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December 1994
 Mary Johnson
December 1994 Achiever of the Month Award recognized Mary Johnson of Manistee. Ms. Johnson came to the Manistee County Department of Social Services after falling and injuring her shoulder and neck in September 1991. In January of 1994 her doctor released her to limited work but she was not able to return to the restaurant work that she had previously done.
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November 1994
 Joyce Moore
Gerald Miller presented the November 1994 Achiever of the Month Award to Joyce Moore of Detroit. Ms. Moore needed public assistance after being diagnosed with cancer when her illness forced her to become unemployed. She was challenged by this adversity and while recuperating she participated in the Detroit-Self Employment Project. Ms. Moore formed a company called Multi-Case Systems.
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October 1994
 Charles W. Jones
The October 1994 Achiever of the Month Award was presented to Charles W. Jones of Saginaw who came to the Saginaw County Department of Social Services as a Social Contract volunteer. He became involved in the initial orientation sessions that staff were doing for the Social Contract. Mr. Jones is now running the show and comes in everyday, Monday through Friday form 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. Since coming to Saginaw as the head volunteer of the Social Contract orientation, Mr. Jones has also found ...
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September 1994
 Julie Kenville-Keyes
Julie Kenville-Keys of Clio, then a 33-year-old mother of four children, two of whom have special needs, was honored for her outstanding efforts and accomplishments as the September 1994 Achiever of the Month at Oakland County DSS. She was going full speed ahead then and has continued to do so ever since.
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August 1994
 Dennis & Terry Munger
The August 1994 Achiever of the Month ceremony was marked by a number of firsts.
For the first time since its inception, the Achiever program celebrated the accomplishments of a couple, Dennis and Terry Munger of Alger county.
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July 1994
 Jill Noack
Jill Noack of Berrien County, a single mother and parent advocate for families with special needs children, was the July 1994 Achiever of the Month.
Noack was selected because of her hard work and perseverance in completing her degree while going through a divorce and caring for three children, one of them a special needs child. At the time of her award, she had received an applied science degree in registered nursing from lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, passed her state boards and ...
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June 1994
 Trischa Mietz
Another Achiever who has continued to stay off AFDC is Trischa Mietz, a 27-year-old single parent from Bay City who was the June 1994 Achiever of the Month.
Mietz graduated from high school in Port Charlotte, Florida, but cam back to Michigan to be near her mother. AFDC became a necessity when she found she was expecting a baby in August of 1989. She request participation in the MOST Program after her son, Channing, was born in January of 1990.
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May 1994
 Dawn Alvarez
She went from public assistance to a top volunteer position at Monroe County DSS to holding two jobs.
That's the success story of Dawn Alvarez, the May 1994 Achiever of the Month. It was May 11, 1993 that Alvarez first attended an orientation at Monroe County DSS and made an appointment with the volunteer services coordinator. She registered as a volunteer just one week later and two weeks after that having arranged for child care, she began her service as a local office volunteer.
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April 1994
 Ellen Haase
DSS Director Gerald Miller presented the April 1994 Achiever of the Month award to Ellen Haase of Gratiot County. Miller selected Haase, a single parent, to receive the award because of her extraordinary efforts to make herself and her daughter independent of the welfare system.
Haase's AFDC benefits were closed in October of 1993 after she started working at the St. Louis Head Start. Her food stamp case was closed in February of 1994.
A 1993 MOST Program participant, Haase simultaneously ...
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March 1994
 Tiffany Thompson
Tiffany Thompson is a doer. When faced with obstacles, she accepts the challenge and forges her own path. In recognition of this determination, she was selected as the DSS Achiever of the Month for March 1994.
Thompson was familiar with AFDC, her family having received benefits when she was a child. So when her college career was interrupted by the birth of a son, she sought assistance from DSS. Scouting the resources in her community and looking toward independence, Thompson enrolled in a ...
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February 1994
 Cheryl Sorelle
When Cheryl Sorelle of Marquette became the fifth person to be recognized as an Achiever of the Month in February of 1994, the single parent of three children had been on AFDC during much of the previous five years.
She had taken a number of steps to reach self-sufficiency - one was to participate in the MOST Program and the other was to attend Northern Michigan University where she studied to become a medical transcriptionist.
She got a job at Marquette General Hospital where today she ...
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January 1994
 Kathy Green
The January 1994 Achiever was Kathy Green, a mother of six and former AFDC recipient. The ceremony was held at the Sanilac Career Center, where Green is employed supervising students who are being trained in food service.
Green's success story began several years before the Achiever event, initiated during a time of trial and adversity. She had been a nurse's aide at a rural community hospital for five years before her divorce.
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