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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation Awards Behavioral Health Support to Youth First, Inc.

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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation Awards Behavioral Health Support to Youth First, Inc.  Gift Equips School Social Workers with HIPAA-Compliant Telehealth Tools

Evansville, IN – On June 18, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation presented $78,574 to Youth First, Inc. The grant provided HIPAA-compliant Zoom licenses and certification training in telehealth for Youth First’s mental health professionals.

Youth First partners with 92 schools across 11 Indiana counties. Youth First Social Workers follow behavioral health best practices to proactively meet with individual students, facilitate small groups, and present to classrooms and large groups as well as consult with parents, teachers, and other community agencies. They are easily accessed by any enrolled student, and services are always free of charge. When school buildings closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis, this low-barrier access to crucial mental health support was threatened.

Thanks to the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation grant, Youth First has now equipped its clinical team with HIPAA-compliant telehealth tools and training to continue their critical work. Through this funding, their proven model of building life skills for mental health resilience and brokering community resources to meet basic needs can continue, if and when school buildings are closed, or students or staff are quarantined or ill. These telehealth tools allowed Youth First’s services and programs to be delivered uninterrupted this past school year, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. These virtual platforms will continue to be used in situations where services can’t be delivered in person.

“The Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation is proud to work with community partners like Youth First to overcome barriers to accessing mental and behavioral health services for our local youth,” said Dr. Kimberly Roop, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s Medicaid Plan President in Indiana. “We continue to support telehealth as an important part of a whole-health approach to care, connecting people with mental health services in the way that is most convenient for them.”

“Though COVID-19 severely disrupted our lives, it also sparked improvements in the way Youth First serves schools, students, and families,” said Parri O. Black, President & CEO of Youth First. “This investment from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation ensures Youth First can provide high-quality remote support for thousands of young people whenever it is needed.” 

 In Indiana, data from the State of the Nation’s Mental Health report shows significantly fewer mental health diagnoses last year, particularly among children and adolescents, compared to 2019.

  • 10 percent overall drop for young children
  • 5 percent overall drop for adolescents
  • 13 percent drop for young children diagnosed with ADHD
  • 9 percent drop for adolescents diagnosed with ADHD

These findings are part of a report based on Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield claims from 1.8 million Hoosiers. 

About Youth First, Inc.:
Youth First’s mission is to strengthen youth and families through evidence-based programs that prevent substance abuse, promote healthy behaviors, and maximize student success. Youth First partners with 92 schools across 11 Indiana counties to provide 64 Master’s level social workers who assess needs, develop and implement prevention plans, and connect students and their families to vital resources. Youth First also offers community programs involving parents and caregivers to strengthen families. For more information about Youth First, please visit youthfirstinc.org or call 812-421-8336.                                    

About Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation 

Through charitable grant making, the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation LLC, an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, promotes Anthem’s inherent commitment to improving lives and communities. Through strategic partnerships and programs, the Foundation addresses the social drivers that will help create a healthier generation of Americans in the communities that the company serves. The Foundation focuses its funding on critical initiatives that make up its Healthy Generations Program, a multi-generational initiative that targets: maternal health, diabetes prevention, cancer prevention, heart health and healthy, active lifestyles, behavioral health efforts, and programs that benefit people with disabilities. The Foundation also coordinates the company’s year-round Dollars for Dollars program which provides a 100 percent match of associates’ donations, as well as its Volunteer Time Off and Dollars for Doers community service programs. ®ANTHEM is a registered trademark of Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc. The Blue Cross and Blue Shield names and symbols are registered marks of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. To learn more about the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation, please visit http://www.anthem.foundation and its blog at https://medium.com/anthemfoundation. 

 

Ivy Tech Community College Providing New Tuition Model and Free Textbooks for Students in 2021-2022 Academic Year

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Ivy Tech Community College Providing New Tuition Model and Free Textbooks for Students in 2021-2022 Academic Year

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Ivy Tech State Board of Trustees recently approved a new tuition model for the Community College. The new approach, Ivy+, is focused on making college more affordable, ensuring students have equitable access, transparency of cost, on-time completion, and a seamless experience.

Ivy Tech becomes one of the first schools in Indiana and the first community colleges in the country to adopt this new tuition model. Ivy+ transforms the tuition structure by including the cost of textbooks as a regularly assessed fee. Ivy+ will also charge the same tuition rate for full-time students enrolled in 12 or more credits. If a student takes 12 credits, 15, or even 24 credits in a given term, the cost of tuition will be the same for the student. Part-time students will see their tuition frozen for the next two years and will continue to pay per credit hour.

As part of the Ivy+ rollout, Ivy Tech will cover the cost of textbooks for students in the 2021-2022 academic year through the federal government’s Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF).

“Research shows that 65 percent of college students forgo buying a textbook with the biggest reason that they cannot afford them. Often financial aid and scholarships do not cover course materials. Our goal is to ensure every student has their textbooks the first day of class,” said Sue Ellspermann, Ivy Tech President. “Ivy+ makes us the only state institution that is not only freezing the cost of tuition, but significantly reducing the cost of attendance at a time when we need many more Hoosiers to earn a quality college credential to launch a high-wage career.”

For more information, visit IvyTech.edu/Tuition

 

 

VLADIMIR LENIN MEET COVID-19

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VLADIMIR LENIN MEET COVID-19

GAVEL GAMUT By Jim Redwine

Margaret Thatcher said the problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people’s money. Thatcher noted this truism long before ’Ole 19 brought about payments of trillions of dollars to people to not go to work. These trillions were not created as a gift from the gods but are borrowed from future generations. Such largesse with the earnings of contemporary small business owners and yet-to-be-born taxpayers may cause warm fuzzy feelings but the concept of something for nothing is a zero-sum game. It can lead to an attitude of entitlement. Unlike teaching folks to fish, entitlement can instill a belief that fish will hook themselves and that if someone else has caught a fish they must share it. A moral society has an obligation to care for those who cannot care for themselves. But it is immoral to foster an attitude that the able-bodied have no obligation to contribute. Even worse is the idea that those who do have means must not deserve them so it is okay to take their property without paying for it.

According to the office of the Attorney General for the State of California, a large number of folks who frequent retail establishments such as CVS, Walgreens, and Target in the San Francisco area simply take items off the shelves and leave without paying. This attitude of “what’s mine is mine and so is the” may be infecting the American psyche beyond the land of free love and tent cities on the public streets. Evidence of this creeping social virus can also be found on our public roads and byways.

Some people apparently assume all the world is their trash can and dump their refuse on the rest of us. How difficult could it be to carry a trash bag in a vehicle and occasionally put the filled-up bag in one of the large containers that populate every public park or roadside rest stop? Once again it is the entitlement thing. The thought process may go something like this:

“I am going to shoplift some items or buy some beer or fast food and then dump the refuse on my fellow citizens. It is okay because I should not be expected to be responsible for my own mess. After all, I either didn’t pay for it to begin with or bought it with COVID-19 money I didn’t earn and may not need.”

Perhaps there is no direct connection to socialism, COVID-19, and people who are too lazy to properly dispose of their own trash, but my guess is it’s an apt tautology. Anyway, in a few more years of dolling out other peoples’ money, our federal, state, and local governments will run out of ink, and maybe our society will then care for those who cannot care for themselves but will respect others who can work enough to require them to do so. Also, that newly engendered sense of self-worth might encourage them to pick up their own trash.

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Lazor, King to Represent Team USA in Tokyo

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Lazor, King to Represent Team USA in Tokyo

OMAHA, Neb. – Indiana Swim Club pro swimmer Annie Lazor and 100m Breaststroke world-record holder Lilly King secured spots in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 by finishing first and second, respectively, in the women’s 200m Breaststroke final at the 2020 Olympic Trials at the CHI Health Center on Friday night.

The Wave II eight-day Trials competition serves as the sole qualifier for pool swimmers on the U.S. Olympic Team for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The top 16 times out of the preliminary heats will form the semifinals for all events at 200m or less, with the top eight semifinalists advancing to the finals. In events 400m or longer, the top eight swimmers out of the preliminary heats will head straight to the finals.

Athletes will earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team roster at each of the eight finals sessions.

200m BREASTSTROKE

Annie Lazor stuck to her race plan and closed the final 100 meters at 1:12.17, the fastest in the eight-lane final field, to win the women’s 200m Breaststroke and secure a spot on Team USA for the Olympics. She touched first at 2:21.07.

Her training partner and Olympic gold medalist Lilly King took the race out quickly and held on to the second spot and will compete in the 200m Breaststroke in Tokyo. She finished second with a time of 2:21.75.

FINAL RESULTS

WOMEN’S 200m BREASTSTROKE

  1. Annie Lazor – 2:21.07 #
  2. Lilly King – 2:21.75 #

Advanced to Olympics #

The final preliminary session is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. ET on Saturday morning with Hoosier representation in both the men’s and women’s 50m Freestyle and the men’s 1500m Freestyle.

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Prelims Wrap Up on Day Six at Olympic Trials

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Four current and future Hoosiers took to the pool on the penultimate morning of preliminary heats on day six of the 2020 Olympic Trials at the CHI Health Center on Friday.

The Wave II eight-day Trials competition serves as the sole qualifier for pool swimmers on the U.S. Olympic Team for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The top 16 times out of the preliminary heats will form the semifinals for all events at 200m or less, with the top eight semifinalists advancing to the finals. In events 400m or longer, the top eight swimmers out of the preliminary heats will head straight to the finals.

Athletes will earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team roster at each of the eight finals sessions.

800m FREESTYLE

In-bound freshman Mariah Denigan finished 15th in the 800m Freestyle preliminary heats with a time of 8:42.79 to close out her first Olympic Trial experience.

100m BUTTERFLY

Hoosier All-American Brendan Burns took 31st in the 100m Butterfly prelims with a time of 53.39. Olympic Trial finalist Corey Gambardella placed 35th at 53.58 and rising senior Van Mathias finished 48th at 54.18.

FINAL RESULTS

WOMEN’S 800m FREESTYLE

  1. Mariah Denigan – 8:42.79

MEN’S 100m BUTTERFLY

  1. Brendan Burns – 53.39
  2. Corey Gambardella – 53.58
  3. Van Mathias – 54.18

The evening session will begin at approximately 9 p.m. tonight with Hoosier representation in the finals in the women’s 200m Breaststroke.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT UPDATES STATEWIDE COVID-19 CASE COUNTS

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EPD DAILY ACTIVITY REPORT

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EPD REPORT

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Fatality Accident Investigation at St. Joseph/Franklin

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On June 17, 2021, around 9:25 p.m., officers with the Evansville Police Department and other first responders were dispatched to an accident with injury at the intersection of St. Joseph Ave. and Franklin St.involving a motorcycle and an SUV. The driver of the motorcycle was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, where he later succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.

Detectives were called to the scene. Detectives spoke with witnesses and learned that the motorcycle driver

was westbound on Franklin St., approaching the intersection at St. Joseph Ave. According to witnesses, the light turned red for eastbound and westbound Franklin, but the motorcycle proceeded through the intersection on a red light. The motorcycle collided with an SUV, which was already in the intersection and turning north onto St. Joseph from eastbound Franklin St.

There were no other reported injuries and the driver of the SUV was cooperative with first responders. There were no other occupants in the SUV. The driver of the SUV was taken to the hospital where his blood could be drawn and sent to the Indiana State Department of Toxicology with his consent. At this time, no charges have been filed and the investigation is still ongoing.

*The Victim’s name and cause of death will be released by the Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office at a later time.

Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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Vanderburgh County Recent Booking Records

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