Albert B. Craig, Jr. Award for Innovation in Behavioral Health Grant

The Albert B. Craig, Jr. Award for Innovation in Behavioral Health honors individuals who inspire fresh thinking and innovative solutions in the field of behavioral health. Established in memory of Dr. Albert B. Craig, Jr., this award recognizes contributions that improve lives through unique partnerships or novel approaches, including products or processes that alleviate mental illness or addiction. Recipients are not limited to Southwestern Pennsylvania, but their work must benefit individuals in the region.

Albert B. Craig, Jr., MD served as the President of the Staunton Farm Foundation until 1991. During his years on the Board of Trustees, he gave from a boundless reservoir of creativity, kindness, and generosity of spirit, challenging trustees and staff to search for the best ideas to improve behavioral health in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Dr. Craig brought to the Foundation the same concern for people and love of inquiry that were apparent in his career as a Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Rochester Medical School. He led the Staunton Farm Foundation in its work to improve the lives of people with behavioral health issues by supporting programs of proven merit as well as those that test new approaches to advancing behavioral health.
The purpose of the Albert B. Craig, Jr. Award is to recognize people who have challenged society to think in fresh ways about problems and solutions in behavioral health; to forge new paths, whether through uncommon partnerships or new ways of serving people with behavioral health issues; or who have invented a product or process that has alleviated mental illness/addiction. Recipients of the award need not reside in Southwestern Pennsylvania, but their contributions must have an impact on individuals in this region.