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Amy B. Mansue, Mullica Hill – the CEO for Inspira Health Network, launched and expanded Inspira’s Community Health Worker Program that meets the needs of local residents where they are and connects them to community-based resources, including health care and social services. The program’s community health workers assist those who face barriers to achieving good health, and life goals such as education and securing employment that will support themselves and their families. The community health workers help address transportation, childcare, food insecurity, limited access to technology and other issues, while helping each person navigate the system and connect with community resources for their particular needs. Amy is also recognized for several other visionary healthcare initiatives, which show her willingness to work with community partners to create healthier and safer communities for the people of Cumberland County.
Jean Scarani, Pittsgrove – an educator, had this vision of understanding the need for childcare at a time when the only childcare available was with family or a neighbor. As a working mother of three young children, she needed daycare herself and had no options but a babysitter. She wanted her children to spend their days in a learning environment. Her eldest daughter was five years old when Scarani opened her first preschool. She founded the Centerton Country Day School, now known as the Upper Deerfield Preschool, in her garage in the early 1970s. She had the foresight to convert her garage to a classroom as the facility was renovated and, therefore, met the regulations and deemed to be an appropriate learning environment for three- and four-year-olds by the NJ Licensing Division. Jean personally guided its expansion for 50 years before turning it over to her daughter.
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