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Ecker Center celebrates 60 years with awards breakfast

The Ecker Center for Mental Health will hold its 2015 Awards Breakfast from 7 to 9 a.m. Thursday, May 14, at Elgin Country Club, 2575 Weld Road in Elgin. This year's awards breakfast coincides with the agency's 60th anniversary.

Join them for networking, breakfast buffet, piano music, and a celebration of five outstanding organizations and individuals who have made major contributions to the Ecker Center's work and have helped it prevail as a vital community resource for people with mental illnesses.

Tickets are $35 per person, which includes a $16 donation to the Ecker Center.

To RSVP, by Wednesday, May 6, call (847) 695-0484, ext. 1913.

This year's award recipients are:

• Maurine Withers Award: Renz Center Executive Director Jerry Skogmo;

• Dene Ecker Award: Tom Anderson, board chairman, Fox Valley Mental Health Foundation;

• Business Partner Award: Preferred Management, Jeff Kellenberger, owner;

• Friends of Ecker Award: Genoa, a QoL Healthcare Company, Tracy Jordan, pharmacy manager, and Rafael Hernandez, pharmacy tech;

• Distinguished Client Service Award: Oberia Campbell, Ecker Center's mental health professional.

To make a reservation or donation for the event, visit www.eckercenter.org.

Founded in 1955, the Ecker Center for Mental Health provides an array of outpatient mental health services primarily to adults with mental illness and their families. Services range from early intervention to recovery and include crisis, psychiatric, case management, rehabilitation, residential and psychotherapy assistance. Crisis, psychiatry and counseling services are available to children and adolescents. They have offices in Elgin, St. Charles and Streamwood.

The Ecker Center provides sliding fee scale services to residents of 10 townships in the northern two-thirds of Kane County and two townships (Barrington and Hanover) in Cook County.

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