Adult and Child Center wins National Award for Evidence Based Practices

October 29, 2008

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has selected 29 organizations to receive the agencys 2008 Science and Service Awards. These awards recognize exemplary implementation of evidence-based interventions that have been shown to prevent and/or effectively treat mental illnesses and substance abuse.

This annual award program recognizes public- and private-sector organizations, as well as community-based groups and coalitions, that have worked to improve their communities and the lives of individuals by providing the best services possible.

Adult and Child Center is a community mental health center that serves adults with a serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbance in Marion County (Indianapolis) and Johnson County in Indiana. Over the past seven years, Adult and Child has been an early adopter of several SAMHSA-identified evidenced-based practices (EBPs) including assertive community treatment (ACT), supported employment (SE), illness management and recovery (IMR), and integrated dual disorders treatment (IDDT).

Federal Funds to Support Mental/Physical Healthcare of Local Older Adults

Indianapolis, IN, Sept 23, 2008

The Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded ADULT&child a 3 year grant worth 1.2 million dollars to provide evidence based integrated mental and physical health care to the 65 and up population residing in Marion and Johnson Counties. ADULT&child, a leader in the provision of evidence based practices in Indiana, has been providing mental health services to the older adult population for years, in fact, their 60+ year old population grew 119% from 2003 to 2006. This spike in growth demonstrated vast unmet needs, which lead ADULT&child to pursue this grant opportunity to expand their capacity to deliver quality, evidence based, mental health services to the aging population.

ADULT&childs Older Adult program is the first such program to invest in the delivery of evidence based practices; or delivery models proven effective by significant amounts of research.