Highlights from our May 24, 2102 Meeting
Posted by Michael Braun
on May 26, 2012
The 2012 Chrysanne Manoles Women In Leadership Award was presented to Katey Taylor, president and co-founder of the Abby's Hope Charitable Foundation. Dr. Terri Rose of Baby Space was our featured speaker after the award presentation.
Katey Taylor is president and co-founder of the Abbey's Hope Charitable Foundation. Katey had been a "typical" stay-at-home mom until June 29, 2007. It was on that summer evening that one of her four daughters, 6-year-old Abbey, was disemboweled by a faulty drain in a wading pool. Over the next nine months Abbey would endure 16 surgeries and a triple-organ transplant, before finally losing her battle in March 2008.
Abbey's hope was that what happened to her would never happen to another child. In her name, the Taylors formed Abbey's Hope Charitable Foundation in July 2008. To fulfill Abbey's legacy, Katey and her husband, Scott, work to advocate for children and to educate parents, community leaders and others of the dangers in and around pools.
For more information about Katey Taylor and Abbey's Hope Charitable Foundation go to http://abbeyshope.orgSee photos from this meeting in the Photo Album section of this website.