"Little Wanderers" won a 1995 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism from the Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families. The Casey Medals honor distinguished coverage of disadvantaged children and their families, and the instutions and agencies charged with serving them. The judges said this report on orphanages was "an illuminating documentary at a time when the country is considering going back to orphanages as a way of caring for children. This comprehensive piece touched on many important angles of the debate. It took you on a journey and raised critical questions, but left you thinking and asking more questions. She was able to bring the experience alive from the point of the children."