Monsignor Weiss to speak at PCRC awards dinner

Annual event planned April 4
 
DERBY - The Parent Child Resource Center, the leading provider of behavioral health services to children and families in the Valley, will hold its Annual Awards Dinner April 4 at Grassy Hill Lodge.
Tickets are $50 a person and reservations should be made by March 22 by calling 203-954-0543. 

The 37th Annual Awards Dinner is an event to celebrate the accomplishments of PCRC staff, supporters and members of the community who will be honored for their work serving families in the Valley.

The sixth annual Mary Lou Cook Award for Outstanding Service to Children and Families will be presented to David Morgan, and the eighth annual Joseph A. Pagliaro, Sr. Distinguished Service to Children and Families Award will be presented to Geraint Phillips.

David Morgan is Vice President of TEAM, Inc. in Derby, managing federal and state Head Start as well as multiple Connecticut Early Childhood Education programs in seven communities throughout the Valley and Milford.
Morgan is President of the CT Head Start Association, and is appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the State Senate to the Connecticut State Head Start Advisory Committee. He was appointed by Gov. Malloy to Connecticut’s Early Childhood Education Cabinet, which is charged with developing a high-quality, comprehensive system of early childhood education among a wide array of early childhood programs in the state of Connecticut.

Geraint Phillips is Vice President of Global Operations at PerkinElmer, a global leader in improving the health and safety of people and the environment.
Phillips moved to the United States in 2007 and, together with his wife Kate, an Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University, and three children they planted their Connecticut roots in Cheshire.
Phillips combines his passion for sport, charity and community spirit by participating in a number of initiatives and events to improve the quality of life in the Valley.
He is a founding member of the “Pedal for PCRC” steering committee and PerkinElmer is proud to continue their association with the PCRC as host sponsor for “Pedal for PCRC”.

Keynote Speaker Monsignor Robert Weiss was ordained in the Diocese of Rochester, NY in 1973.  He received a Master of Divinity and Master of Theology from St. Bernard’s Seminary, and a Doctor of Divinity Degree through the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, CA in 1979.

Weiss served as Pastor of St. Joseph’s Parish in Shelton from 1989 to 1999. In 1999 he was appointed Pastor of Saint Rose of Lima Church in Newtown. Weiss was one of the first on the scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.  Eight of the children and two of the adults shot to death inside Sandy Hook Elementary were members of his St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church.


The Lower Naugatuck Valley Parent Child Resource Center has been serving families in the towns of Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, Shelton and the surrounding area since 1975.



This information was taken from a press release from PCRC.