Molina Healthcare to honor six community leaders for their dedication to the community

SACRAMENTO, CA - (May 20, 2011) - Katie Laackmann will be honored as one of the unsung heroes who work behind the scenes to make the Sacramento a better place. The Fifth Annual Molina Healthcare of California Community Champions Awards dinner will be take place on Thursday, June 23, 2011.

In addition to Laackmann, five other everyday heroes will be honored for their extraordinary service and civic contributions. Laackmann was nominated by California Foundation for Independent Living Centers and will receive a grant to be given to an organization of their choosing and a Molina Healthcare of California Community Champions Award trophy, named in honor of Molina Healthcare’s physician founder, Dr. C. David Molina.

"Molina Healthcare is proud to honor Katie Laackmann as the Volunteer Community Champion," said Lisa Rubino, president of Molina Healthcare of California. "This event is unique in that community members selected Katie as their champion. The grant the winners receive enables them to "pay it forward” to another deserving community organization."

Katie is the youngest member of the Youth Organizing! Disabled & Proud Volunteer Corps and is committed to changing the lives of young people with disabilities. She volunteers two to three days a week where she supports activities related to California’s Youth Leadership Forum for Students with Disabilities, attends YO! events, and participates in the Disability History Week campaign. Katie isn’t volunteering because of a high school graduation requirement; she volunteers because she is passionate about disability issues and wants to educate others about getting involved in their community.

About Molina Healthcare
Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: MOH) provides quality and cost-effective Medicaid-related solutions to meet the health care needs of low-income families and individuals and to assist state agencies in their administration of the Medicaid program. Our licensed health plans in California, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin currently serve approximately 1.6 million members, and our subsidiary, Molina Medicaid Solutions, provides business processing and information technology administrative services to Medicaid agencies in Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, New Jersey, and West Virginia, and drug rebate administration services in Florida. More information about Molina Healthcare is available at www.molinahealthcare.com