HARTFORD RESIDENT RECEIVES UNITED WAY COURAGE AWARD
Theresa Ireland, a former inmate at Niantic Prison for Women, has received the United Way Community Campaign Courage Award, an honor presented annually to an individual who has shown outstanding courage and perseverance in overcoming adversity, with help from a local program supported by the United Way Community Campaign.
Following her release from prison, Ireland immediately sought counseling at Catholic Charities — Archdiocese of Hartford, a United Way Community Investment partner. She also began helping others — a tradition that continues to this day. “I just don’t feel right about taking [services] unless I’m also giving back,” she explains.
Today, with help from her counselors at Catholic Charities, Ireland has achieved stability and learned to manage daily life issues such as managing a budget. She also volunteers two days a week at Gifts of Love, an Avon-based agency that provided her with furniture, food and clothes when she moved out of a post-incarceration halfway house and into her first apartment.
Ireland is also a national advocate and spokesperson on the issues of mental health, incarceration, and homelessness.
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KAPLOWE WINS AWARD
Barbara Kaplowe, director of quality and performance excellence at MidState Medical Center in Meriden, was recently honored by The Connecticut Association for Healthcare Quality with its Gail Greene Distinguished Member Award.
She has been described as a life-long learner of quality and performance excellence who shares her knowledge with the association and its members. She has served as president and served six years as treasurer.
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INSURANCE AGENCY HONORED
BOLT (Business Owners Liability Team), a Farmington insurance agency that specializes in serving small business owners, was honored with a Vanguards in Insurance Practices Standards and Technology Best Practices Award recently at the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in San Diego. The VIP Awards are sponsored by INN in partnership with Celent.
The BOLT nomination was submitted by SeaPass Solutions and focused on BOLT’s use of SeaPass technology as a way to provide commercial lines insurance via online, real-time, direct-to-consumer quotes from multiple carriers.
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ROSA HONORED IN WATERBURY
Carl Rosa, CEO of Main Street Waterbury, was honored with The Waterbury Regional Chamber’s Leadership Greater Waterbury Alumni of the Year Award. Rosa, a graduate of the leadership class of 2005, joined the program’s steering committee immediately following graduation and quickly became a notably active member.
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