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| As the youngest of seven siblings, Lucy Hall-Gainer barely knew her mother, who died of alcoholism when Lucy was six. But the impressions her mother made on her life inspired Lucy Hall to reach out to addicted women and women with children so that they could bridge the gap from troubled lives to become independent and self-supporting. Today, her dream is a reality with the founding of Mary Hall Freedom House (MHFH), named in memory of her mother. |
| A graduate of public schools in her native New York, Lucy Hall majored in Human Services at State University of Brockport and Schenectady College. She moved to Atlanta where she took a job as a resident counselor for a non-profit organization, |
| working with children who were wards of the state. She also took a job caring for the family of a prominent businessman, who offered her a chance to start her own business if she’d work for the family for a year. At the end of the year, she presented a business proposal to her employer and the MHFH mission began. For more information, view Lucy Hall-Gainer's full biography (Adobe Acrobat Reader needed). |
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| Awards |
| Lucy Hall has received one of the nation's highest honors for community health leadership, the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Program. The Community Health Leadership Award is a program that awards winners for their work to solve some of the most complex health and social service problems facing people in communities nationwide. |
| Lucy has been chosen by Working Mother magazine to receive a "Mom That Makes It Happen - Raising The Ruckus Award". |
| Lucy Hall was also selected as one of the winners of Atlanta Magazine's sixth annual Women Making a Mark. |
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