| The NCLC 24th Annual Lewis Hine Awards |
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| Thursday, 02 April 2009 10:14 |
Several New Yorkers were among those honored by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) at its 24th Annual Lewis Hine Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 29th. The 2009 Distinguished Service Awards Honoree was John McIvor, Executive Director and Founder of the nonprofit “Summer on the Hill.” This nonprofit provides an after-school enrichment program for promising public school children in grades 2-12 from the Bronx and upper Manhattan. The program is sponsored in large part by the Horace Mann School, a private school in Riverdale, NY, which lends its facilities to the program. Among the recipients of the the 2009 Lewis Hine Awards were Jack Brennan of Family Focus Adoption Services in Little Neck and Tyrone Green of Goodwill Industries of Greater NY/NJ. The awards Lewis Hine Awards recognize the unheralded professionals and volunteers who devote extraordinary time and energy to helping children and youth. Brennan is the Associate Director for the Waiting Child program at Family Focus Adoption Services, which serves families throughout the New York Metropolitan area, upstate New York, and around the country. He has used his own experience as an adoptive child, working at a recreational treatment center for foster children, and his becoming an adoptive father to create the thirty-year-old Waiting Child program, which launched the “Empowered Transition” process to help children and youth and their prospective families develop relationships that lead to successful adoption. Green is a community youth services sports coordinator at Goodwill Industries of Greater NY/NJ. As a coach and mentor, he works with inner-city teenagers to help them stay off of drugs and encourage them to stay in school. In basketball circles, he is known as the New York City recreational coach who helped nurture such stars as Chamique Holdsclaw of the WBNA and Joakim Noah of the NBA, back when they were kids. In addition, David A. Paterson and Michelle Paige Paterson, Governor and First Lady of New York were honored with the 2009 Ronald H. Brown Award. The awards ceremony was held at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. The Ceremony Chair was Tracey Brown James, a partner at The Cochran Law Firm and Ronald H. Brown's daughter. |
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