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Commission on Improving the
Status of Children in Indiana
July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021
contents
TABLE OF
Introduction 4
Commission actions 6
Getting it right for kids 8
Looking ahead 15
Commission Members 16
Task Force & Committee Members 19
Commission on Improving the
a year
Status of Children in Indiana
July 2021
Dear fellow Hoosier,
The year encompassing July 2020 through June 2021
will be remembered as a unique period in history.
With a global pandemic raging and vaccines becoming widely available
only toward the end of that period, a great deal of state business was conducted in a virtual
environment for everyone’s safety; so, too, with the Children’s Commission. During this fis-
cal year, all Commission meetings were held online, with members participating from their
various homes and offices and the public watching a livestream. Thankfully, technology al-
lowed for the Commission to continue its vital work of studying issues and proposing policy
and practice improvements for the benefit of vulnerable youth. While this year’s report will
be missing the colorful photographs of in-person meetings in beautiful and historic build-
ings, the work described here is no less substantive or important than in previous years.
The past year has also been one in which all eyes were on reckoning with historical injus-
tices and building a more equitable society. Here too, state government did not miss the
moment to act. During the year, the Governor’s office, Family and Social Services Adminis-
tration, and Indiana Supreme Court created and filled new equity-focused leadership posi-
tions. The Children’s Commission’s Equity, Inclusion, and Cultural Competence Committee
led the way in developing tools to assist with state government’s efforts to keep striving for
a more perfect union.
Although our state policy work continued relatively uninterrupted, we know the events of
the past year had a profound impact on children and families, with those who were most
disadvantaged prior to the pandemic bearing the brunt of both the health and economic
fallout of COVID-19. Although schools and teachers performed an astonishingly fast and ef-
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 4
like no other
fective pivot to online learning when needed for safety, spring test scores showed that—as
predicted—students lost academic ground due to disruptions to the learning environment
over the past year. Youth anxiety and depression are at all-time highs because of the iso-
lation of this pandemic year, and food insecurity remains a problem throughout the state.
As Indiana emerges from the shadow of COVID-19, much work lies ahead to recover and
rebuild—minds, hearts, homes, and stomachs. The Commission will be keeping an eye out
for policy and practice innovations that can accelerate that recovery for children and fami-
lies and lead us to a place that is even better than before.
One reason to hope our ideas will continue to get better is that the voices of youth are
being brought more deliberately and consistently into the conversation. With the passage
this year of HEA 1537, the Commission on Improving the Status of Children will add two
young adults who have been in the position of the youth who are the focus of the Com-
mission. Adding the perspectives and experience of youth to those of our policy leaders is
a formula for cooking up new and better solutions for Hoosier children and families, and I
can’t wait to get started.
For the Children,
Julie L. Whitman, MSW
Executive Director
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COMMISSION
acions
Met during Approved Recommendation to require
suicide prevention training
the fiscal year Letter of support for Youth in certain postsecondary
Risk Behavior Survey programs for health,
Commission met in August,
administration education, and mental health
October, December, April,
professionals
and June Recommendations to
change clinical addiction Recommendation to require
Executive Committee met in
counselor licensing schools selected by the CDC
August, September, October,
requirements to improve to participate in the Youth
December, January, March,
the ability for mental health Risk Behavior Survey
April, May, and June
providers to also acquire an
Recommendations to
addiction treatment license;
increase awareness of
Adopted enacted in HEA 1468
emergency shelter care
Concept of adding two youth facilities and how they can be
Position statement on
members to the Commission; used
appropriate uses of
the Adverse Childhood enacted in HEA 1537
Experiences questionnaire
Equity guide for policy
analysis
Organizational equity
resource packet
Equity curriculum and
training resource guide
New strategic objective on
screening, identification,
and treatment of children
with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders (FASD)
Screen shot from Virtual Youth
Engagement Summit (YES!)
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STATE FISCAL YEAR:
JULY 1, 2020 TO JUNE 30, 2021
Recommendations to
enhance foster care
Tracked Social emotional learning
and mental health resources
capacity to care for older reported on for schools
youth through specialized
262 bills, which resulted in 60 Recent data on infant
recruitment and training
new laws impacting children mortality in Indiana
Recommendation to
provide specialized training Children’s mental health
to emergency shelter care Hosted or planned promotion and addiction
facilities on working with events with partners prevention programs and
best practices
high-need youth
Virtual Youth Engagement
Recommendation to end Summit (YES!) Findings and
the 90-day waiting period recommendations from a
to enroll in the Children’s Virtual State of the Child 2021 preliminary assessment of
Health Insurance Program Indiana’s juvenile justice
(CHIP) after dropping private system
insurance Heard Definition of serious and
presentations on violent delinquent behavior
and steps toward prevention
Endorsed Creating a vulnerable youth
recommendations
dashboard
Creation of a coordinated Strengthening Indiana
crisis response network for Child fatality review findings
Families program and Family
the state of Indiana on youth suicide
Resource Centers
The prioritization of mental Ways to engage youth at risk
Authentic youth participation
health programs, awareness, of suicide in treatment
and suicide prevention across
Efforts to support kinship
all three branches of state
caregivers and raise
government
awareness of their role
Development of Mobile
The development of a
Response and Stabilization
statewide framework
Services (MRSS) as a pilot
for preventing child
with a Medicaid managed
maltreatment
care entity
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 7
for kids
GETTING IT RIGHT
The Commission’s current
strategic plan highlights
five overarching principles,
each of which represents
one way of “getting it right
for kids.” If we incorporate
these principles into our
work, it can only improve the
results. Here we highlight
significant Commission
accomplishments of this
past fiscal year that align
with the overarching
principles.
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 8
EQUITY
Historical inequities cannot be corrected by ignoring them. For statewide
solutions to be effective, marginalized voices must be included, data must be
disaggregated (by race, geography, gender and other relevant variables) and
policies and programs must be responsive to the particular needs and strengths
of each community and group of children in Indiana.
Equity policy analysis guide ment, and resources for conducting an or-
ganizational self-assessment to determine
This guide, developed and presented by the readiness to take on equity work. With many
Equity, Inclusion, and Cultural Competence organizations and agencies committing to
Committee (EICC), contains a set of seven a renewed focus on equity, the EICC and the
questions for policymakers to ask themselves Commission took the opportunity to provide
before enacting a new policy, or when re- these tools to help that work be authentic
viewing an existing one. This guide has been and successful.
distributed broadly and serves as inspiration
Curriculum training
for local entities—for example within the
youth justice system—as they work to com-
plete racial equity impact assessments on
resource guide
local policies and practices. The guide has Many leaders recognize a need to train their
been presented to national audiences as well, staff—and themselves—on topics related to
including federal officials and state and local equity, such as implicit bias, disproportion-
children’s cabinets from around the country. ality, and inclusion. This list of training and
educational resources is a starting place
Organizational equity where individuals can begin or continue
resource packet their own learning and that of their organi-
zation. The curriculum subcommittee of the
This set of resources includes a sample job EICC developed a rubric and scored avail-
description for a Chief Equity Officer or simi- able resources, resulting in this vetted list of
lar position, a list of organizational protective training opportunities.
factors that promote an equitable environ-
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TWO GENERATIONS
Parents are children’s first teachers and role models. Efforts to support the safety,
health, wellbeing, and education of children and youth are more effective when
those efforts also support the role of parents and extended family members in the
child’s development.
Child abuse Mental health
prevention framework substance abuse workforce
Pursuant to a recommendation from the Addiction has been referred to as an epidem-
Child Health and Safety Committee that the ic in Indiana, and parental addiction is one of
Commission approved in May 2019, a group of the top factors negatively impacting children’s
statewide stakeholders has been working with safety and wellbeing. The Commission’s Men-
the Department of Child Services (DCS) and tal Health and Substance Abuse task force
a consulting group to develop a took on the challenge of seeking ways to
statewide framework for the increase the number of qualified treatment
prevention of child mal- providers in Indiana, so that parents and fami-
treatment. Such primary lies can receive the support they need to enter
prevention work priori- recovery and be fully present and capable for
tizes supporting fam- their children. The task force proposed a set of
ilies and connecting changes to the licensing requirements for clin-
them with resources ical addictions counselors, which were enact-
in their communities. ed in HEA 1468. These new requirements will
Additionally, the Com- streamline licensing for those
mission has served as who hold or are simultane-
a partner on Strength- ously pursuing another
ening Indiana Fami- mental health license,
lies, a federally funded such as the LCSW,
project led by two Indi- ultimately producing
ana University professors more qualified treat-
to develop Family Resource ment providers to
Centers in four pilot coun- help families reach
ties. Both of these projects stability and well-
prioritize supporting par- ness.
ents in order to ensure the
safety and wellbeing of
children.
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 10DO NO HARM
The state should only intervene in the life of a child or family if the intervention
can reasonably be expected to improve the status of the child and/or family.
Government intervention should not cause harm.
Emergency shelter youth (those who are sometimes turned away
from the facilities due to behavior concerns,
care recommendations
but who most need the help that could be
The Juvenile Justice and Cross-System Youth provided there).
task force decided to take a close look at how
emergency shelter care facilities were being
used, and could be used, in Indiana. They
Mobile response
found that these safety net facilities were
stabilization services
generally about half full, with room to take The Mental Health and Substance Abuse task
more youth as needed. However, there was force’s subcommittee on mobile response
not always a good match between the needs has been studying the benefits of creating a
of the youth and the services available—with system of mobile response for youth experi-
high-need youth sometimes being turned encing a mental or behavioral health crisis, as
away, and youth that could be served in fos- a safer alternative to the use of emergency de-
ter families being housed in facilities instead. partments or law enforcement. The subcom-
There could also be geographical mismatch, mittee visited other states, combed through
as local stakeholders were not necessarily Medicaid data, and found that the use of a
aware of the availability of services outside mobile behavioral health response has the
their immediate area if their facility was full. potential to reduce disruption in foster care
placements, reduce expensive emergency de-
The shelter care subcommittee proposed a
partment visits, and produce better outcomes
number of recommendations to help raise
for youth. This group proposed working with
awareness of the availability of shelter care,
the Office of Medicaid Policy and Planning to
including for daytime use; to do specialized
take an even deeper dive into the data while
training and recruitment of foster families to
engaging one of the Medicaid Managed Care
serve older youth (those most likely to enter
Entities (MCE) to develop a pilot mobile re-
facilities when they could be served by fami-
sponse program. The team also identified the
lies instead); and to provide additional training
availability of federal technical assistance that
to shelter care facilities on serving high-need
could help with this effort.
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 11CHIP waiting period
A subcommittee of the Child Health and Safety task
force started taking a close look at state actions
that could help ensure health coverage for more
children. The subcommittee discovered a rela-
tively simple change that could be made ad-
ministratively by FSSA to ensure that children
whose parents’ employer-provided coverage
becomes too expensive would not have
to wait before enrolling in the Children’s
Health Insurance Program. They recom-
mended changing the rule currently in
place that forces a 90-day period of no
coverage on those children, which can
delay necessary care.
Juvenile justice
system assessment
Decades of research have shown that involve-
ment in the juvenile justice system can have a
serious negative impact on a child’s future, often in
a way that is out of proportion to the offense the child
may have committed, and with significant racial dispari-
ties. In an effort to gain clarity on these unintended harms,
while maintaining a focus on public safety, the Children’s
Commission sought and received funding this year to work
with the Council of State Governments Justice Center (CSG)
on a preliminary assessment of Indiana’s juvenile justice prac-
tices and outcomes.
CSG presented a set of preliminary findings and recommen-
dations, and the Commission was funded by the General
Assembly to continue the work in the coming year. Phase
two will include a deep dive into the data from several parts
of the youth justice system and the development of consen-
sus-based recommendations to improve outcomes for youth
while maintaining or improving public safety and making
responsible use of state and local government resources.
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 12TRAUMA-INFORMED
An understanding of the impact of trauma and trauma-informed practice
increases the effectiveness of all work with vulnerable children and families.
ACEs position statement Social-emotional learning,
mental health promotion
addiction prevention in
The Child Trauma and Resilience Commit-
tee has worked to thread together the many
different conversations taking place across
schools
Indiana about child trauma and appropriate The Commission heard several presentations
ways to respond. Several members of the this year on evidence-based and trauma-in-
committee were trained by Dr. Robert Anda, formed practices that help students succeed
an original author of the Adverse Childhood in school and life. Through the work of the
Experiences (ACEs) study, on the proper use Indiana Department of Education, the Di-
of ACEs information to build trauma-informed vision of Mental Health and Addiction, and
communities. private funders such as the Richard M. Fair-
banks Foundation, Indiana children and youth
As knowledge of ACEs has grown, so too have
are learning skills such as self-awareness,
the number of people and programs who
self-management, social awareness, relation-
have begun to use the ACEs questions in ways
ship skills, and responsible decision-making.
not originally intended. The committee devel-
oped a position statement, which the Com- These skills, when taught regularly and with
mission adopted, on appropriate and inap- fidelity to a research- or evidence-based pro-
propriate uses of the sensitive ACEs questions gram, serve as a foundation not only for ac-
with children, youth, and adults. The commit- ademic success, but also future workforce
tee continues work on a follow-up resource readiness. These programs are helpful for all
with suggestions for alternative measures to students, but carry additional benefits in giving
use in situations where the ACEs questions teachers ways to support students who have
are not the most appropriate tool. experienced trauma, and prevent that trauma
from interfering with the student’s learning.
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 13YOUTH FAMILY VOICE
All solutions are more effective if those who are expected to benefit from them
participate in the process of developing them.
YES! fellowship summit own experiences into education and advoca-
cy, and in October 2020, the youth planned
With support from the Forum for Youth In- and led a virtual summit for more than 250
vestment, the Commission partnered this policy makers and youth-serving profession-
year with Voices Corporation and a planning als. During the summit the youth presented
team of professionals and parents to se- on the topics of educational inequity, home-
lect and train a group of youth fellows, who lessness, mental health, and child welfare. The
planned and led a virtual policy summit. The youth presented their ideas for making these
youth fellows ranged in age from 15 to 23 and systems better, and following the summit
had experience with many of the state sys- they engaged directly with legislators and
tems represented on the Children’s Commis- others to speak into the policy process from
sion. Voices provided an eight-week training their experience.
process that prepared the youth to turn their
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 14Youth Commission members
The YES! fellowship and summit inspired
Commission members to embrace the value
of having youth at the table, and after a dis-
cussion with the full Commission, HB 1537 was
filed and ultimately passed and became law.
The act creates two additional seats on the
ahead
Children’s Commission for young adults who,
as children, have been served by the systems
LOOKING
present on the Commission. At the end of the
fiscal year, finalists were being interviewed for
the positions, and appointments are expected
early in the next fiscal year.
Family YES! planning The Commission on Improving the Status
With support from Casey Family Programs, of Children in Indiana has just completed its
Commission staff is working with a commit- eighth year of collaborating to improve pol-
tee of professionals and parents to plan a icies and practices for vulnerable youth. So
family and youth engagement summit (Fam- much more remains to be done.
ily YES!), where youth as well as parents can In the coming year, the Commission will dive
share their experiences with state systems more deeply into juvenile justice reform,
and professional services, and exchange ideas continue pressing forward on ways to support
with professionals on how to improve these families to prevent child abuse and neglect,
systems and services and make them more continue to seek increased availability of ev-
family-friendly. This summit was originally idence-based mental health and substance
scheduled for 2020, but due to the pandemic abuse treatment for children and their par-
and the committee’s strong desire to hold the ents, and seek new community collaborations
event in person, it has been postponed to Fall to help keep our youngest children healthy
2021. Much of the planning and groundwork and our adolescents safe from violence.
was laid during the 2020-21 fiscal year.
We will continue to speak up for the need to
inform our responses to these problems with
an understanding of equity, trauma, and a
public health response. Working together for
and with our youth, there is nothing we can’t
take on. We are Hoosiers. Bring it on.
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 15members
COMMISSION
Christine Representative
Blessinger Dale DeVon
Deputy Commissioner, State Representative, District 5
Re-entry and Youth Services,
Indiana Department of 2020 Commission Chair
Correction Member, Executive Committee
Kristina Senator
Box, M.D. Stacey Donato
Indiana State Health State Senator, District 18
Commissioner
Member, Executive Committee
Senator Justin
Jean D. Breaux Forkner
State Senator, District 34 Chief Administrative Officer,
Indiana Supreme Court
Jay John R.
Chaudhary Hammond, IV
Director, Division of Mental Deputy Chief of Staff,
Health and Addiction, Family and Office of the Governor
Social Services Administration
2021 Commission Chair
Member, Executive Committee
Bernice Curtis T.
Corley Hill, Jr.
Executive Director, Indiana Attorney General
Indiana Public Defender Council
(Member through December 2020)
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 16Zac Todd
Jackson Rokita
Indiana State Budget Director Indiana Attorney General
(Member starting January 2021)
Katie Honorable
Jenner, Ed. D. Loretta Rush
Secretary of Education Chief Justice of Indiana
(Member starting January 2021) 2022 Commission Chair
Member, Executive Committee
Susan Terry
Lightfoot Stigdon
Chief Probation Officer, Director, Department of Child
Henry County Probation Services
Department
Member, Executive Committee
Jennifer Jennifer
McCormick, Ph.D. Sullivan, M.D.
Indiana Superintendent of Public Secretary, Family and Social
Instruction Services Administration
(Member through December 2020)
Chris Representative
Naylor Vanessa Summers
Executive Director, Indiana State Representative, District 99
Prosecuting Attorneys Council
Member, Executive Committee
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 17(L-R) Dr. Jennifer Sullivan, Dr. Kris Box, and Terry Stigdon.
Commission Members Lead State’s Pandemic Response
As Indiana’s Health Commissioner, Dr. Box Terry Stigdon, DCS director and nurse by
provided tireless and inspiring leadership for training, ensured that vulnerable children and
the state’s public health pandemic response, families continued to be served remotely or in
while continuing to attend to all of the other person as needed, while also finding time to
priorities of IDOH, including reducing infant volunteer in her nursing capacity to assist with
mortality and narrowing racial disparities in COVID testing.
infant and maternal health.
That all three leaders continued their import-
As Secretary of FSSA, Dr. Sullivan took the ant work for children and families while also
lead on ensuring a compassionate and effi- leading their teams through an extraordinary
cient response during COVID to those who year-long (and counting) public health emer-
were experiencing homelessness, domestic gency is a testament to the Hoosier spirit of
violence, mental health challenges, and food compassion, hard work, and dedication that
insecurity. all three embody.
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 18TASK FORCE & COMMITTEE
members
Child Health Mark Fairchild
Covering Kids & Families of Indiana Educational
Safety Task Force Rachel Fisher
Outcomes Task
Sarah Sailors, Co-Chair
Lutherwood Force
Indiana Department of Child Services Maureen Greer
Indiana Perinatal Quality
Christy Berger, Co-Chair
Sen. Jon Ford, Co-Chair Indiana Department of Education
Improvement Collaborative
District 38
Terri Lee Brianna Morse, Co-Chair
Ben Brown Indiana Department of Workforce
Indiana State Department of Health
FSSA/Office of Medicaid Policy & Development
Planning Sharon Pierce
The Villages
Mary Beth Buzzard
Christina Commons Indiana Department of Correction
FSSA/First Steps Angela Reid-Brown
Office of Court Services, Indiana
Shannon Chambers
Chris Daley Johnson County Probation
Supreme Court
Indiana Association of Child Resources
and Advocacy (IARCA) Sandy Runkle Michael Coleman
Indiana Department of Workforce
Prevent Child Abuse Indiana
Kristen Dauss, MD Development
Indiana Department of Correction Deanna Szyndrowski
SCAN, Inc.
Bethany Ecklor
Susan Elsworth FSSA/Division of Mental Health and
INOFAS Addiction
Melaina Gant
Indiana Department of Child Services
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 19JauNae Hanger Ann Davis Parri Black
Children's Policy and Law Initiative of Indiana Association of Child Resources Youth First, Inc.
Indiana and Advocacy (IARCA)
Sirrilla Blackmon
Susan Lightfoot Terrie Decker FSSA/Division of Mental Health and
Henry County Probation Indiana Department of Correction Addiction
Janet Martinez Hon. Kimberly Dowling Hon. Jason Cichowicz
Marion County Public Defender Delaware Circuit Court St. Joseph Probate Court
Agency
Tracy Fitz Alison Cox
Terri Miller, PhD Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council Porter County Juvenile Detention
Boone Hamilton Madison Special
Services Kory George Hon. Steve David
Wayne County Probation Indiana Supreme Court
Teresa Ochoa, PhD
Indiana University Matt Gooding Katy Elmer
Indiana Department of Child Services Evansville-Vanderburgh School
Susan Roberts, EdD Corporation
Nexus Point Consulting James (Mike) Goodwin
Sullivan County Department of Child James Garrett, Jr.
Anita Silverman, EdD Services Indiana Commission on the Social
Transitions Academy Status of Black Males
Mike Gray
Alison Slatter Madison County Probation Hon. Dana Kenworthy
Indiana Association of Home Grant Superior Court 2
Educators JauNae M. Hanger
Children's Policy and Law Initiative of Hon. Kenton Kiracofe
Gil Smith Indiana Wells Circuit Court
Department of Child Services
Jill Johnson Susan Lightfoot
Lisa Truitt Marion County Public Defender’s Henry County Probation
Indiana Department of Education Office
Chase Lyday
Gina Woodward Angela Reid-Brown Avon Community School Corporation
Indiana Department of Education Indiana Office of Court Services Police
Michael Ross Sen. Eddie Melton
Indiana Criminal Justice Institute District 3
Juvenile Justice
Cross-Systems Angela Sutton
Indiana Department of Correction
Rudy Monterrosa
Notre Dame Law School
Youth Task Force Don Travis Chris Naylor
Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana Prosecuting Attorney’s Council
Hon. Steve Galvin, Co-Chair
Monroe Circuit Court Joel Wieneke Angela Reid-Brown
Indiana Public Defender Council Indiana Office of Court Services, Court
Nancy Wever, Co-Chair Improvement Program
Indiana Juvenile Detention
Alternatives Initiative Dave Reynolds
Juvenile Justice Porter County Sheriff
Stephen Balko
Indiana Department of Education Reform Task Force Mark Russel
Indianapolis Urban League
Jeffrey Bercovitz Rep. Wendy McNamara, Co-Chair
Indiana Office of Court Services District 76 Rep. Robin Shackleford
District 98
Sirrilla Blackmon Sen. Mike Crider, Co-Chair
FSSA/Indiana Division of Mental Health District 28 Tami Silverman
and Addiction Indiana Youth Institute
Christina Ball
Coleen Connor Marion County Juvenile Probation Angela Sutton
Tippecanoe County CASA Indiana Department of Correction,
Division of Youth Services
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 20James Taylor Ty Rowlison Heidi Monroe
MSD of Warren Township Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Indiana Department of Child Services
Don Travis Jennifer Tackitt-Dorfmeyer, Hon. Charles Pratt
Indiana Department of Child Services LCSW, CYC-P Allen Superior Court
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions
Lisa Truitt Lindsay Hill Stawick
Indiana Department of Education Nancy Wever Domestic Violence Network
Indiana Office of Court Services
Nancy Wever Karlin Tichenor, PhD, LLMFT
Indiana Office of Court Services, Meribeth Adams Wolf Indiana Youth Institute
Juvenile Detention Alternatives Our Place Drug and Alcohol Education
Initiative Services, Inc. David Westenberger
Indiana Youth Services Association
William "Russ" Whelan
Child Trauma
Sellersburg Police Department
Joel Wieneke
Resilience Child Services
Indiana Public Defender Council
Committee Oversight
Committee
Mental Health Zachary Adams, PhD, HSPP, Co-
Rep. Ed Clere, Chair
Substance Abuse Chair
Indiana University School of Medicine District 72
Task Force Amber Becker, Co-Chair Leslie Dunn
FSSA/Division of Mental Health and Indiana Office of Court Services
Leslie Hulvershorn, MD, Co-Chair Addiction
FSSA/Division of Mental Health and Sen. Jon Ford
Addiction Sirrilla Blackmon District 38
FSSA/Division of Mental Health and
David Reed, Co-Chair Addiction Rep. Carolyn Jackson
Department of Child Services District 1
Erin Busk
David Berman Indiana Department of Education Hon. Dana Kenworthy
Mental Health America of Indiana Grant Superior Court
Christy Gauss
Sirrilla Blackmon, LCSW, LCAC SCP Consultants Sean McCrindle
FSSA/Division of Mental Health and Bashor Children’s Home
Addiction Kory George
Wayne County Probation Michael Moore
Cathy J. Boggs Indiana Public Defender Council
Community Health Network JauNae Hanger
Children's Policy and Law Initiative Sen. Frank Mrvan
Christopher W. Drapeau District 1
FSSA/Division of Mental Health and Jessica Herzog-Hall
Addiction Indiana Youth Services Association Jim Oliver
Prosecuting Attorneys Council
Stephanie Lyons Kristi Linson
Indiana University School of Social Indiana State Department of Health Terry Stigdon
Work Indiana Department of Child Services
Kelly McBride
Steve McCaffrey Domestic Violence Network Jeff Wittman
Mental Health America of Indiana Department of Education
Terri Miller, PhD
Jason Murrey Boone Hamilton Madison Special
Indiana Department of Education Services
Gabriela Marie Rodriguez, PhD, Laura Mobley
HSPP Traders Point Christian Church
Indiana University School of Medicine
Annual Report 2020-2021 | 21Communications Michael Commons
Indiana Office of Court Services
Carol Franklin
Phoenix Family and Community
Committee Josie Fasoldt
Services
Management Performance Hub Brenda Graves-Croom
Kathryn Dolan, Co-Chair FSSA/Division of Mental Health and
Indiana Supreme Court Alicia Kielmovitch Addiction
Indiana Youth Institute
Zachary Osowski, Co-Chair Gurinder Hohl
Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council Corajean Medina Immigrant Welcome Center
Department of Child Services
Chris Bandy Timike Jones
Indiana Public Defender Council Jeff Milkey Indiana Coalition Against Domestic
Indiana Department of Education Violence
Dave Bursten
Indiana Department of Correction Christine Reynolds Manpreet Kaur
Indiana Criminal Justice Institute Indiana Criminal Justice Institute
Ron Galaviz
Indiana State Police Lisa Thompson Esther Lewis
Office of Judicial Administration Holistic Evolution, Inc.
Ben Gavelek
Indiana Criminal Justice Institute Chris Yirenkyi George Middleton
Department of Correction The George Middleton Group
Jim Gavin
Indiana Family and Social Services Tim Nation
Administration Peace Learning Center
Equity, Inclusion,
Michele Holtkamp
Office of the Governor Cultural Chris Paulsen
Indiana Youth Group
Holly Lawson Competence Shirley Payne
Indiana Department of Education Committee Indiana State Department of Health
Bill McCleery Lun Pieper
Office of the Attorney General Jill English, Co-Chair Indiana Office of Court Services
Child Advocates
Erin Murphy Guadalupe Pimentel Solano
Indiana Department of Child Services Tashi Teuschler, Co-Chair Central Indiana Community
Indiana Office of Court Services
Foundation
Jennifer O'Malley
Indiana State Department of Health Kimberly Acoff Adam Pitt
Indiana Youth Group
Indiana Department of Education
Holly Stachler
Indiana Department of Education Kenneth Allen Calvin Roberson
Indiana Youth Services Association
Indiana Minority Health Coalition
Allison Vanatsky
Indiana General Assembly Tarrell Barry Mark Russell
Indiana Department of Education
Indianapolis Urban League
Rhonda Bayless Meghan Smith
Data Sharing Center of Wellness for Urban Women
FSSA/First Steps
Mapping Yalonda Brown Jessica Strong
Committee Indiana Youth Institute
Hamilton Center
Erin Busk Latrece Thompson
Tamara Weaver, Co-Chair Indiana Department of Education
Indiana Department of Child Services
Office of the Attorney General
Valerie Davidson Jessica Tomasino
Tyler Brown, Co-Chair Meridian Diversity Consulting
FSSA/First Steps
Management Performance Hub
Ellis Dumas III Adrian Warren
Sirrilla Blackmon Indiana Department of Child Services
Radio One
Division of Mental Health and
Addiction
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