Opioid ECHO

She is currently earning her certification in therapeutic humor through the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH). Over the last 20 years working in mental health, substance abuse and prevention fields, she has worked with children, adolescents, adults, families and professionals serving in a variety of roles including: community prevention coordinator, therapist, substance use educator and trainer.

Ms. DeSalle has worked with healthcare, behavioral healthcare and community based organizations to implement substance use prevention interventions for the last decade. Since 2008, Ms. DeSalle has been faculty in the Department of Applied Health Science in the School of Public Health at Indiana University, Bloomington. Within the university, Ms. DeSalle serves Prevention Insights (a center at IUB) as the Director for SBIRT Implementation and Lead Motivational Interviewing (MI) Trainer.

She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and listed on the National Addiction Technology Transfer Center SBIRT Trainers’ Registry. Ms. DeSalle provides training and technical support with MI, SBIRT and a variety of other substance use and mental health related areas to multidisciplinary audiences both nationally and internationally. In addition to her work, she volunteers on the Board of Directors for AATH and the Cottey College Alumnae Executive Board.

She is co-medical director the Indiana CHAMP (Consultations for Healthcare providers in Addiction, Mental Health, and Perinatal Psychiatry) Program, which a statewide program providing consultations to frontline providers on treatment of psychiatric illness. She is medical director of the Addictions Treatment Recovery Center (ATRC) at IU Health in Bloomington, and a member of the Indiana Maternal Mortality Review Committee (MMRC). She completed medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and residency in psychiatry at the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Training Program in Boston, Massachusetts. Her fellowship in addictions psychiatry is from Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

She teaches psychiatric and neurologic pharmacotherapy at Purdue and didactics in psychopharmacology in the IU Psychiatry Residency Program. Carol is a clinical pharmacy specialist in outpatient psychiatry and gender health at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis, working under collaborative practice agreements in the Gender Health program to provide medication management and monitoring services.

At Purdue, Dr. Ott is the faculty lead for mental health and gender health in the Center for Health Equity and Innovation (CHEqI). She serves as the faculty advisor for AAPP Purdue student chapter and QueerRx in the College of Pharmacy. Dr. Ott is a member of the Indiana Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board, Psychotropic Medication Advisory Committee, and Mental Health Quality Advisory Committee and serves as an expert panelist for the Project ECHO for Opioid Use Disorders through the IU School of Medicine and the LGBTQ+ ECHO through IU Fairbanks School of Public Health. She is a past secretary of the board of directors for the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists (AAPP) and past member of the AAPP Foundation Board.

Dr. Ott is an editor for the AAPP Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy Review Course for Board Certification in Psychiatric Pharmacy (BCPP). In the Lafayette, Indiana community, Dr. Ott is the president of the board of directors for NAMI West Central Indiana and serves on the executive board of the Gateway to Hope Syringe Service Program for the Tippecanoe County Health Department.

She worked as an attorney at the Department of Child Services (“DCS”) handling primarily Child in Need of Services and Termination of Parental Rights cases from 2002-2009. In January of 2009 Carey was named Chief Counsel of the Marion County Office of DCS. During that time, Carey also represented DCS in administrative hearings for licensure or other various issues, appeals, and contested adoptions.

In February 2011 she began working at Child Advocates as an attorney representing Guardians Ad Litem and the agency as a whole. Child Advocates is a non for profit agency providing GAL/CASA services to all of the children in the child welfare system in Marion County, Indiana. While at both DCS and Child Advocates Carey has been responsible for training DCS case managers or volunteer GAL/CASAs respectively on the legal aspects of their jobs. She has presented at State and National Conferences. Carey is the cofounder of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the IU McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis and currently serves as adjunct professor for the clinic.

Carey is also the mother of four daughters. She has been on the board of AFCC Indiana for two years. Carey recommends anyone with an interest in collaborative law become a member of AFCC. The trainings conducted nationally and locally, and the contacts made through AFCC are invaluable.

In January of 2009 Carey was named Chief Counsel of the Marion County Office of DCS. During that time, Carey also represented DCS in administrative hearings for licensure or other various issues, appeals, and contested adoptions.

In February 2011 she began working at Child Advocates as an attorney representing Guardians Ad Litem and the agency as a whole. Child Advocates is a non for profit agency providing GAL/CASA services to all of the children in the child welfare system in Marion County, Indiana. While at both DCS and Child Advocates Carey has been responsible for training DCS case managers or volunteer GAL/CASAs respectively on the legal aspects of their jobs. She has presented at State and National Conferences. Carey is the cofounder of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the IU McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis and currently serves as adjunct professor for the clinic.

Carey is also the mother of four daughters. She has been on the board of AFCC Indiana for two years. Carey recommends anyone with an interest in collaborative law become a member of AFCC. The trainings conducted nationally and locally, and the contacts made through AFCC are invaluable.

He currently serves as the CDC’s Learn the Signs. Act Early. Ambassador to Indiana. He is founding chair of Infancy Onward (Indiana’s association for infant mental health), founding president of Family Voices Indiana and now Secretary of Indiana Family to Family, Treasurer of Mental Health America of Indiana, and serves a Governor appointment to the Indiana Behavioral Health Professions Licensing Board. He is co-author of Tackling the Tough Stuff: A Home Visitor’s Guide to Supporting Families at Risk.

Before joining CHOICE, Sarah worked with IU Health as a Lead Peer Recovery Coach, helping pilot and implement virtual recovery coaching in the IU Health emergency departments across the state of Indiana. Sarah is a student at the IU School of Social Work where she plans to earn her Master of Social Work and continue with a career focused on mental health and substance use treatment while maintaining her credentials as a Certified Addiction Peer Recovery Coach. As a person in long-term recovery, she is passionate and dedicated in supporting efforts to change the face of addiction.

Ashley has been in the Child Welfare for 12 years, working in various roles in the field prior to joining the DCS Prevention Services team as the Healthy Families Indiana Prevention Coordinator in June 2022 and then being promoted into her current role in July 2023. Ashley has an MSW from Indiana University School of Social Work, with a focus in Leadership.

He represents clients in the fields of long-term care, pharmacy, medicine, white collar state and federal criminal investigations, trucking/transportation, and engineering. Ed represents and defends manufacturers of various products in federal and state courts through the nation. He also represents professionals and businesses before governmental regulatory and licensing boards.