with developmental disabilities. Deliver services of the
highest quality in order to meet the needs of those individuals
served. Propose and support initiatives which encompass PPAT’s
beliefs as well as the wants and desires of the individuals served;
and Advocate for a service delivery system that ensures responsible
funding levels for programs and services provided by PPAT members
and to maximize the receipt of federal dollars utilizing all available
resources.
Total quality management (TQM) calls for a continued process of
quality checks within an organizational system, to be followed by
continual improvements, the development of a quality culture, and
an ongoing involvement with customers and shareholders to ascertain
wants and needs. Quality culture is composed of employee involvement,
a strong leadership, and consensus of commitment to achieving customer
satisfaction.
Presented by:
The Private Providers Association of Texas (PPAT)
Phone: 512-452-8188 · Fax: 512-458-3078 · Web: www.ppat100.com
Sponsored by:
Irwin Siegel Agency, Inc.
Criteria for Selection:
You or someone else who knows your work must submit
a nomination to the PPAT office by the specified date. The nomination
form must describe your management philosophy and practices, which
should demonstrate the nominee’s commitment to total quality
management in the delivery of effective services, efficiency of
organizations, responsiveness to consumers, risk awareness, and
leadership.
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