Robert H. Klein Social Responsibility Award
The Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health Robert H. Klein Social Responsibility Award, inaugurated in 2010, is presented annually at AGPA Connect to an AGPA member, group of members, an Affiliate Society or an affiliated organization of mental health professionals who has provided an exceptional service that ultimately benefits the public-at-large (e.g. training professionals who provide group interventions, direct services to a community in need, extensive pro bono work, etc.). The award was endowed and named in 2024 for long-time AGPA member and Past President Robert Klein, PhD, ABPP, CGP, AGPA-DLF, who passed away in 2023. This award had great meaning and significance to Dr. Klein, who received it onsite in New York City in 2020, recognizing him for his lifelong commitment to helping communities heal after traumatic events and his generous nature in providing pro bono work.
Anyone can submit a nominee or an applicant can be self-nominated. The application must include the nominee(s) name, address, curriculum vita (of all individuals being nominated, if more than one) and a detailed reason for the award nomination. Additional letters of recommendation are encouraged to accompany the award nomination. Submissions are due to the Group Foundation office at [email protected] by October 1st of each year.
2023 Recipient
D. Thomas Stone, Jr., PhD, CGP, AGPA-F for his exceptional acts of service that benefit the community at large.
2022 Recipient
Leo Leiderman, PsyD, ABPP, FAACP, CGP, AGPA-F for his exceptional acts of service that benefit the community at large.
2021 Recipients
Craig Haen, Ph.D., RDT, CGP, LCAT, AGPA-F and Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP, CGP, AGPA-DF, Co-Chairs, AGPA Community Outreach Task Force for their exceptional acts of service that benefit the community at large.
2020 Recipients
Robert Klein, PhD, ABPP, CGP, AGPA-DF, for his sustained, decades-long work in and commitment to community outreach and trauma response work.
Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society received the Social Responsibility Award for their Work Group for Racial Equity.
2019 Recipient
Richard Beck, LCSW, BCD, CGP, AGPA-F received the Social Responsibility Award for his outstanding community outreach activities on behalf of the group psychotherapy community in service to the public.
2018 Recipient
Jeffrey L. Kleinberg, PhD, CGP, AGPA-DF received the Social Responsibility Award for his exceptional acts of service that benefit the community at large.
2016 Recipient
Nina K. Thomas, Ph.D., ABPP, CGP is receiving the Social Responsibility Award for her sustained, decades-long work in social activism and trauma work nationally and internationally.
2015 Recipient
Gaea Logan LPC-S, CGP for her sustained, decades-long work in social activism and trauma work nationally and internationally.
2014 Recipient
Kathy Rider, LCSW, BCD, CGP, AGPA-F, for her sustained, decades-long work in social service organizations that serve the most vulnerable citizens in Austin, particularly her service on behalf of mental health consumers and children.
2013 Recipient
Cele Keeper, MSW, AGPA-F, for her long and outstanding history of community service and volunteer leadership in the mental health and social justice arenas.
2012 Recipient
The Boston-Threshold Group
Helmed by Patricia Doherty, Cecil Rice and Kathleen Ulman, The Boston-Threshold Group was honored for the establishment and long-standing delivery of training conferences in Northern Ireland to support and deliver on the belief that group psychotherapy can be beneficial in response to war and long-standing civil conflict.
2010 Recipient
Suzanne Phillips, Psy.D., ABPP, CGP, AGPA-DF for her community outreach work on behalf of AGPA and the group psychotherapy community.
Please direct ALL inquiries and application materials to:
Group Foundation for Advancing Mental Health
Telephone: 212-297-2143 | Email: dfeirman@agpa.org
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