Porter-Starke Services

Porter-Starke Services, a not-for-profit community mental health center serving Northwest Indiana, was recently awarded multiple grants to expand access to behavioral healthcare services particularly to serve people with serious mental illness or...

Belinda Lafferty, FNP-C, PMHNP Belinda is a board certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner serving patients at Marram’s Gary and Hebron locations. She graduated from Purdue University Northwest with her Masters of Science in Nursing – Family...

Porter-Starke Services has opened a full-service, on-site pharmacy at their Knox location. The pharmacy, operated by Genoa Healthcare, will allow clients and patients greater ease-of-access to their prescription medicine needs without having to...

Porter-Starke Services Foundation will host the 2022 Living Health, Balance & Hope Symposium virtually this year with speaker Janina Fisher, Ph.D. Her presentation, “The Living Legacy of Trauma: Understanding Borderline Personality as a...

Porter-Starke Services has launched a program called Insight designed to identify and treat individuals who have experienced a first episode of psychosis. Insight serves individuals between the ages of 14 and 30 who have had a first episode of...

Porter-Starke Services Foundation will host the 2022 Living Health, Balance & Hope Symposium virtually this year with speaker Janina Fisher, Ph.D. Her presentation, “The Living Legacy of Trauma: Understanding Borderline Personality as a...

Today Governor Holcomb signed legislation into law HEA 1222 that would continue a critical grant program that has expanded access to urgently needed mental health and substance use disorder treatment services across the state of Indiana. The program...

Porter-Starke Services’ newest program will aid clients of Meals on Wheels of Northwest Indiana as well as VNA Meals on Wheels by providing them with check-ins and social contact. Facilitating this initiative are 18 Valparaiso University nursing...

As a retired teacher and educator, Diana Iltzsche understands the power of education – even for community members over 50. She leads WISE classes as the Prevention Education Coordinator for Older Adults through Porter Starke Services. “Wellness...

In February, Governor Eric Holcomb announced that the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration’s Division of Mental Health and Addiction would be partnering with Overdose Lifeline, Inc. in order to expand access to naloxone. Naloxone, also...