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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives are pleased to congratulate Kathleen Connor
4 Roberts on her retirement as Executive Director of LifeLinks in
5 Mattoon; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Kathleen Connor Roberts has served as Executive
7 Director of LifeLinks since 1985; LifeLinks was formerly known
8 as the Coles County Mental Health Center; and
 
9     WHEREAS, From 1981 to 1985 she served as a Social Worker
10 and Field Office Coordinator for The Baby Fold in Normal; from
11 1973 to 1978 she was Child Welfare Caseworker with the
12 Tippecanoe County Department of Welfare in Lafayette, Indiana;
13 and from 1970 to 1972 Kathleen Connor Roberts served as a
14 Public Information Assistant with the Children's Television
15 Workshop in New York City; and
 
16     WHEREAS, Kathleen Connor Roberts has a Master's in Social
17 Work from the School of Social Work at the University of
18 Illinois in Urbana and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from
19 MacMurray College in Jacksonville; and
 
20     WHEREAS, Kathleen Connor Roberts is a member of the
21 Illinois Community Behavioral Health Association, the Illinois

 

 

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1 Community Behavioral Health Association Governmental
2 Affairs/Public Policy Group, the Regional Behavioral Health
3 Network Board, the Midwest Behavioral Healthcare Systems, the
4 University of Illinois School of Social Work Alumni Board, the
5 National Association of Social Workers, the Child Welfare
6 League of America, and the Illinois Council on Family
7 Relations; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Kathleen Connor Roberts plans to travel and do
9 private consulting upon her retirement; she will enjoy her
10 retirement along with her husband, Robert Butts; her son,
11 Joshua (Martha) Roberts; her daughter, Elizabeth (Travis)
12 Welch; and her grandchildren, Matthew and Claire Welch;
13 therefore, be it
 
14     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
15 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
16 congratulate Kathleen Connor Roberts on her retirement; and be
17 it further
 
18     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
19 presented to Kathleen Connor Roberts as a symbol of our respect
20 and esteem.