National Roll of Achievers

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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