Bobbie Lake Award

2025 Bobbie Lake Family Member Award

About the Bobbie Lake Award

The Bobbie Lake Family Member Leadership and Advocacy Award was created in honor of family member, Bobbie Lake, who had a tremendous impact on Florida’s disability community through his advocacy and leadership. His life’s journey included serving as a Council member of the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council as well as serving on the board for the Arc of Florida and as a board member, and later as the Executive Director of the Arc of North Florida. His advocacy to improve his daughter’s quality of life and the lives of others with developmental disabilities left a profound mark on Florida’s developmental disability community. He provided strong leadership to improve the quality of life and services for Floridians with developmental disabilities to include them fully in their communities. This new annual award program will be facilitated by the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council each year, starting in 2025, during Developmental Disabilities (DD) Awareness Day to recognize family members who are committed to advocating and/or serving in leadership roles for Floridians with developmental disabilities and their families.

Award timeline:

Call for Nominations – 2/10/2025
Deadline for Submitting Online – 2/24/2025 – 5 p.m.
Recipient Notified – 2/27/2025
Presentation of Award – 3/10/2025

For additional information or to submit a form, contact margaretd@fddc.org.

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Nomination Questions:

Please be as specific as possible when answering the following questions. Please limit your responses to actions that occurred during the past two years.

Is the nominee a Floridian and a family member of a person who has a developmental disability?(Required)

(a disability an individual was born with or manifested before age 18.)

Yes

List all instances, within the past two years, where the Nominee has demonstrated advocacy and/or leadership activities in keeping with the spirit of Bobbie Lake and has achieved positive outcomes for Floridians with developmental disabilities and their families.(Required)

How did the individual’s advocacy and/or leadership improve services for Floridians with developmental disabilities and/or support positive systems change?(Required)

How did the individual demonstrate outcomes based on their advocacy and/or leadership roles?(Required)

List all instances, within the past two years, where the Nominee has embraced the Florida developmental disability community and worked with groups while encouraging others to do so by example.(Required)

How did the individual develop or support development of any community partnerships?(Required)

How did the individual go the extra mile in terms of making known the abilities and needs of Floridians with developmental disabilities with groups and Florida policymakers?(Required)

List any advocacy group(s) of which the Nominee is currently a member.(Required)

List any offices the Nominee holds with the group(s).(Required)

Please add additional information you feel is unique about the Nominee and their enthusiasm in keeping with the spirit of Bobbie Lake.(Required)

(Please limit your responses to a maximum of six pages, including the Nomination Form. )

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