CLESE Awards & Acheivements
- Brookdale Award for CLESE for its pioneering work in developing homecare training material and in serving ethnic clients with ethnic homecare workers in 1992.
- Health Care Financing Administration for success in improving the lives of older adults in 1995.
- “Innovations in Caregiving Award” from the National Council on Aging in 1999.
- CLESE was highlighted as the first “spotlight” on the Administration on Aging’s website in 2000.
- The CLESE Executive Director Beth O’Grady was named a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging.
- The American Society on Aging gives the “Healthcare and Aging” award in 2007.
- The American Society on Aging gives the “NOMA Award for Excellence in Multicultural Aging in 2008.
- The Grantmakers in Aging gives the John Feather Diversity Award in 2009.
- The CLESE Executive Director Marta Pereyra Co-chaired the American Society on Aging National Conference on Aging in Chicago in March 2013.
- CLESE receives The John A. Hartford 2018 Business Innovation Award from the Business and Disability Institute for its works with managed care organizations in Illinois
- House of Representatives of the 101st General Assembly of the State of Illinois presents an Honorary Resolution to CLESE in 2019 and commends its dedication to raising awareness of the needs and unique contributions of immigrant and refugee older adults.
- The Health and Medicine Policy Research Group awards CLESE in 2020 for its efforts to promote social justice and challenging inequities in health and healthcare.
- The Grantmakers in Aging awarded CLESE the 2020 Diversity Award in the recognition of programming that embrace diversity as a fundamental element of our work in aging.