Announcements 2008
National Child Labor Committee
At a recent ceremony at the Time Warner Center, Good Shepherd's Executive Director Sr. Paulette LoMonaco was one of ten 2008 Lewis Hine Award Honorees.
A program of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) and named for the celebrated photographer who documented child labor exploitation for the NCLC in the early 20th Century, the Lewis Hine Awards honor efforts on behalf of the health, education and welfare of youth.
Bestowed annually on ten relatively unknown individuals, five professionals and five volunteers, the Awards provide an opportunity for the NCLC to "acknowledge the extraordinary efforts of people doing extraordinary things on behalf of young people," in the words of 2008 Awards Chairman John Lee II. "We applaud and elevate their work and dedication in the hope that they are an example for the rest of us to be agents of change in our society."
The 2008 Panel of Judges took special note of the many programmatic innovations pioneered at Good Shepherd under Sr. Paulette's leadership, including the Chelsea Foyer, a supportive housing program for young adults based on a highly successful European model and adapted by Good Shepherd to provide much-needed services for youth who 'age out' of foster care, and our acclaimed transfer school model for formerly out-of-school youth. (4/9/08)
