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The Founders Award
SPAN USA 's highest honor, the Founders Award, is bestowed for contributions to suicide prevention that best exemplify and carry on the traditions of vision, entrepreneurialism, inspiration and energy instilled in SPAN USA by the founding generation of pioneers.
The 2008 recipients announced at the 2008 Legislative Institute in late February are:
- Ken & Madge Tullis
Previous awardees include:
- Maury Lieberman & Leslie Scallet
- Tom O'Clair
- Sam & Lois Bloom
- Iris Bolton, MA
- Mark Rosenberg, MD, MPP
The Allies for Action Award
Given each year to one or more individuals who have helped advance suicide prevention by partnering or collaborating with SPAN USA to help achieve its mission.
The 2008 recipients announced at the 2008 Legislative Institute in late February are:
- Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA)
- Representative Leonard Boswell (D-IA)
- Association of American Railroads
- Forest Pharmaceuticals
Previous awardees include:
- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)
- Representative Jim Ramstad (R-MN)
- Charles Curie, MA, ACSW
- The Tennesee Suicide Prevention Network
- The Jason Foundation
- Michael Hogan, PhD
- Virginia Trotter Betts, MSN, JD, RN, FAAN
- Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH)
- Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT)
- The Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
- Representative Bart Gordon (D-TN)
- Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI)
- Lloyd Potter, PhD, MPH
- Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)
- Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR)
- Solvay Pharmaceuticals
- Senator Paul Wellstone (posthumously)
The Sandy Martin SPAN USA Grassroots Award
Given each year to one or more "unsung heroes" working at the local or state level who clearly exemplify sustained commitment to the mission of suicide prevention.
The 2008 recipients announced at the 2008 Legislative Institute in late February are:
- Mary Ellen Carpenter
- Pua Kaninau
- Healing Hearts Ministries - Karen Covey Moore
- Healing Hearts Ministries - Anne Cronin Tyson
Previous awardees include:
- LaRita Archibald
- Karyl Chastain Beal
- Linda Flatt
- Marilyn Koenig
- Larry Lewis
- Josephine Pesaresi
- Janet Schnell
- Ken & Madge Tullis
- Michelle Linn-Gust
- Laura Meyer
- Bunkie Rivkin
- Stephanie Weber
- Heidi Bryan
- Pam Harrington
- Diane Jones
- Sandy Martin