Amber W. Childs, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been named a Hartford Business Journal Healthcare Hero.
Childs was honored with an individual award for Advancement in Healthcare – Innovation. She created a comprehensive digital health solution that gives teenagers clinically-proven, science-backed mental health support and uses data to make sure that teenagers, treatment providers, and parents are in sync about mental health.
She also co-founded and directs the Getting Racism Out of Our Work (GROW) Initiative at Yale, which includes innovative programming to create racially and culturally responsive mental health educators and leaders.
Childs is director of training for the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology.