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Social Responsibility Award

The Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health Social Responsibility Award, inaugurated in 2010, is presented annually at AGPA Connect to an AGPA member, group of members, an Affiliate Society or an affiliated organization of mental health professionals who has provided an exceptional service that ultimately benefits the public-at-large (e.g. training professionals who provide group interventions, direct services to a community in need, extensive pro bono work, etc.). Anyone can submit a nominee or an applicant can be self-nominated.  The application must include the nominee(s) name, address, curriculum vita (of all individuals being nominated, if more than one) and a detailed reason for the award nomination.  Additional letters of recommendation are encouraged to accompany the award nomination.  Submissions are due to the Group Foundation office by October 1st of each year. 
 

2021 Recipients

Craig Haen, Ph.D., RDT, CGP, LCAT, FAGPA and Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA, Co-Chairs, AGPA Community Outreach Task Force received the Social Responsibility Award in recognition of the extensive work they have done as Co-Chairs of the AGPA Community Outreach Task Force over the last year in response to the pandemic and other events, as well as their work overall in responding to communities affected by trauma.

2020 Recipients

Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society received the Social Responsibility Award for their Work Group for Racial Equity.

2019 Recipient

Richard Beck, LCSW, BCD, CGP, FAGPA received the Social Responsibility Award for his outstanding community outreach activities on behalf of the group psychotherapy community in service to the public.

2018 Recipient

Jeffrey L. Kleinberg, PhD, CGP, DFAGPA received the Social Responsibility Award for his exceptional acts of service that benefit the community at large.

2016 Recipient

Nina K. Thomas, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP is receiving the Social Responsibility Award for her sustained, decades-long work in social activism and trauma work nationally and internationally.

2015 Recipient

Gaea Logan LPC-S, CGP for her sustained, decades-long work in social activism and trauma work nationally and internationally.

2014 Recipient

Kathy Rider, LCSW, BCD, CGP, FAGPA, for her sustained, decades-long work in social service organizations that serve the most vulnerable citizens in Austin, particularly her service on behalf of mental health consumers and children.

2013 Recipient

Cele Keeper, MSW, FAGPA, for her long and outstanding history of community service and volunteer leadership in the mental health and social justice arenas.  

2012 Recipient

The Boston-Threshold Group
Helmed by Patricia Doherty, Cecil Rice and Kathleen Ulman, The Boston-Threshold Group was honored for the establishment and long-standing delivery of training conferences in Northern Ireland to support and deliver on the belief that group psychotherapy can be beneficial in response to war and long-standing civil conflict.

2010 Recipient

Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP, CGP, FAGPA for her community outreach work on behalf of AGPA and the group psychotherapy community.

Please direct ALL inquiries and application materials to:

Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health
25 East 21st Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10010
Telephone: 212-477-2677  |  Toll-Free: 877-668-AGPA (2472)  |  Fax: 212-979-6627
Email: dfeirman@agpa.org

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