Tom is the recipient of many awards and honors for his service including the 2007 Path to Recovery Award from A New PATH, the 2009 National Advocate of the Year award from RICARE's, the 2011 Community Awareness Award from the Foundation for Recovery, the 2012 James H. Ottmar Award from the RI Council on Alcoholism & Other Drug Dependence and the 2013 Vernon Johnson Award from Faces & Voices of Rec