The Award for Distinguished Contributions to Practice in Community Psychology is presented annually to an individual whose career of high quality and innovative applications of psychological principles has demonstrated positive impact on, or significant illumination of the ecology of, communities or community settings, and has significantly benefited the practice of community psychology.
2019 Dennis Mohatt
2018 Christiane Sadeler, Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council
2017 Judith Meyers, Children’s Fund of Connecticut
2016 Ruth Hollman, SHARE!
2015 Pamela Imm
2014 Sam Tsemberis, Pathways to Housing
2013 Kien Lee, Community Science
2012 Susan Wolfe, Susan Wolfe & Associates, LLC
2011 *
2010 William Neigher, Atlantic Health
2009 Andrea Solarz
2008 Rich Jenkins
2007 Jerry Shultz
2005 Peter Dowrick, University of Hawaii
2004 David Julian, Ohio State University
2003 Jose Toro-Alfonsois
2002 Debbi Starnes, Emstar, Atlanta, GA
2001 Ed Madera, Denville, NJ
2000 Will Edgerton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1999 Tom Gullotta, New London, CT
1998 Vivian Brown, Manhattan, CA
1997 Steve Fawcett, University of Kansas
1996 Joe Galano, College of William and Mary, VA
1995 Bill Berkowitz, AHEC/Community Partners, Amherst, Massachusetts
1994 Gloria Levin, National Institute of Mental Health
1993 Maurice Elias, Rutgers University
1992 David Chavis, Rutgers University
1991 Beverly Long, World Federation of Mental Health
1990 John Morgan, Chesterfield MH-MR Department, Chesterfield, VA
1989 Frank Reissman, City University of New York
1988 Betty Tableman, Department of Mental Health, Lansing, MI
1987 Donald C. Klein, Union Graduate School
1986 Anthony Broskowski, Northside Community Mental Health Center, Tampa, FL
1985 Thomas Wolff, C, Amherst, Massachusetts
1984 Carolyn F. Swift, Interactive Development and Training, Columbus, OH
1983 Saul Cooper, Washtenaw County Community Mental Health Center, Michigan
* In 2011 award dates were changed to reflect the year the award was presented. For this reason some awards that are given annually do not have a 2011 recipient.