Indiana
Constance Causey
Ms. Causey was an AFDC mother of nine children. She graduated from high
school in 1967 and in 1992, through the IMPACT/Job Works program, she
took refresher courses to prepare for college entry. She received her
Bachelor's Degree in Social Work in 1997. Currently she is a case manager
for Vincent House, Inc., a homeless shelter and transitional housing
program that accepts two-parent families with children and single parents
(mothers or fathers) with children. She has been the president of McCormick
Place Apartment Tenant Council since 1995 and serves on the Agency's
Board of Commissioners. She is also the treasurer of Fort Wayne Housing
Authority's Housing Residential Presidents, Inc. (HRPI), the central
resident council for public housing residents.
Sponsored by:
Fort Wayne Housing Authority
Fort Wayne, IN
Mary Huffman
Ms. Huffman is the president of H.R.P., Inc. (Housing Residential Presidents,
Incorporated) and has served in that capacity for several years. H.R.P.,
Inc. is comprised of the presidents of each of the housing resident
councils. Ms Huffman has worked tirelessly and unselfishly to assist
the housing authority's high-rises and family developments. For the
past six years, she has worked with the Fort Wayne Christmas Bureau
to provide Christmas gifts for 30 to 40 of the housing authority's families.
Her relationship with that organization prompted them to donate two
thousand dollars last year and one thousand this year to the housing
authority to assist the residents. She has worked with the community
food bank to provide turkeys to the housing authority's senior and disabled
residents for the holidays, and on several occasions she has even provided
the meal for the residents herself.
Ms. Huffman remains ever the visionary and refuses to give into a lot
of the negativity that is inherent in her efforts. "I know that
many times when I feel like surrendering, she is there to re-energize
me and I cannot think of anyone who is more deserving," Jack Howell,
Resident Services Director, Fort Wayne Housing Authority.
Sponsored by:
Fort Wayne Housing Authority
Fort Wayne, IN
3/01/2001
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