Ensuring Quality Programs & Services for Oregon's Children
Awards and Recognition
OACP Children's Champion Luncheon 2012 -
Honoring Rep. Nancy Nathanson, Rep. John Huffman, & Rep. Michael Dembrow
Photos of the luncheon
Rose Otte Award -
In Oregon, there live children who, even as they face challenging circumstances that threaten to prevent them from obtaining a quality life and a level of contribution to their communities, are nonetheless essential to Oregon's future. Rose Otte Award nominees recognize the challenges these children face and prioritize their needs in the competing interests of Oregon, and are committed to a courageous battle. Recipients have demonstrated such a commitment -- through leadership, innovation, and long-standing efforts -- that acknowledges and provides for the needs of these children.
Winners:
2008 - Chris Folkestad
2007 - Pam Patton
2006 - Robert Roy
2005 - Craig Campbell, Bill Thorndike,
Commissioner Dan Saltzman, Dr. John Deeney
2004 - Gun Denhart, Al Jubitz
2003 - David Sarasohn
2002 - Duncan Campbell, Sen. Lenn Hannon
2001 - John Emrick
2000 - Arnie Green
1999 - Kay Toran
1998 - Sen. Kate Brown, Rep. Kitty Piercy
Children's Champion Award -
Each year, the Alliance recognizes one or more public officials who have done an outstanding deed benefiting children. The children whom Alliance members care for have faced tough times and challenges most adults will never experience in their lives. These children are resilient, and with help from programs and services like those that Alliance members provide, will finish school, will flourish, will join the workforce and will contribute to Oregon's future.
Children's Champions have worked on behalf of children and families in lots of ways, including -
...a legislator who pushed for a policy that streamlines paperwork requirements so staff in programs for children can spend more time on our number one priority - the children;
...a legislator who pressed colleagues to make sure rehabilitation services were available for youth transitioning out of juvenile justice and into school and jobs; and
...a local Commissioner for Children and Families director who worked to ensure that all children, regardless of race or ethnicity, had equal access to services.
Winners:
2011 - Rep. Nancy Nathanson, Rep. John Huffman, Rep. Michael Dembrow
2009 - Rep. Bill Kennemer, Sen. Joanne Verger, Sen. Chip Shields
2008 - Judge Rebecca Orf
2007 - Rep. Tina Kotek, Rodney Cook (Director, Clackamas County Commission on Children and Families)
2006 - Bob Jester (Director, Oregon Youth Authority)
2005 - Sen. Betsy Johnson, Rep. Linda Flores
2004 - Rep. Billy Dalto, Sen. Avel Gordly, Sen. Margaret Carter
Diamond Award -
Each year, the Alliance looks to its membership, to recognize those individuals who have been both outstanding leaders in Oregon for children, and also an outstanding leader in the Alliance.The Alliance membership is representative of the incredible dedication and leadership a handful of Oregonians have, each of whom has committed their professional lives to the wellbeing of children in Oregon. The children they care for have faced tough times, and challenges most adults will never experience in their lives.
This is the Alliance's most meaningful award because it comes from peers who want to recognize colleagues within the Alliance who have made extraordinary contributions towards our shared goals for children and families.
The award plaque reads, "The Diamond Award is given to a person who has demonstrated consistent and outstanding leadership to Oregon's children and families, and to the Oregon Alliance of Children's Programs."
Winners:
2011: Tom Mitchell
2010: Mike Ware
2009: Craig Opperman
2008: Kim Scott
2007: Bob Johnson
2006: Mike Balter
2005: Arnie Green
2004: Jim Forbes
2003: Chris Krenk
2002: Emma Dennis
2001: Benson Meyers
2000: Dennis Morrow
1999: Sylvia Roehnelt
1998: John DeMay
1997: Richard Smith
1996: Rose Otte
1995: Doug Poppen
1994: Ruth Brodeur
1993: Pam Patton
1992: Richard Patton
1991: Kathy Seymour
1990: Jess Armas
1989: Jim Seymour