Managed Health Services (MHS) announced the recipients of a $1.2 million investment targeting youth mental health services across Indiana on Aug. 7. The funding comes from MHS Serves, a $12 million initiative focused on reducing health disparities.
Eighteen organizations spanning 28 counties and four statewide groups will receive partnership grants. This funding supports the Youth Mental Health Empowerment Program, which aims to expand or enhance programs that improve youth access to healthcare, mental health services and trauma-informed care.
The grants fund effective program practices and professional development. MHS Serves manages the program collaboratively. Partners include the Indiana Minority Health Coalition and Black Onyx Management. The goal is empowering communities through health-focused partnerships.
The funded organizations operate in these Indiana counties: Allen, Boone, Clark, Delaware, Elkhart, Floyd, Grant, Hamilton, Hancock, Harrison, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Jasper, Johnson, Lake, LaPorte, Madison, Marion, Montgomery, Newton, Putnam, Porter, Scott, Starke, St. Joseph, Vigo and Washington.
The recipient organizations are:
- Cultivating Life
- Cummins Behavioral Health Systems, Inc.
- VOICES Corporation
- Family Ark
- Firefly Children & Family Alliance
- Foster Success
- Girl Talk Incorporated
- Heart City Health Center, Inc.
- Indiana Family to Family
- Indiana Wesleyan University
- Marion County Commission on Youth
- Martin Luther King Multi-Service Center Indianapolis Incorporated
- New Hope Family Life Center
- Playworks Indiana
- Struggle Made Us
- The Bloom Project, Inc
- The Villages of Indiana, Inc.
- Tindley Accelerated Schools
- Uthiverse Incorporated
More details are available at mhsserves.org.
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