PRINTER'S NO. 2265
No. 248 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY TRUE, FICHTER, CAPPABIANCA, PERZEL, JAROLIN,
SERAFINI, MASLAND, DENT, BROWN, READSHAW, ARMSTRONG, RUBLEY,
McCALL, SCHULER, TIGUE, PESCI, SEMMEL, BELARDI, SHANER,
M. N. WRIGHT, NAILOR, PHILLIPS, MAITLAND, FAIRCHILD, SANTONI,
PISTELLA, COY, RAYMOND, MARSICO, ITKIN, ZIMMERMAN, THOMAS,
BELFANTI, LESCOVITZ, BISHOP, DONATUCCI, HERMAN, STABACK,
LEVDANSKY, SAYLOR, TRAVAGLIO, FEESE, HALUSKA, DRUCE, HARHART,
CLARK, ORIE, SEYFERT, GIGLIOTTI, B. SMITH, DALLY, HENNESSEY,
C. WILLIAMS, GRUPPO, TANGRETTI, MANDERINO, ROBERTS, BARD,
DiGIROLAMO, CLYMER, LAUGHLIN, WOJNAROSKI, ROSS, GEIST, WALKO,
PIPPY, BAKER, COWELL, OLASZ, HERSHEY, E. Z. TAYLOR, BOSCOLA,
MUNDY, ZUG, HORSEY, DeLUCA, CORRIGAN, STEELMAN, YOUNGBLOOD,
HUTCHINSON, ROONEY, MELIO, L. I. COHEN, STERN, JOSEPHS,
CORPORA, TRELLO AND MILLER, SEPTEMBER 30, 1997
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
SEPTEMBER 30, 1997
A RESOLUTION
1 Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding of the
2 Pennsylvania Community Providers Association.
3 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Community Providers Association was
4 incorporated on June 15, 1972, to represent community-based
5 mental health and mental retardation providers serving
6 Pennsylvanians; and
7 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Community Providers Association has
8 expanded its services since that time in response to community
9 needs to address issues related to substance abuse and the
10 children and youth system; and
11 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Community Providers Association
1 currently numbers over 240 member agencies that serve over a
2 quarter of a million Pennsylvanians in their respective
3 communities each year; and
4 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Community Providers Association has
5 distinguished itself in its commitment to working
6 collaboratively with other organizations and individuals that
7 share its goal of improving the community system of care; and
8 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Community Providers Association has
9 dedicated 25 years of service to providing advocacy and
10 information and promoting quality services on behalf of
11 agencies, organizations and individuals concerned with mental
12 health, mental retardation and addictive disease services; and
13 WHEREAS, The association has provided educational and
14 training opportunities for thousands of persons seeking to
15 improve their knowledge, skills and understanding related to
16 behavioral health and mental retardation; and
17 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Community Providers Association has
18 taken a leadership role in responding to the challenges,
19 problems and potential offered by the growth of managed
20 behavioral health care and was the catalyst in creating the
21 Community Behavioral HealthCare Network of Pennsylvania, a
22 Statewide network of community-based providers of behavioral
23 health services; and
24 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Community Providers Association has
25 worked tirelessly to live up to its mission of "promoting
26 quality community services for persons with mental illness,
27 mental retardation and addictive diseases" and is now a keystone
28 in this Commonwealth's community-based system of services;
29 therefore be it
30 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives commemorate the
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1 25th anniversary of the founding of the Pennsylvania Community
2 Providers Association and commend the association on its efforts
3 to improve the lives of persons with mental illness, mental
4 retardation and addictive diseases and those who serve them.
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