Events & Announcements

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2nd Annual Deborah Feldstein Bartfeld Memorial Scholarship Breakfast

On August 31, 2011, Key held its Second Annual Deborah Feldstein Bartfeld Memorial (DFB) Scholarship Breakfast at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Natick, MA. 

The Deborah Feldstein Bartfeld Memorial Scholarship fund is designed to award scholarships to individuals enrolled in a formal MSW or other licensed mental health counseling program and who have demonstrated commitment to the field of social work/child welfare, specifically with “at risk youth and families”.

The goals of the clinical scholarship program are:

• To provide a monetary award that makes meaningful contribution to the recipient’s education;  
• To establish a long-term relationship with the recipients; and
• To enhance Key’s clinical resources.

Since the inception of the DFB Memorial Scholarship in 2004, AYF has awarded 100 graduate school scholarships totaling approximately $500,000.

Our non-Key scholarship recipients for the 2011-2012 academic year joined Key’s Management Team, President William Lyttle and some of Key’s clinical staff for a breakfast meeting.  The primary purpose of the breakfast was to share information about Key’s history, mission, programs, clinical services and future clinical needs. Additionally, recipients were able to network with other graduate students and Key staff to discuss their own career plans, Key internships, field placements and volunteer opportunities.  Graduate-level internship opportunities are reviewed in the Internship tab on this website. 

For this year’s breakfast, we added a clinical component that recipients found insightful and informative.  Don Casella, LICSW (Assistant Clinical Director for the Western Region), was our featured speaker.  Don gave an interesting talk about the needs of the youth and families Key serves and how those needs have changed over time, new State Agency service initiatives and future roles and directions for clinicians.  We also had a Clinician’s panel that was made up of three clinical staff from across the Agency; Nancy Fillio, LICSW (Regional Clinical Supervisor, Northeast Region and Children’s Charter), Lynn Meehan, LICSW (Regional Program Supervisor, Southeast Region), and Kelley Hendricken, LICSW (Regional Clinical Supervisor, Central Region).  The panelists spoke about their own clinical careers, roles and experiences at Key and then took questions from the audience.    A great big thank you to everyone who made the morning such a success!  

Again this year, through the Alternatives for Youth Foundation (AYF) the DFB scholarship was promoted directly to Key’s supervisory and direct care staff (both former and current). We had an amazing response and eighteen graduate school scholarships were awarded to the following current and former employees:

Congratulations to all our scholarship recipients and best wishes for a successful academic year! 

Featured Speaker, Don Casella, LICSW, Assistant Clinic Director	Recipient Caitlin Sevigny, BC with her parents, Rob and Deb Sevigny	2011-2012 Non-Key DFB Scholarship Recipients From Left to Right: Cynthia Hay, Director of Management/Human Resources, Scholarship Coordinator, Sarah Kroesser, BU, Kelly Lindsey, Salem State, Elizabeth Cox, RIC, Elizabeth Kerr, BU, William Lyttle, President, Caitlin Sevigny, BC, Karin Effland, BU, Helene Hastings, BU, Krista Andberg, Salem State
Central MA Clinician, Kristy Bosma and Panelist, Kelley Hendricken, Regional Clinical Supervisor	Don Casella, LICSW, Assistant Clinic Director and Connie Ryan, LICSW, Director of SE/RI Operations enjoying breakfast	Right to Left: Director of NE/Central Operations, Joel Tragash, visiting with two of our panelists, Lynn Meehan, LICSW, Regional Program Supervisor, SE, and Nancy Fillio, LICSW, Regional Clinical Supervisor, NE and Children's Charter
Left to Right: Recipients, Sarah Kroesser, BU, Elizabeth Kerr, BU, Krista Andberg, Salem State, and Karin Effland, BU	Left to Right: Recipient, Helene Hastings, BU, and Chief Operating Officer, Wesley Cotter