Ann Miller is the 2003 recipient of De Paul's Freedom Award

Ann Miller graduated from the University of Illinois in 1968. Following graduation, she launched into her career of working with troubled adolescents at a secure treatment center for severely emotionally disturbed children and adolescents. After vacationing in Oregon in 1975, Miller relocated. Upon her arrival, she was hired as a Director of Residential Services at the Christie School for Girls.

In 1982, Miller was hired as a counselor in the Adolescent Care unit Program. Miller was promoted to the position of Community Services Coordinator, where she implemented the Impact Training Program, a student assistance model, in 30 school districts in Washington and Oregon. This community outreach program heightened awareness of the devastation caused by chemical dependency in the lives of adolescents and their families. She later became Manager of Care unit Treatment programs for both adolescents and adults. Miller resigned from the Care unit in order to design her own adolescent intensive outpatient program for chemically dependent adolescents and their families. She founded A Minor Miracle Adolescent Outpatient Recovery Program in 1986. It served the greater Portland community until it closed in 1998. Miller is currently employed at Canby High School as an Intervention Specialist, where she helps identify chemically affected students, refers them to help and provides sober support.

Miller has been an adjunct faculty member at Portland State University and Lewis and Clark College. She served on the Board of the Oregon Institute of Addiction Studies and has been a speaker and workshop presenter on adolescent treatment issues.

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