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A
team of 18 senior-level independent practitioners, co-chaired
by Sandra Wills Hannon, Ph.D., The Hannon Group Founder, and
Rita Mhley, President of Mhley-Davis, received top honors
in the 2004 Magellan Awards. The team was honored for the
publicity work it has done this past year with the Center
for Child Protection and Family Support. The Center, a Washington,
DC-based community organization, addresses the effects of
child abuse and victimization by providing innovative school-based
and parent education programming, along with training and
consulting for area professionals. All team members are members
of the Independent Public Relations Alliance, a group of over
80 independent public relations practitioners and small business
owners in the Washington metropolitan area.
IPRA
placed 31st in the top "50 Publicity Campaigns of 2004"
category, and received honors in the "Organizational
Communications" category of the Awards, which are sponsored
by San Diego, Calif.-based League of American Communications
Professionals. The Awards are a publicity campaign competition
judged in peer-level competitions. This year the competition
drew more than 300 entries. The competition class winners
can be seen at: http://www.lacp.com/2004magellan/C8.HTM.
"We
are honored by this tremendous recognition from our peers,"
said Sandra Wills Hannon, Ph.D., co-chairman of the IPRA pro-bono
committee. "But even more important is the essential
work of The Center that we are proud to have been associated
with this past year. Child abuse is an issue that needs greater
discussion within our communities and among the health care
professions."
Visit
www.stopchildabusenow.org
for more information about the Center.
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