SCCPSS Student Affairs Director Named 2025 Ron Alt Service Award Winner

The 2025 National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference is being held March 2-5, here in Savanah at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.  Our own Director of Student and Family Services, Dr. Quentina Miller-Fields, was honored at the conference Sunday night with the prestigious Ron Alt Service Award.

Introduced in 2018, the Ron Alt Service Award honors the spirit of selfless service that he embodied throughout his life. His work is legendary and this award commemorates his great desire to serve and help foster the well-being of children and youth everywhere. The inaugural Ron Alt Service Award was presented to the family of Ron Alt after his passing. Each year, the Conference Planning Council selects a community member who leads by example and who embodies this same selfless service.

Past Recipients of the award include:

2024

Ann Levett

Former SCCPSS Superintendent of Schools

2023

Michael O’Neal
Parent University
Community United Services, Inc.

2022

Dr. Evelyn Baker Dandy
Professor Emeritus of Armstrong Atlantic State University

 2021

Judge Lisa Colbert
Chatham County Juvenile Court

2020

Dan Rea, Ed.D.
Former National Youth-At-Risk Conference Chair

2019

Otis Johnson, Ph.D.
Former Mayor of Savannah, Georgia

2018

Ron Alt, MHS
Former Director of the Housing Authority of Savannah Drug Elimination Program.

The mission of the National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference is to conference trains adults who serve youth to create safe, healthy, caring, and intellectually empowering educational environments that foster the well-being of all children and adolescents. To accomplish this mission, the conference offers 100+ presentations by nationally and internationally recognized presenters to 1400+ national and international conference participants.

In these presentations, participants learn about current research-based educational programs and strategies, which empower young people to overcome social, intellectual, and emotional barriers that may threaten their safety, health, emotional needs, and academic achievement. Participants also gain knowledge of proactive solutions and best practices for meeting the serious challenges faced by youth today such as school violence, poverty, learning difficulties, underachievement, achievement gaps, illiteracy, boredom, apathy, low expectations, misbehavior, dropout, drugs, bullying, gangs, teen pregnancy, sexual harassment, racism, and dysfunctional families. Furthermore, participants gain effective educational tools to build strong caring schools, communities, and families, which can meet the diverse needs of all our young people.

Congratulations to Dr. Fields!