The Mental Health Matters Volunteer Team and its leader Ann Lippincott are the recipients of the 2023 Founder’s Award from the Association for Women in Communications Santa Barbara (AWC-SB).
The award is presented in recognition of the group’s work improving the mental wellness of thousands of people in the community every year. Mental Health Matters (MHM) is a program of the Mental Wellness Center in Santa Barbara.
Created in 2000, MHM introduces basic facts about mental health to elementary, middle and high school students. Since 2011, Lippincott has chaired the Mental Wellness Center education committee, which responsible for the developing and teaching the MHM curricula.
Lippincott and the Mental Health Matters Volunteer Team will be recognized at the AWC-SB Holiday Party, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 13 at Villa Wine Bar, 618 Anacapa St., Ste. 1867, Santa Barbara.
AWC-SB’s Member of the Year Joan Tapper will also be honored at the event. A freelance writer and book and magazine editor, Tapper serves on the AWC-SB Board of Directors as co-director of programming.
For more about the holiday party and to buy tickets, visit https://awcsb.org/awcsb-2023-annual-holiday-party/.
The Association for Women in Communications is a national organization that helps women develop the communication skills they need to succeed in a variety of fields. Communications consultant Lois Phillips, publisher Mindy Bingham, and producer Deborah Hutchison founded the Santa Barbara chapter of the Association in 2006.
Today, AWC-SB membership includes journalists and broadcasters, entrepreneurs, designers and marketers, authors, corporate communicators, photographers, coaches, and public relations experts. For more on upcoming meetings and events, visit awcsb.org.