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Awards Program

​“Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.”  G. Stern

As Patrollers, we all make sincere efforts to care for our patients, but here is your opportunity to ‘care for’ fellow
patrollers by nominating them for an award. You can recognize them for their extraordinary and distinguished service, abilities, or skills. Certain awards such as the DSA, NCOA, and Hall of Fame, are also available to non-patrollers for work they may have done to benefit the NSP.
The National Awards Program encourages supplementation of awards on the Division, Region and Patrol levels. This page will provide brief descriptions of National and Division Awards, and where to find the nomination forms.
  • You must first log into the NSP.org site, under Resources / Document Library, click on Awards
​The online documents will be listed in “blue”.  These forms must be completed online in electronic format. Efforts should be made to keep them in a WORD document.

The Division Awards Advisor can only accept awards from the Region Awards Advisor, so please follow the approval chain.

Please allow a reasonable time to receive the award back form National.  Once the Division Award Advisor receives the nomination, it will take approximately 45 days. 
ALL nominations must reflect the correct name and Patroller ID number for individuals in the approval process.
  • Division Awards’ Advisor:  Sue-Ellen Helmacy   #132510
  • Division Director:  Peter Buss  #164733
  • National Awards Advisor:  Richard Jacques #124823 
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Sue-Ellen Helmacy
Awards  Advisor
Ph# (862) 266-1208
send email 
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Region Award Advisors

​The following is a list of Region Awards Advisors you can find their contact information on their Region Website. If you have trouble contacting a Region Awards Advisor feel free to contact me. send email
  • Eastern Division: Sue-Ellen Helmacy - send email
    • Eastern Division Asst. Lainie McDonnell - send email
  • Central NY: Bert Ebling​ - send email
  • Connecticut: Rick Knight -​ send email
  • Eastern Mass & RI: Tim Breen - send email
  • Eastern NY: Bruce Geddes - send email
  • Eastern PA: David Marks - send email
  • ​Genesee Valley: Kristina Vasiliauskas​​ - send email​​
  • Maine: Christine Nathan​ - send email
  • New Hampshire: ​Paul Ciccone - send email
  • ​​New Jersey: Lainie McDonnell​ - send email
  • Northern VT: Amy Grover - send email
  • Southern NY: Roger Carlson - send email
  • Southern VT: Jennie Sakimura - send email
  • Western App: Marty Silverman - send email
    • ​Eva Silverman - send email
  • Western Mass: Laura Tucker - send email
  • Western NY: Ellen Conrad​ - send email
  • Certified: Peter Neefus - send email
  • Q Division: Steve Barnes - send email

 NSP Awards and Recognition Pages

NSP appreciates the hard work of members and acknowledges their service and dedication through a variety of awards. For a better understanding of these awards, use the below links.
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*To access these pages you need to be logged into the NSP.org site. To do so, follow these steps;
  • Go to:  nsp.org
  • Log in with your credentials
  • Top of the page, hover on "Member resources"
  • go to "Forms & documents"
  • Awards
  Follow this link to access the NSP Awards page - click here
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