About the Award
The Murray L. Vincent Outstanding Prevention Professional Award is the highest and most distinguished award given by Fact Forward. In honor of Dr. Murray Vincent, the award recognizes an individual who has significantly impacted the prevention of adolescent pregnancy in South Carolina while exemplifying the characteristics of the award’s namesake. Although we won't have Summer Institute 2020, it’s still important to honor a prevention professional who is a champion in their community. The 2020 Murray L. Vincent Outstanding Prevention Professional Award will be personally presented in 2020. The winner will be recognized at the 2021 Summer Institute alongside the 2021 recipient. Recipients of the award will receive a $500 stipend to continue their prevention work and a lifetime scholarship to the Summer Institute.
Former Award Winners
2019: Kristen Fouts, Anderson School District Three
2018: Melanie Dees, Director of the Diamonds Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
2016: Suzan Alexander, SCDHEC
2015: Darnell McPherson, Darlington County First Steps
2014: Sarah Brown, Former CEO of Power to Decide
Shedron Williams, SC Representative for District 122 (Beaufort, Hampton & Jasper Counties)
2012: Stacey McPhail, PRISMA Health
2011: Carol Singletary, Fact Forward
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2010: Aimee Lassor, Communities in Schools
2010: Dr. Janice Key, MUSC
2009: Rev. Don Flowers, Fact Forward Emeritus Board Member
2008: Michelle Nimmons, Bamberg School District
