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    Quality Senior Living Awards

                                                     

    Purpose of the FCOA/FPL QSLA:  To recognize individuals and organizations whose efforts have improved the quality of life of older Floridians.

    General Criteria for FCOA/FPL QSLA: The accomplishments of the individual or organization should:

    • Benefit Florida’s older adults and
    • Be deserving of statewide recognition

     

    Award Categories:  All nominees must meet the general criteria stated above and the specified criteria stated for each category below:

    • Service to Seniors by an Organization Award: The nominee must be a business, private or public organization that does not have service to older adults in Florida as its primary focus. The description of the organization’s activities must reflect the monetary value and/or human capital (volunteer or staff time) associated with the services provided to seniors. Organizations can nominate themselves.

    • Senior Vision Media Award: The nominee must be an individual or organization that has created special news coverage campaigns to promote a positive image of aging.  Examples: news stories or series with an extended storyline, across-the-board social media products, wide-ranging radio and public service announcements, videos, advertisements, billboards, books, and posters. Media content should be the focus, not the actual program. 


    • Dr. Carter Osterbind Outstanding FCOA Member Award: The nominee must be a Florida Council on Aging member in good standing, who has demonstrated statewide service and support of FCOA, whose activities on behalf of older adults in Florida reflect a high level of individual commitment or high standard of organizational excellence, and must have statewide impact. Nominees may be individuals or organizations (nonprofit, public or for-profit).

    • Public Service Award: The nominee can be a volunteer of any age in Florida, in which the area of service can include: seniors in service to seniors, youth in service to seniors or seniors in service to youth. Nominee can be an individual or organization.

     

    2025 QSLA WINNERS

    Public Service Award

    Francina White

    Public Service Award

    Bianca Maria Ceballos

    Public Service Award

    Ava Weissman

                                                               
    Service to Seniors by an Organization

    Nature Coast Community Band

                                                                           
    Senior Vision Media Award

    Council on Aging of West Florida & Appleyard Duncan McCall

    2024 QSLA WINNERS

    Dr. Carter Osterbind Outstanding FCOA Member Award

    Sheila Salyer

    Senior Vision Media Award

    Ronnie Lovler, Mainstreet Daily News

    Public Service Award

    Dr. Janette Campbell

                                                               
    Service to Seniors by an Organization

    New Life Village

    2023 QSLA WINNERS

     
    Dr. Carter Osterbind Outstanding FCOA Member Award

    Florida Blue 

     

     
    Senior Vision Media Award

    Janice Martin

    Senior Vision Media

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    Janie Bennet

     
    Public Service Award

    SAGES Theater, Inc.

     

     

     

    Service to Seniors by an Organization
    Florida Blue Foundation

     

     

     

    2022 QSLA WINNERS

     
    Dr. Carter Osterbind Outstanding FCOA Member Award

    James D. Huysman, PsyD, LCSW

    WellMed Medical Management of Florida, Inc., Fort Lauderdale

     

     
    Senior Vision Media Award

    Dr. Dennis Dulniak

    Central Florida Dementia-friendly Dining, Lake Mary

    Public Service Award

    Rosemary R. Nixon, EncorePBC, Delray Beach

     
    Public Service Award

    Shawn Martinez, AVUS Connect, Miami

     

     

     

    Service to Seniors by an Organization
    Florida Veterans Foundation, Inc.,  

    Tallahassee

     

     

    2021 QSLA WINNERS

     
    Public Service Award
    Pine Hills Seniors Inc., Orlando

     


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    Senior Vision Media Award
     
    Growing Bolder, Orlando

     

     
    Service to Seniors by an Organization Award
    Kiwanis Club of Tampa, Tampa
     

    Click here to view the
    2021 FPL Quality Senior Living Awards Presentation

     

     

    2020 QSLA WINNERS


     
    Public Service Award
    Clarence Faucett, Largo

     
    Service to Seniors by an Organization Award
    Highlands County Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, Sew You Care, Avon Park

     


     
    Senior Vision Media Award
     
    SAGES Theater Inc. (Senior Actors Guild & Education Services), Clearwater
     

    Click here to view the
    2020 FPL Quality Senior Living Awards Presentation


     
     

     

    2019 QSLA WINNERS

    Dr. Carter Oserbind Outstanding FCOA Member
    Susan Ponder-Stansel, Community Hospice & Palliative Care, Jacksonville

    Public Service Award
    Judith Mathewson, Melbourne

     

    Service to Seniors by an Organization Award
    Peaden Air Conditioning, Plumbing & Electrical, Pensacola


     
    Senior Vision Media Award
     
    Sonya Dunbar, The Geriatric Toothfairy, Jacksonville

     

    2018 QSLA WINNERS


     Dr. Carter Osterbind
    Outstanding FCOA Member Award

    Charlotte McHenry, Senior Connection Center, Tampa

     

    Public Service Award
    Mary Bartoshuk, LaBelle

     

    Service to Seniors by an Organization Award
    Glades County Public Schools, Moore Haven

     

    Senior Vision Media Award
    Life Enrichment Center, Tampa