Family Service Agency honors community members for service

YOUNGSTOWN -- Family Service Agency, a Mahoning Valley nonprofit mental-health agency, celebrated National Family Week this week by recognizing clients, staff, board members and individuals from the community whose actions have enhanced the lives of families it serves.
Family Service Agency, in the valley since 1908, provides services through six general categories: Family counseling, rape information and education, family financial education, guardianship services for the elderly, kinship care program for grandparents and other relatives raising children of their kin, and the Daybreak Youth Crisis Shelter for adolescents who are runaways or otherwise homeless for short periods of time.
Recognition
Families recognized for their accomplishments in strengthening and preserving family life in the face of extraordinary challenges included:
Terri Williams and children.
Ann Marino and her caregiver and granddaughter, Jennifer Lusk.
Donna Morales and children.
Willie Williams and children;
Rose Powell and children.
Also honored were:
Allen Udell and Verna Kness, who have served on the Family Service Agency's Board of Trustees for 34 and 31 years, respectively.
Janis Baharis, FSA chief operating officer and Daybreak program director.
Dorothy Staaf, as outstanding community member, a therapeutic counselor for foster children and their families, and an employee of the Mahoning County Children's Service Agency.