2023 DIAMOND & HEARTS EVENT FOR NEW YORK’S CHILDREN
Thank you to all our friends, colleagues and supporters for joining us to celebrate our Diamond & Hearts for New York's Children Awardees: Bill Gettman, on behalf of Northern Rivers Family of Services - recipient of the Diamond & Hearts Award; Lee Lounsbury, CASANYS Board President - recipient of the Mary Rich Award; Kathy Davidson, NYS Office of Victim Services - recipient of the Heart for New York's Children Award. Special thanks to Featured Guest Speaker, Suzanne Miles-Gustave, Esq., Acting Commissioner | Executive Deputy Commissioner, NYS Office of Children and Family Services.
2022 Diamond & Hearts Event for New York’s Children
After two years hiatus due to Covid-19, on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, over 80 leaders and supporters joined CASA of New York State to honor the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy with the Diamond & Hearts Award on their 150th anniversary, and Art Siegel, Esq., the organization’s departing President of the Board of Directors, with the Mary Rich Award. The event, which was held at 677 Prime in downtown Albany, was sponsored by Bond Schoeneck and King, the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, Harris Beach PLLC, The Law Offices of Patrick J. Higgins, PLLC, E. Stewart Jones Hacker Murphy LLP and Hansen’s Farm & Nursery.
Photos, clockwise from top left: Jackie Boissonnault, Executive Director of CASANYS; Richard Heyl de Ortiz, CASANYS Director of Training and Program Support with Chelsea Paterson, CASANYS Director of Marketing and Communications; Desiree King, Program Manager, CASA of Dutchess County with Cheryl Vallee, Executive Director, The Center for Community Justice, Ashley Greene, Executive Director of Genesee County CASA for Children, Art Siegel, Mary Rich Award Honoree, Jodi Johnson, Program Director of Erie County CASA, Kathy Park, Executive Director of CASA of Chautauqua County, Liz Caldwell, Executive Director of CASA of Rochester/Monroe County; and Rhonda Vaughn, Program Director of CASA of the Capital Region; Jackie Boissonnault with Lee Lounsbury, CASANYS Board President; Art Siegel, Esq., receiving the Mary Rich Award from Barbara Morgen, Esq., CASANYS Board Member and Advocate Supervisor of CASA of Westchester and Putnam Counties; NYS Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi; Crystal Charles, Sr. Policy Analyst accepting the Diamond & Hearts Award with Kate Breslin, President and CEO of The Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy, presented by Richard Heyl de ortiz; Rhonda Vaughn with the Hon. Susan M. Kushner, Albany County Family Court Judge, and Cheryl Vallee; event attendees.
2019 diamond and hearts for New York’s children
On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, over 70 leaders and supporters joined CASA of New York State to honor the New York State Kinship Navigator and Barbara Benedict, the organization’s departing Executive Director. The event, which was held at 677 Prime in downtown Albany, was sponsored by the Albany Times Union, Bond Schoeneck and King and the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York.
Photos, clockwise from top left: CASANYS President Art Siegel with Henry M. Greenberg, Esq., President of the New York State Bar Association and Hon. Gerard E. Maney, Albany Court Family Court ; Departing CASANYS Executive Director Barbara Benedict (center) with Ronnie Siegel and Duncan Wormer, her husband; Gerard Wallace, Executive Director of the New York State Kinship Navigator with Jackie Boissonnault, CASANYS Executive Director; and Rhonda Vaughn, Program Coordinator of CASA of the Capital Region and Michael Washington.