By ALEX BROWN Multimedia Journalist, Inside Indiana Business FORT WAYNE — A more than $125,000 grant from The Lutheran Foundation will support faith-based, outpatient therapy services for those with mental health needs at Parkview Behavioral Health. The grant will help with personnel costs for programs in Noble and Allen counties. Parkview says its faith-based, intensive …read more.

By Alex Brown Multimedia Journalist, Inside Indiana Business  FORT WAYNE — The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has selected the Parkview Research Center in Fort Wayne for a research grant related to mental health. The research will focus on using telehealth to address mental health needs of adolescents and young adults. Parkview describes telehealth as the …read more.

By MELANIE LOWMAN, MA, LMHC Therapist, Member – Tippecanoe Valley Mental Health Task Force AKRON — The average person spends approximately one-third of their life sleeping? To put this into perspective the average person who lives to be 90 years old will have slept approximately 11,680 days or 32 years. Sleep serves many purposes. It …read more.

By TAMMY COTTON Kosciusko Cares Kosciusko Cares, a Bowen Center sponsored prevention initiative, welcomes the public to participate in an eight hour training on mental health first aid, appropriate for anyone in the public. Specialty groups are welcome, including teachers, youth workers, clergy, civic groups, healthcare workers, corporate groups, or human resource professionals. At this …read more.

Purdue University is planning a moment of silence at noon Wednesday, Jan. 21, to remember Andrew Boldt who was killed on campus one year ago. Purdue Student government is planning a campus-wide event. “The idea is for all students, all professors, all faculty members to take a moment and pause wherever they are. So, it’s …read more.

On Oct. 31, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Community Mental Health Act to federally fund community mental health centers and research facilities devoted to the treatment of mental illness. It was the last legislation President Kennedy signed into law. “The 50th anniversary of the Community Mental Health Act gives us occasion …read more.