Forest Park resident Janiene Garcia receives Dominican's Outstanding Service Leadership Award

RIVER FOREST, IL (05/03/2011)(readMedia)-- Janiene Garcia, a resident of Forest Park, recently received the Outstanding Service Leadership Award from Dominican University for her extraordinary service on campus and in the larger community.

Garcia worked with Nuestros Pequenos-Ecuador to create an assessment of seven Ecuadorean communities in greatest need. She also spent a year working with children who had experienced abuse and/or neglect at Mi Casa in Mexico. She has an outstanding record of local and national service with PADS, a west suburban program serving the homeless; Project Lazarus, an organization that provides assisted living to people with AIDS; and AmeriCorps. Last fall she presented at Dominican's Caritas et Veritas Symposium and organized student participation in non-violence training and the annual protest of the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, GA. She now serves as a graduate assistant with Dominican University's Graduate School of Social Work.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor's degrees through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and master's degrees through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, and the Graduate School of Social Work. The university also offers a doctoral degree in library and information science. In the 2011 issue of America's Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dominican University in the top 20 of Midwest master's level universities. The magazine also ranked Dominican as one of three Great Schools at a Great Price in Illinois.