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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Talbert House President receives Margaret Mead Award
from International Community Corrections Association (ICCA)CINCINNATI, OHIO (October 11, 2004)—Talbert House President Neil Tilow was presented with the prestigious Margaret Mead Award at the 2004 International Community Corrections Association (ICCA) Annual Conference held October 3-6 in Cincinnati.
The Margaret Mead Award recognizes outstanding individuals in community corrections. It is presented to an individual who has shown dedicated service to the causes of social justice and humanitarian advancement.Tilow has demonstrated this during his tenure as Talbert House President since 1982. The agency has grown from four programs with a budget of $1 million to a budget of more than $31 million in 2004.
“I have benefited from Neil’s dedicated service to the causes of social justice and humanitarian advancement. He is selfless in sharing what he has learned and absolutely passionate about his dedication to this field. He tries to teach us all to think outside the box,” said Denise Robinson, ICCA President. “I have been struck by Neil’s insight and wit. He has become one of my primary mentors in this field,” Robinson said.
Tilow continues to think outside the box as Talbert House meets the community’s emerging re-entry needs with new collaborative initiatives to mentor the children of incarcerated parents, as well as offer services for offenders and their families.
“With regard to Neil and receiving this award, it seems fitting to quote Margaret Mead when she said, ‘I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.’ By this measure and by many others, Neil is quite a success,” Robinson said.
Tilow is a past ICCA president, and has served as consultant to a number of nonprofit and government agencies, including the National Institute of Corrections and the Ohio Department of Mental Health. He is one of the founders of five different provider network organizations and is currently Board Chair of OhioLink, Inc. He serves as Secretary of the ACT Board, is on the Glad House Advisory Board, The Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center Advisory Board as well as the Coalition for a Drug Free Greater Cincinnati, the Coalition for Behavioral Health, Inc. and Mental Health Works, Inc.
Margaret Mead was a social anthropologist, psychologist, teacher, lecturer, writer and observer of human behavior. Mead visited Talbert House annually and worked closely with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. Before passing away in 1978, she gave ICCA permission to use her name for its most prestigious award.
For more information about ICCA, visit www.iccaweb.org.
