Aspire Indiana Names Youth and Family Services Director

Aspire Indiana/Aspire Indiana Health has named Vanessa Pataky as director of youth & family home & community based services. In her new position, Pataky will focus on developing the organization’s home and community-based services for youth and family.

Pataky worked with Aspire for the past year as a comprehensive outpatient clinical manager. As director of family and youth serives, she will focus on increasing Aspire capacities and practices for its growing youth programs, collaborating with other youth/family agencies and serving as primary liaison with the Indiana Department of Child Services.

Pataky is also an adjunct professor at Butler University’s Licensed Mental Health Counselor graduate program and at the IUPUI School of Social Work. She also previously served in social work and leadership positions with area hospital and behavioral health providers.