Eli Lilly and Company's Reintegration Award Recognizes Boston's Center for Health and Development As One of the Nation's Top Mental Health Programs

October 10, 2002

Boston - Eli Lilly and Company has announced the winners of the 2002 Lilly Schizophrenia Reintegration Awards, recognizing a Weymouth facility.

The Family Project, part of the Atlantic House, operated by Boston's Center for Health and Development (CHD) took second place in the Housing category. The Family Project is a program that serves mentally ill homeless adults who are also custodial parents. The Project helps five families to find housing and provides housing and parenting supports.

The awards recognize health care professionals and patient advocates across the nation whose outstanding achievements have helped reintegrate persons with schizophrenia into their communities.

"At Lilly, we recognize that, while new medications are key to effectively treating schizophrenia, they must be accompanied by the proper support services," said Newt Crenshaw, vice president of U.S. sales and marketing at Lilly. "The ultimate goal is reintegration -- more precisely, providing the tools necessary to help people with schizophrenia rejoin society.

”Psychiatrists, nurses, case managers, social workers, family members, advocates, friends and the patients themselves are all key to this process."

The awards will be presented in New York on October 12, 2002. Three winners were selected in each of the four categories. The winners receive trophies and grants are made to their institutions.

An independent panel of psychiatric care professionals reviewed each entry and judged it according to the planning, execution and evaluation of the reintegration program.

Eli Lilly and Company is a global research-based pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana that is dedicated to creating and delivering innovative pharmaceutical-based health care solutions that enable people to live longer, healthier and more active lives.

Elaine Campbell, who runs the family project, and Joy Gallon, Director of Corporate and Employee Relations will be traveling to New York City to accept the award on behalf of CHD.

The Center for Health and Development, Inc. (CHD), is a Boston-based nonprofit organization established in 1987 to provide mental health services and related supports to unserved and underserved people of color who reside in the city's Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester and South End neighborhoods.

Since then, CHD has grown and expanded its base to include additional geographical areas of the Commonwealth, including the cities and towns of Fitchburg, Framingham, Leominster, Quincy, Wakefield, Weymouth, and Winchendon.

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