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Home / Awards / Servitor Pacis Award / 1996 THE SERVITOR PACIS AWARD RECIPIENTS 1996 - Sister Mary Rose McGeady, D.C. Sister Mary Rose McGeady D.C., of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, became President and Chief Executive Officer of Covenant House on 1 September 1990. She earned her B.A. in Sociology from Emmanuel College (Boston) and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology at Fordham University (New York). Subsequently, she pursued doctoral studies in the same field at Fordham and the University of Massachusetts. Her professional career began at Nazareth Child Care Center in Boston, where she worked with homeless and disturbed children and their families. She also served as Executive Director of the Astor Home and Clinic for Children in Rhinebeck, New York, a treatment center for disturbed children and youth. In the years following, she worked for Brooklyn Catholic Charities, eventually becoming Executive Director of the Kennedy Child Study Center in New York City. In 1981 she became provincial of the Daughters of Charity, where she was responsible for the work of her order in 9 hospitals, 17 schools, 5 child care agencies and other responsibilities throughout 11 States. Covenant House, where she presently serves, is dedicated to the care and rehabilitation of street children in 12 U.S. cities as well as in Canada, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. Under her leadership, services have been expanded continually, with 41,000 children cared for in 1995. The program has been enriched by the addition of job training and placement for older adolescents, and an apartment program for re-establishing them in the community. Each site includes a Community Service Center, which seeks to serve children at risk, to prevent runaways and to assist families survive. Since its inception, Covenant House has served close to 2,000,000 children.
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