Northwestern Counseling & Support Services (NCSS) Alison Krompf received the Total Clinical Outcomes Management Award from the John Praed Foundation, an academic research center through the University of Chicago Chapin Hall, for her passion and leadership in spreading the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessment (CANS) and outcomes management in Vermont. She received the international award while attending the Total Clinical Outcomes Management Conference in November 2016, an annual gathering of experts working in the field of caring for children and families.

James Kurfis has joined Davis & Hodgdon Associates CPAs as an Associate Accountant. James graduated from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Science, as well as from Champlain College where he earned the Advanced Accounting Certificates. James has also proudly served in the Army as a Medical Operations Sergeant involving several deployments overseas. He has experience with individual, business, and non-profit tax returns, and he also provides bookkeeping and analytic support to small business clients, nonprofits and homeowners associations.