OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD GOALS
- Recognize outstanding individuals or organizations that have provided exemplary service and support in collaboration with or on behalf of people with disabilities;
- Recognize new approaches and best practices in service for and relationships with people with disabilities;
- Increase knowledge, understanding, and support of people with disabilities;
- Increase and broaden awareness of the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities, its many partners, and their work; and
- Encourage others to join the Board's and the award recipient's efforts to improve the service system for people with disabilities through commitment, creativity, and innovation.
SELECTION CRITERIA
To be nominated for and receive the Outstanding Achievement Award, an individual or organization must have demonstrated achievements which have:
- Resulted in a better quality of life for individuals with disabilities;
- Improved performance or effectiveness of the disability services and support system;
- Overcome barriers and positively changed the status quo;
- Had lasting impact and permanently changed lives for the better; and
- Involved extraordinary effort above and beyond what is normally expected and required.
If the recipient is a disability services professional, these achievements must have been outside of his or her normal area of responsibility. If the recipient is an organization, these achievements must have involved significant service within Virginia.
These achievements may have been a single act of significance or an accumulation of good works. They may have had statewide or local impact.
If an individual, the recipient may be of any age and may or may not have disabilities his or herself, but if so, these achievements must have had impact beyond individual needs or interests. If self-nominated, the recipient's nomination must have received strong community support and endorsement.
Nominations for the 2006 Outstanding Achievement Award were accepted between September 1 and October 30, 2006. A special Selection Committee of the Board reviewed the nominations and recommend a recipient who best met the award criteria to the full Board for approval at its December 2006 quarterly meeting.
