Jennifer Lauer Receives VisionServe Alliance 2024 Annual Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VisionServe Alliance Honors Jennifer Lauer with the 2024 Cathy Holden Award for Managerial Excellence
VisionServe Alliance is thrilled to honor Jennifer Lauer, OTD, OTR/L, CLVT, Director of Adult Services, Coordinator of the Drew’s Low Vision Clinic, and lead Occupational Therapist at the St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
The Cathy Holden Award honors a senior team member of a VSA member organization who has made an impact on, contribution to, or led staff in the pursuit of organizational excellence. We extend our deepest gratitude to Jennifer Lauer for her professionalism, organizational innovation, and service in support of people with blindness and low vision.
“Jennifer and her team provide life-changing services that increase confidence, safety and independence for adults living with vision loss. Her tremendous expertise, combined with compassion and sensitivity supports adults adjusting to vision loss – often at a time when they are most vulnerable,” said Lee Nasehi, President and CEO of VisionServe Alliance.
The Cathy Holden Award honors a senior team member of a VSA member organization who has made an impact on, contribution to, or led staff in the pursuit of organizational excellence. The award will be commemorated at the Tuesday, April 16th Awards Luncheon at VisionServe Alliance’s Focused on the Future Leadership Conference, in Kansas City, MO. Learn more about VisionServe Alliance’s Annual Awards and annual conference.
About VisionServe Alliance
VisionServe leads an alliance of 130+ member organizations that vastly improve the lives of people with blindness and low vision. VisionServe Alliance collaborates with leaders to enhance the health of the BVI field by maximizing engagement with life-changing vision rehabilitation training and services, addressing strategic issues impacting the field, cultivating leadership, enhancing management systems, sharing best practices, increased capacity-building and sustainability, informing public policy, developing groundbreaking data reports highlighting profound issues impacting people with blindness and vision loss, and more. VisionServe Alliance also leads the Aging and Vision Loss National Coalition (AVLNC), a consortium of leaders advocating for the needs of adults 65+ with blindness and low vision.
About VisionServe Alliance Annual Awards and Leadership Conference
VisionServe Alliance bestows its Annual Awards on leaders and innovators in the BVI field. Leaders receive Annual Awards in several categories at our annual leadership conference.
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