Ossining Residents Win Service Awards from Leake & Watts

Lois Simmonds of Ossining received a 40-Year Service Award this week at Leake & Watts' Annual Employee Excellence Award dinner. Ms. Simmonds is a supervisor of the home finding unit at the agency's Family Foster Care program. (Ms. Simmonds is shown above with Alan Mucatel, executive director of Leake & Watts.)

Carlton Mitchell, also of Ossining, was recognized for 30 years of service. He is director of Preventive Services, a program that helps stabilize at-risk families.

Leake & Watts is an award-winning human-services agency with 1,400 employees, operating 47 programs at 27 sites to provide vital support to 13,000 of the most vulnerable children, adults, and families in New York City and Westchester.