KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — It’s not too often that state employees receive national recognition for the work they do in protecting older adults. But a local supervisor in charge of several area programs for all of East Tennessee has been honored for her work.
The award for Tracy Armstrong came from a group called Inform USA. She supervises three programs with long names for the East Tennessee Human Resources Agency, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). For the Area Agency on Aging, she is responsible for the collaborative response to end self-neglect in Tennessee, called CREST, and the collaborative response to elder and vulnerable adult abuse, or CREVAA. Whatever her task, she and her staff are there to lift people in need.
“I would have died. They never would come check on me,” said Hazel in June 2019. She was helped by one of the agencies that Armstrong manages, CREVAA, which provides people like Hazel, an abused and vulnerable adult, with short-term emergency services.
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For her work with the elderly, Armstrong has received the coveted Inform USA Award, a national recognition for providing and advocating for community services for needy adults…