VANDU wins award for Excellence in Community Programming

The Kaiser Foundation has choosen VANDU as recipient of their 2011 Excellence in Community Programming award. Accompanying this honour VANDU receives $10,000 for a recognized charity of its choice.

“Mental health and addictions are health issues, not moral ones,” said the Foundation’s Founder and Chairman Edgar Kaiser Jr. “The recipients always amaze me,” continued Kaiser. “One of the main reasons we established this Awards Program was to acknowledge and celebrate the extraordinary work being done in this field by individuals, community groups and the media. These people often get little or no recognition for their efforts and we hope that shining a light on their work will help raise awareness of mental health and addictions locally and nationally.”