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ADULT & CHILD HEALTH RECEIVES $321,000 GRANT FROM LILLY ENDOWMENT TO SUPPORT YOUTH SERVICES UNDER COVID-19

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INDIANAPOLIS (Nov. 18, 2020) – Adult & Child Health (A&C), an Indianapolis-based nonprofit that supports the mental, physical, and social health of Central Indiana youth, has received a $321,000 grant through the Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Youth Program Resilience Fund.

A&C Health’s specialized staff work 1-on-1 to improve the behavioral health and well-being of nearly 7,000 at-risk youth and families every year and provide face-to-face services in youths’ homes, classrooms, and community settings. Since the onset of COVID-19 in March, A&C staff have rapidly adjusted their programming for youth by implementing socially distanced and telehealth methods of service delivery. That flexibility, while allowing the agency to safely support the behavioral needs of youth throughout the pandemic, has come at significant financial cost. A&C will use the Lilly Endowment grant funding to offset pandemic-related expenses, assuring that youth services continue and are delivered in ways that are medically safe for youth and staff.

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“We’re very grateful to the Lilly Endowment for helping us support and protect our staff so that they may, in turn, support community youth during the pandemic,” said Allen Brown, CEO of Adult & Child Health. “We’re seeing a dramatic increase in the demand for services. The grant fills a critical financial need as we adapt to serve high-needs youth in a COVID-19 environment.”

Funding from the Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Youth Program Resilience Fund will allow A&C Health the flexibility to provide a safe and healthy balance between supporting youth with ongoing face-to-face and telehealth-based care while also meeting the personal health and safety needs of staff. Assistance from the grant will be used to support youth program staffing, purchase resources for telehealth service delivery, and provide Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for youth-serving staff providing in-person services.

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Adult & Child Health strives for caring communities, where every child, adult and family have the opportunities they need to live healthy, happy, productive lives. For more information about Adult & Child Health services, please contact Adam Wire, marketing and communications specialist, at 317-882-5122.

Lilly Endowment Inc. is an Indianapolis-based, private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by J.K. Lilly and his sons, Eli and J.K. Jr., through gifts of stock in their pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and Company. The Endowment supports the causes of community development, education, and religion, and it maintains a special commitment to Indianapolis and Indiana.

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Sarah Miller, PMHNP-BC

Sarah Miller works with the addictions team, general psychiatry for adolescents and adults, and the competency restoration team. She is board-certified as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Her specialties are working in addictions and with people who experience serious mental illness.

Miller graduated from Indiana University with a psychology degree and went back to school for nursing. She received her nursing degree from Indiana Wesleyan University and worked in a nursing home and also spent time working in a group home with adolescents. She received her master’s degree from Vanderbilt University.

She enjoys hanging out with her family and her two dogs, and going to sporting events.

Joanna Chambers, MD

Dr. Joanna Chambers is a psychiatrist who began seeing Adult & Child Health patients in November 2021. She graduated from Medical College of Georgia with her Doctorate of Medicine in 1996 and completed her residency in psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. In addition to bringing a wealth of experience, she currently serves as an associate professor at Indiana University School of Medicine where she teaches Clinical Psychiatry. She is certified in Addiction Medicine and has a special interest in treating pregnant and postpartum women. She is President of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry Organization as well as a sitting member of many medical association boards. Recently, she has won the Residents’ Award for Teaching Excellence in 2020 from Indiana University and has received “Best Doctors Award” in 2010, 2011, and 2014. Dr. Chambers is incredibly active in the medical, academic, and research realms of medicine. She is currently accepting new patients on Wednesdays.