Honorary Service Awards (HSA)

Honorary Service Awards are designed as a unique way for PTA units, councils, and districts to publicly acknowledge individuals, businesses, and organizations for outstanding community service to children and youth in a community.

The Honorary Service Award program offers seven distinctive types of awards:

• Very Special Person Award (VSP) – This award is given to recognize an individual or organization for their service to PTA. 

• Honorary Service Award (HSA) – This award is given to recognize an individual or organization for outstanding service to children and youth in your community, going above and beyond what is asked of them. 

• Continuing Service Award (CSA) – This award is given to recognize an individual or organization for ongoing or long-time service to children and youth, providing support year after year. 

• Outstanding Teacher Award (OTA) – This award may be given to recognize a teacher for outstanding service to children and youth through PTA, school, or community. 

• Outstanding Administrator Award (OAA) – This award may be given to recognize an administrator for outstanding service to children and youth through PTA, school, or the community. 

• Elected Official Honorary Service Award (EOHSA) – This award may be given to recognize an elected official for outstanding policy work and/or legislation that positively impacts the lives of children. This award may be given at the local, state or federal level. This award is not to be used as an endorsement of any elected official, but to celebrate the work of the elected official. 

• Golden Oak Service Award (GOSA) – This award is given to recognize, as the most prestigious of the Honorary Service Awards, an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to the welfare of children and youth in a school or community. 

In addition, In Memoriam or Tribute Donations awards can be given in tribute to a person, a group or in memoriam.

Simi Valley PTA Council's past HSA recipients: