[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 8, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E17]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    IN HONOR OF DR. WILLIAM CLAIBORN

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                          HON. JAMES P. MORAN

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, January 7, 2003

  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge the 
accomplishments of Dr. William Claiborn during his 21 years of 
outstanding and dedicated service as Executive Director of the 
Alexandria Community Services Board and Director of Mental Health, 
Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse.
  Over the course of his career, Dr. Claiborn has taken the Alexandria 
Community Services Board from an organization of four facilities to a 
nationally recognized provider serving over 4,000 Alexandrians in 63 
facilities. Under his dynamic leadership, the Community Services Board 
has made many tremendous accomplishments. From creating a nationally 
recognized Sober Living Unit at the Alexandria Detention Center to 
establishing the Parent-Infant Education Program that assists infants 
with developmental disabilities and their families, Dr. Claiborn has 
consistently gone above and beyond the call of duty to help others.
  Dr. Claiborn's extraordinary commitment to improving the lives of his 
fellow Alexandrians, Virginians and Americans suffering from mental 
health problems; mental retardation and substance abuse has been a true 
blessing to those in need. His work in partnering with state and 
regional leaders led to the development of new Medicaid rules in 1989, 
representing a major positive change in social policy. Dr. Claiborn 
also spearheaded a regional cooperative effort to provide funding and 
carry out the discharge of people from state hospitals into the care of 
the Community Services Boards, where they would receive better 
treatment and higher quality care.
  Mr. Speaker, it is with the greatest pleasure that I recognize Dr. 
Claiborn today. He is a brilliant and exceptionally compassionate 
public servant who has devoted his life to the betterment of our 
society and the people of Alexandria, Virginia, a city in which he has 
long served. The benefits of Dr. Claiborn's tireless efforts on behalf 
of the less fortunate will resonate not only in the present, but 
throughout Alexandria's history for decades to come.

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