Doore receives AFFM Private Agency Worker of the Year Award

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine (AFFM) presented Stephanie Doore, program coordinator at Community Health and Counseling Services, with the Private Agency Worker of the Year Award at the annual spring training conference in April.

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HONORED FOR HER WORK — Community Health and Counseling Services Program Coordinator Stephanie Doore, right, was presented with the Adoptive and Foster Families of Maine (AFFM) Private Agency Worker of the Year Award. Pictured with Doore is AFFM board member Denise Card.

In recognizing Doore, AFFM board member Denise Card noted Doore “demonstrates by example how to stay grounded in the sea of change that is children’s mental health service and child welfare, and she does it with integrity, compassion, leadership and an impeccable work ethic.”

Card noted in Doore’s 23 years of working in foster care, “she has written over 3,000 pages for home studies, attended over 1,000 hours of team and community meetings and trained and worked with more than 125 foster families. Her empathic and uplifting support for foster families provides a positive example for all of the staff who work with families and children, whether foster, birth, kin or adoptive families. She is a compassionate advocate for foster parents and children in foster care, not only at Community Health and Counseling Services but also throughout Maine.”

Doore previously received national recognition in 2011 when the Foster Family-Based Treatment Association presented her with the Treatment Foster Care Professional of the Year Award.