The Frances McClelland Youth Vision Award is given to honor a youth leader or group of leaders who are working towards improving the well-being of children, youth, families, and community. The youth embody the strength, dedication, vision and passion that Frances McClelland exhibited throughout her life and youth. This award is for a youth leader or a group of leaders who inspire hope for Arizona’s future.  Frances overcame adversity through her life and manifested resilience. We are looking for youth that embody Frances’ spirit of valuing her immigrant roots, overcoming adversity, and demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges. We are looking for future professionals who will work with individuals and families in careers of family, health, criminal justice, psychology, social work, healthcare practitioners, teaching, and other related fields. The youth leader or group of leaders should be between 11-22 years old.

Project Smile AZ was founded by two brothers, Hurshneet and Pravneet Chadha, with the goal of spreading Smiles for those impacted by COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic lockdown, they realized the effects of isolation on the mental health of people recovering from the virus and virtually recruited volunteers across the world to make handmade cards. Project Smile AZ started off with sending motivating messages to COVID patients who were alone and isolated in hospitals. They soon expanded their letters to veterans, homeless people, cancer patients, and gratitude cards for essential workers. They have shared thousands of handmade cards and hundreds of "Smile Kits” with art supplies for youth in need. In addition, they have held numerous drives that successfully helped people across Arizona such as food drives, mask drives, Smile kits, book drives, thank you cards, and much more. Their motto is “We can all do something with what we have and where we are to make this world better!”. Hurshneet and Pravneet are students at Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, Arizona. They are passionate about spreading smiles across the world with their homemade cards and kindness! Check out their website at https://www.projectsmileaz.org.