ADULT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROGRAMS

• 2012: CASES' ACT Team substance abuse specialist Kevin Cleare was honored by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare with the Lilly Reintegration Award.
• 2010: CASES' Nathaniel ACT Team Leader, Bradley Jacobs, receives the Emerging Social Work Leader Award from the National Association of Social Workers - New York City Chapter.
• 2006: CASES is honored at the Howie T. Harp Peer Specialist Training Center's annual graduation. The Howie T. Harp Award recognizes CASES' leadership in the employment of Peer Specialists to serve clients with mental illness and substance abuse disorders in our Nathaniel Project.
• 2002: CASES' Nathaniel Project wins the American Probation and Parole Association's (APPA) President's Award. The award "recognizes exemplary community corrections programs, which serve to advance the knowledge, effectiveness and integrity of the system." APPA describes the Nathaniel Project as an "exemplary alternative to incarceration model designed to balance the treatment needs of felony offenders with mental illness and the court's requirement for effective and responsive community supervision. Within the framework of this project, criminal behavior is reduced and people are restored their dignity and place in the community."
• 2002: CASES' Nathaniel Project receives the Thomas M. Wernet Award from the National Association of County Behavioral Health Directors. The award gives national recognition to a program "demonstrating innovation and creativity while ensuring community and consumer participation."
• 2002: CASES' Nathaniel Project wins the American Psychiatric Association's Significant Achievement Award. In describing the Nathaniel Project, Psychiatric Services emphasizes the program's "tremendous success in retaining participants" and its cost effectiveness: "The project has demonstrated that the yearly costs of providing services to a participant ($14,578) is significantly less than the cost of a year in a state prison ($29,678) or a city jail ($53,224)."

YOUTH AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS

• 2011: Court Employment Project staff member Will Beale is recognized by the Brooklyn Treatment Court for creating the "Above the Streets" basketball league.
• 2011: CASES' Director of Youth Programs, Joseph McLaughlin, receives the Lewis Hine Award for Service to Children and Youth from the National Child Labor Committee. These awards recognize professionals and volunteers from all walks of life who have dedicated themselves to the health, education, and well-being of young people.
• 2003: CASES' Career Exploration Project receives its second Promising and Effective Practices Network Award from the National Youth Employment Coalition. The Coalition is a nonpartisan national organization dedicated to promoting programs and policies that help youth succeed in becoming lifelong learners and self-sufficient citizens.
• 2002: The Youth Enterprise Project, part of CASES' Career Exploration Project, wins first prize in the Fleet Youth Entrepreneur Competition held by the Citizens Committee for New York City.
• 2000: CASES' Career Exploration Project receives a National Juvenile Justice Award from the Juvenile Court Centennial Initiative (JCCI), a project of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Career Exploration is one of six programs nationwide to receive the award and is hailed as an innovative program "for giving kids who are in trouble with the law a chance to make a better choice." Liz Ryan, National Field Director for JCCI, says, "The Career Exploration Project is making tremendous strides in providing New York City's youth with positive and challenging alternatives to life on the streets."
• 1999: CASES' Career Exploration Project receives its first Promising and Effective Practices Network Award from the National Youth Employment Coalition. Career Exploration is one of eight programs recognized nationwide.

OTHER

• 2011: CASES is named one of ten semifinalists for The New York Times Company Nonprofit Excellence Awards. The awards recognize nonprofits in the New York City area for excellence in organizational management.
• 2011: CASES CEO Joel Copperman receives the Sara Tullar Fasoldt Leadership and Humanitarian Award from the New York State Office of Probation and Correctional Alternatives. The award pays special tribute to outstanding individuals in the field of community corrections who demonstrate extraordinary professionalism, personal commitment and dedication-all hallmarks of the life and work of Sara Fasoldt, former head of the NYS Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives.
• 2006: CASES' Staten Island Community Service Project is recognized for service work in the Bluebelt Region of Staten Island with Certificates of Merit and Recognition from the New York State Assembly and the New York City Council.
• 2000: CASES receives the New American Community Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. The award recognizes CASES' work to "create and maintain a justice system that is effective, fair, humane, and [that] offers economically sound solutions to family, community, and justice problems."