2019 Governor’s Honor Award announced

The recipients of the 2019 Governor’s Honor Awards are: Enhancing the Prosperity and Quality of Life in Rural Virginia: Exceptional contributions in support of the Governor’s plan of building a stronger Virginia by demonstrating a positive impact on rural community development. Yvonne Frazier, James Madison University.

Yvonne has provided exemplary leadership as the Program Manager for Healthy Families, Page and Shenandoah Counties. Her stellar administrative skills have ensured that rural, low-income parents have the tools they need to guide and care for their children, to improve their education and employment status and to ensure that their children are healthy and prepared for school. Yvonne’s creativity, innovation and fearlessness have spawned numerous public private partnerships resulting in a new child care center, expanded rural family access to Baby Boxes, safe sleep practice training and countless learning opportunities for JMU students from a variety of disciplines.