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2007 AGLBICAL AWARD WINNERS
ALCA Top Awards to AGLBICAL Members

Wilbur A Tincher Award
for a Humanitarian & Caring Person:   
Ms. Anita Neuer

The Wilbur A. Tincher Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person recognizes an ALCA member who gives to others without fanfare or expectation. This award includes a $100 grant as a personal witness to his love and admiration for those who genuinely care for the personal welfare of others and social justice.

This year’s winner esteemed by colleagues and friends embodies the key words CARING and HUMANE.

Nominated by ALASGW and ALMHCA

Fannie R. Cooley Award
for Distinguished Professional Development:
Ms. Harriet Schaffer 

The Fannie R. Cooley Award recognizes outstanding professional development designed to enhance the techniques, strategies, and systems beneficial to counselors. This award includes a $100.00 grant as a personal testimony of her love and admiration for the genuine care and concern for the professional development of counselors.

This year’s winner served as a Member of the Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling from 2001 to 2006 with a sincere and committed effort to make positive changes in the future directions of counselor licensure in Alabama, as well as to protect the rights of clients and the public from unethical practice.

Nominated by ALACES, ALASGW, ALMHCA & Chapter IV

ALCA Chapter/Division Program Award:
Ms. Kassie Doggett
 

The Chapter/Division Publication Award recognizes the unique and superior program of significant interest to the counseling profession particularly ALCA and its members.

This year’s winning program “ALMHCA Winter Workshop” entitled “Ethical, Legal, and Professional Considerations in Supervision, Education, and Research” was specifically designed to enhance the supervisors’ and counselor educators’ skills in the professional development of students and supervisees.

Nominated by ALMHCA President

ALCA Research Award:
Dr. Jamie Satcher & Dr. Mark Leggett

The Research Award is presented to honor and recognize outstanding research in areas of interest to the counseling; particularly, to members of ALCA and its chapters and divisions, as well as to stimulate future research.

This year’s winning research titled “Homonegativity Among Alabama Counselors” was designed to examine the prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuality among ALCA members as well as explore potential unethical behavior among counselors serving this population.

Nominated by AGLBICAL, ALACES, ALMHCA, & Chapter III
 

2006 AGLBICAL AWARD WINNERS
ALCA Top Awards to AGLBICAL Members

Jean H. Cecil
Distinguished Counselor Educator Award:   
Dr. Jamie Satcher

The purposes of the Jean H. Cecil Distinguished Counselor Educator Award are to (a) honor and recognize an ALCA member and counselor educator who has been an exemplary mentor for counselors, (b) encourage continued excellence among counselor educators, and (c) provide ALCA the opportunity to show appreciation for outstanding counselor training efforts and accomplishments.  

The nominee must have a history of contributing to counselor training through teaching, publishing, presenting, and supervising at the national, regional, state and local levels, as well as, diverse leadership positions within the ALCA and beyond.  The nominee should be a person who has brought great attention, respect and admiration to counseling programs in Alabama through personal and professional work.

This year’s winning nomination packet contained NINE, strong letters of recommendation from colleagues, peers, program chairs, and past students.  There were averaged student course evaluations from classes he taught where nearly every score was a 5 (or close to 5) on a 5 point Likert scale on items like:

-- Stimulated me to think in new or creative ways.
-- Encouraged me to develop and nurture my interests, strengths, and talents.
-- Challenged me by the readings, discussion, and content of the course.

Our winner has been published nationally, as author or co-author at least 36 times and numerous other times in state and regional publications. He has been a prolific presenter delivering more than 70 sessions on state, regional, national, and international stages.  One letter stated: “at the risk of appearing trite, I will paraphrase the comments of former Senator Lloyd Benson by stating…I knew Jean Cecil.  I worked with her.  I know the kind of professional person she would find worthy of a recognition bearing her name”.  She went on to note the comparative accomplishments and agendas of our winner.

More than one spoke to his “patience”, “ease” and “cool” in the face of intense schedules, a myriad of responsibilities and departmental pressures.  Others mentioned the same theme, but rather the focus on professional life, they identified with these traits in his personal life writing “He is not only a strong supporter of his students, but an example of how to handle life”.

Fannie R. Cooley Award
for Distinguished Professional Development:
Mr. Michael Lebeau

This award recognizes the professional development of an individual.  Professional development is defined as the intentional strengthening, expansion, enhancement, improvement and extension of the profession.  This is the first year the award bears Fannie Cooley’s name, and the initial funds she provided for this award to offer the recipient a $100.00 grant serve as a personal witness to her love and admiration for those who genuinely care about professional development for counselors.

The nominators for this year’s winner easily provided the committee with thorough documentation, including several outstanding letters of recommendation, a 4-page single-spaced vita with absolutely no “fluff”, and 4 pages of itemized accomplishments demonstrating activities which broadened applications of and opportunities for the profession, a record of long-continued substantive work far beyond the call of duty to improve professional practices, and consistent, prodigious service to others.  Indeed, no one in this room would have trouble finding evidence that this person clearly embodies the spirit of this award.

The winner of this award works proactively to promote the field of counseling and human development.  He quickly emerges as a leader within the professional organizations he joins, and eagerly takes on responsibility to carry out the mission of the group.  He is vocal about his beliefs, and actively advocates for diverse populations.  He is committed to helping educate and develop our field by regularly serving as a skilled and engaging presenter.  He diligently develops promotional material, informative resources and curriculum for on-going professional development.  He has served our organization in a variety of leadership roles over the years, and he would tell you that he intentionally gives of himself to the profession because “it’s just the right thing to do”.  He is a natural mentor, a dedicated leader, and one of the most congruent models of excellence I have had the privilege to know.  Besides all that, he’s just a pretty amazing guy….

Nominated by AGLBICAL and Chapter IV, please join me in congratulating this year’s recipient of the Fannie R. Cooley Award for Distinguished Professional Development, my trusted colleague and dear friend, Mr. Michael Lebeau.

(Presented by Awards Committee Co-Chair, Anita Neuer)
 

Distinguished Legislative Service Award:
Representative Alvin Holmes 

This award recognizes the outstanding legislative work of an ALCA member or active legislator. 

The winner has been a public servant for over 30 years, and has been a strong voice for the equality of all Alabamians.  He has been a sponsor of legislation to remove racist language from our state constitution, and in 1999, introduced a bill to add sexual orientation to the already existing hate crimes law in Alabama.  He has re-introduced the bill every year, and while it has not yet become part of the law, it has gained significant support and a companion bill in the state senate has been introduced.  This State Representative has said that those who commit crimes should be punished; and like the crimes committed against someone based on race, religion, color, ethnicity or national origin; those who commit crimes based upon sexual orientation should face a severe sentence.  His support of this legislation for seven years and his commitment to the future speak directly to the common values, bylaws and ethical conduct standards of our Association.

Representative Alvin Holmes was nominated by AGLBICAL.  Representative Holmes was was not on hand, and Donna Melder, AGLBICAL President, received the award for him.
 

Chapter/Division Service Award:
AGLBICAL Website
Web Manager, Mr. Michael Lebeau

This award was amended this year to recognize a particularly unique or valuable service provided for the chapter/division membership AND/OR their local community. The service must be other than those provided through publications and programs, and must promote increased member involvement in professional aspects of the counseling and human development field.

This year’s winner not only clearly provides an important service to members AND the community, but provides an outstanding resource that is more than substantial for already well-informed audiences at a state, National, even International level.

This vast, attractive and well-organized resource is organized into categories such as: Glossary of Terminology, Frequently asked questions, Myths and Misconceptions, Quotations, Statistics, News, Activities, Events, Articles, Research, Commentary, Case studies, and MORE!

This year’s winning service can be found at WWW.AGLBICAL.ORG. The website was created to provide accurate, up-to-date, research-based material to raise awareness and understanding, and to assist in the dissemination and advancement of knowledge in the area of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues and concerns.

2005 AWARD WINNER
AGLBICAL Member Wins Top Award at ALCA 2005 Fall Conference
 

Wilbur Tincher Award
for a Humanitarian & Caring Person:
Dr. Glenda Elliott

The Wilbur Tincher Award, one of ALCA's most distinguished prizes, was presented to Glenda at the Awards Breakfast, November 16, as part of the 2005 ALCA Fall Conference.

The Wilbur Tincher Award for a Humanitarian and Caring Person is given to honor a person whose activities contribute to the philanthropic and humanitarian needs of the community and who gives without fanfare or expectation of reward.

The award also includes a grant of $100.00. Wilbur Tincher, a counselor educator and former ALCA Executive Secretary provided the initial funds for this grant.

Dr. Glenda Elliott is a counselor educator at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  She is an Associate Professor Emerita at the UAB School of Education and is the Coordinator of the UAB Safe Zone Training.

Glenda won the ALCA President's Award at the 2004 ALCA Fall Conference for her courageous efforts as the Chair of the Current Issues Committee in particular and her overall contribution to the advancement of human rights in general.

The following statement accompanied the granting of this award to Glenda:

"The 2004-2005 year was a landmark year for ALCA, with the Current Issues committee being charged with exploring GLBT issues in counseling, with 2 new interest sections being formed, and finally, with both of those interest sections being approved as new Divisions of ALCA.  This year’s winner of the Wilbur Tincher award has a vita that demonstrates humanitarianism and caring for others consistently, year after year.  She has been an advocate for social change, at the grass roots levels and in leadership and mentoring.  In her work with the formation of a new Division for ALCA, she has served as a role model, shared her time, talent, and financial resources, and shared a sense of humor along the way.  She has founded or helped shepherd a number of advocacy efforts, including UAB’s Safe Zone, Birmingham Alliance of Gay, Straight, Lesbian, BiSexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth, Compassionate Listeners, Days of Equality for Equality Alabama, and most recently, one of ALCAs newest Divisions, the Association for Gay, Lesbian & Bisexual Issues in Counseling in Alabama."

(Presented by Awards Committee Co-Chair, Gary Williams)