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CWLA Announces National Service Awards to Kids Who Have Helped Other Kids
Lainee Burnette of New Haven, Connecticut a winner
For more information, contact
Joyce Johnson
Phone: 804/492-4519
Cell: 703/980-7641
E-mail: jjohnson@cwla.org
February 20, 2009, Arlington, VA -- The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) announced the annual recipients of its peer-to-peer service award. The "Kids to Kids" National Service Award is given in recognition of youth who have reached out to help their peers in the community.
Lainee Burnette of New Haven, Ct; Jonathan Freeman of Tampa, FL; and the Bonnie Brae Knights Drum Corps of Liberty Corner, NJ will be presented with the awards at CWLA's National Conference in Washington, DC on February 25, 2009.
Lainee Burnette is a 15 year-old high school student. She has faced and overcome many obstacles in her young life, but despite the struggles, her determination and motivation to be a success has driven her to be a role model and advocate for other struggling children. She loves to write and wrote a winning essay about her neighborhood and overcoming homelessness that was published in the New Haven Independent newspaper.
Lainee is a student at Hopkins School in New Haven, CT where she maintains an A average. She is the recipient of a full scholarship and for the past two years has received additional awards based on merit. She has a dream in which she hopes to see come true when she attends Harvard University to become a plastic surgeon.
She and has been a tutor for 7-9th graders for the past two years teaching math and history. She is active in her community and has been involved in efforts to build a new library in the Columbus Avenue section of New Haven.
"Today's youth are faced with so many challenges we feel it is important to acknowledge and honor those that have selflessly taken the time to care for and about the needs of others," said Christine James-Brown, President and CEO of CWLA.
Lainee was nominated for this award by Tiwana Dennis of The Connection, Inc. in Middletown, CT.
The Connection is a Connecticut based non-profit human services and community development agency. The Connection, Inc. was formed in 1972 as a community response to the devastation being wrought on families and communities from the problems of substance abuse, dependency, addiction, crime, poverty and neglect. The Connection was one of Connecticut's first agencies to initiate community-based treatment programs. We strive to offer the community a chance to recognize the power and benefits of caring for people and supporting their ability to grow.
Since 1920, The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) has been the nation's pre-eminent membership-based organization dedicated to ensuring that disadvantaged and vulnerable children are protected from harm and have the tools and resources they need to grow into the healthy and happy adults we want them to become. CWLA is the trusted authority for professionals who work with children and the only national organization with public and private member agencies working across all sectors of the children's services field.
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