“Our community mental health system really believes that the families are the best tools to help recovery and help ensure that people function at their highest level.” Robert Sheehan, executive director, Community Mental Health Association of Michigan.
MI Mental Health spoke with Genesee Health System Director of Strategic Initiatives Angela Tyler on the importance of providing resources and services to BIPOC youth in Flint and throughout Genesee County.
Summit Pointe, Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan, and other community mental health agencies provide youth access to services that help them overcome suicidal thoughts and self-harming actions.
As awareness about how policing and mental health intersect grows across the state, more Michigan counties are involving community mental health agencies in law enforcement response and helping people with mental illness receive treatment rather than incarceration
Michigan's 34 CCBHCs provide whole-person care by integrating physical health with a comprehensive range of mental health and substance use disorder services to vulnerable individuals no matter what a patient's income or insurance coverage.
For those who simply need someone to talk to in times of crisis, the Northern Lakes Community Mental Health Authority offers a 24/7 toll-free line which is available at no charge, and services reach across six-county areas.
OnPoint’s Community Mental Health Mobile Crisis Intervention Program is available 24/7/365 with a supervisor and two clinicians on-call at all times.
Foster parents Tom and Tina Eastman welcomed Charley into their home when she was 9 years old and adopted her seven years later. Today, she has friends, a stable home life, and is doing well at school, but the journey wasn’t always easy.
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