At Annual Family Champions Celebration, Kim O'Rielly Master of Ceremonies

Kim O’Rielly of Redding Connecticut, President and CEO of the Connecticut Council of Family Service Agencies, served as the Master of Ceremonies at the organizations annual Celebration of Family Champions hosted by the Connecticut Council of Family Service Agencies at the Trumbull Marriot on May 15. Fourteen exceptional Board members or volunteers and fourteen staff members, one from each of the Connecticut Council of Family Service Agencies member organizations, were honored at the Celebration.

In her remarks at the beginning of the program, O’Rielly said, “This year’s honorees provide a window into the breadth and depth of services that our member agencies provide in the communities they serve. Family Champions embody caring, the kind of caring that turns lives around, and the agencies they represent and the communities served by these agencies are immeasurably richer because of it.”

The Connecticut Council of Family Service Agencies, Inc. is a statewide network of fourteen independent, non-profit, family service agencies that deliver services to over 224,000 families annually from more than 90 sites located throughout Connecticut. Member Agencies are community-based, licensed by the State of CT and have been effectively serving CT families for over 100 years. For the past 9 years, the Council has recognized one exceptional volunteer or Board member and one staff member from each affiliated agency as Family Champions.

 For more information visit the Connecticut Council of Family Services Agencies at http://www.ctfsa.org/.