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Center for Children’s Advocacy
Spring for Kids!
April 28, 2011 Champion of Children Awards and Fundraiser
Center for Children’s Advocacy 2011 Champion of Children Award Recipients, from left: Ann Taylor, Sr. VP and General Counsel,
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center; Senator Toni Harp; Bill Carbone, Executive Director, Judcial Department Court Support Services
Division, and wife Kathryn Carbone; Representative Toni E. Walker.
Clients of the Center for Children’s Advocacy, Blanca and Jenille described the support they have received from their CCA attorneys.
Their poignant stories are overwhelming and moving.

Aaron Roy.
Above: CCA client and Event Ambassador, Angel.
Lou Ando, left, and Jamie LeHane, Regional Behavioral Health
Director, Department of Children and Families.
Above: CCA Executive Director Martha Stone chats with Liz Brown.
Left: Audrey Meyers and Barbara Werner.

From left: Jane Brady, Director of Donor Relations, CCA;
Jean Fosie; Hilary Levinson.
Above: CCA Administrative Assistant Meshie Knight
Right: Martin Anderson, Deputy Commissioner, Connecticut
Department of Administrative Services

Top Left: Sharon Langer; and Lynne Garner, Executive Director,
The Donaghue Foundation.
Middle: Dr. Paul Dworkin, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center;
and Jay Sicklick, Deputy Director, Center for Children’s Advocacy
and Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Project.
Bottom Left: Ken Przybysz, lobbyist and government relations.
Top Right: Attorney Eliot Gersten.
Bottom Right: Matt Dolan and Judge Edward Dolan.

Nearly 200 people enjoyed the great food and wine, silent auction and moving presentations.
Above: Rhea Klein and Donia Ferruolo.
Left: Betty H. and Matt Dolan.

From left: State Senator Toni Harp; Brett Rayford, Bureau Chief, Adolescent and Tranisitional Services, Department of Children and
Families; Lou Ando.
Spring for Kids Event Committee member Cheryl Saloom.
From left: Ann-Marie DeGraffenreidt, Department of Children and
Families; Bonnie Berk, Director of Communications, Center for
Children’s Advocacy

From left: Stacey Violante Cote, Director, Teen Legal Advocacy Clinic,
Center for Children’s Advocacy, shares a touching moment after
Jenille’s presentation.
From left: Kathryn Carbone; Martha Stone, Executive Director, Center
for Children’s Advocacy.
Top: Bill Carbone, Executive Director, CT Judicial Department
Court Support Services Division, accepts his 2011 Champion
of Children Award from the Center for Children’s Advocacy
Above: Champion of Children Award recipient Ann Taylor,
Sr. VP and General Counsel, Connecticut Childre’s Medical
Center; Mario Borelli, Chair, Center for Chilren’s Advocacy
Board of Directors
Left: From left, Erika Nowakowski; Penny Robiner, Spring for
Kids Event Committee; Wilma Sicklick.

Above from left: Tammy Sneed, Brian Matiello, and Jamie LeHane, all of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families.
Below from left: State Representative Toni E. Walker and State Senator Toni Harp accept 2011 Champion of Children Awards for their
work with youth involved with the state’s juvenile justice system.

Center for Children’s Advocacy
Spring for Kids!
April 28, 2011 Champion of Children Awards and Fundraiser
Our Heartfelt Thanks
Sustaining Sponsors
Sponsors
Aetna
Bingham McCutchen, LLP
Bracewell & Giuliani
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
Connecticut Health Foundation
Goodwin College
Shipman & Goodwin
Bauza & Associates
Bozzuto’s Inc.
Connecticut Lighting Centers
Connecticut Junior Republic
Ira B. Grundberg
Hunt Leibert Jacobson PC
Legal Files
Mahoney Sabol & Company
John Pedraza Insurance Agency, State Farm Insurance
People’s United Insurance Agency, RC Knox
Pullman & Comley, LLC
RisCassi & Davis
Tzedakah House
Violette Mechanical
The Waterford Group
Webster Bank
Wheeler Clinic
Center for Children’s Advocacy
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