Porter-Starke Services is a not-for-profit health center that has multiple locations throughout Northwest Indiana, including LaPorte, Knox, Valparaiso, and Portage.  With mental health awareness on the rise, Porter-Starke is equipped to provide...

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...

Claudette Dandridge, MD Dr. Dandridge provides pediatric care to patients at Marram’s Gary location. She received her medical degree from the University of Illinois Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine. A member of the American Academy of Pediatrics,...

Tiffany Ballard, LDH Tiffany works as a dental hygienist at Marram’s Gary location. She earned her degree in dental hygiene from the Indiana University School of Dentistry in 2011. Since receiving her degree, Tiffany has worked in various offices...

J. Timothy Ames, MD Dr. Ames practices family medicine, providing primary care services to patients at Marram’s Gary location. He earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia and has practiced in Northwest Indiana since 1987. He has 25...

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 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...

Each year, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires a count of all sheltered and unsheltered homeless individuals to take place on a single day in the last week of January. This year’s count took place on...