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Press Release
For Immediate Release:
November 12, 2003
Contact:
Christina Deibel or Linda Weyandt, (330) 535-8116
Oriana House President/CEO James Lawrence Receives International Award
Oriana House President and CEO James Lawrence is honored to be the 2003 recipient of the Arthur McDonald Leadership and Service Award. The International Community Corrections Association (ICCA) awards this recognition to an individual who has demonstrated a commitment to community-based corrections and who has used the ICCA as a vehicle to support his or her goals. ICCA represents more than 250 private agencies operating more than 1,500 residential and community alternative programs throughout the world. There are an additional 1,000 individual members. ICCA President Don Evans presented the award to Lawrence this week at ICCA's annual conference. Evans credited Lawrence's leadership, dedication, commitment, and forward thinking as reasons why Lawrence is deserving of this award. Lawrence has demonstrated expertise in the field of community corrections. He has served as President and CEO of Oriana House since 1981 when it became incorporated as a private, non profit community corrections and chemical dependency treatment agency. Under Lawrence's leadership and direction, Oriana House grew from a single program to an agency that offers more than 20 programs in community corrections and chemical dependency treatment. Lawrence served as president of ICCA from 1992-1995. For more than a decade, he has chaired ICCA's Justice Committee. Lawrence's experience has been recognized at local, state, and national levels. He has served on the Governor's Committee on Prison and Jail Overcrowding and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission. He has offered insight and testimony to the state and federal legislature. Lawrence is active in several correctional associations, such as ICCA, American Correctional Association (ACA), and the Ohio Community Corrections Association (OCCA). He is a former recipient of the Ohio Community Corrections Organization Simon Dinitz Award for his outstanding contributions as a community corrections professional. Lawrence has served on the Board of Governors of the ACA and was the ACA Board Liaison for the Residential Community Corrections Committee, the Non-Residential Community Corrections Committee, the Victims Committee and the Restorative Justice Committee. He has served on the ACA Community Corrections and the ACA Ethics Committee. He currently serves on the ACA Legislative Committee. Lawrence is also active in justice issues with the National Association of Counties (NACO) and the Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce. Lawrence has also served the community through his many volunteer efforts with local agencies including the Battered Women's Shelter, the Catholic Commission, the Peninsula Library and Historical Society, and Towpath Preschool in Peninsula. Lawrence lives in Peninsula with his wife and three children.
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