What services are available?

 

Prevention - Early childhood/parent training Parents as Teachers works with families who have children ages 0 to 5.  The goal is to provide family strength, provide parents with information they need to be their child’s first teacher, and increase healthy growth of the child.  

Prevention - Infant mental health helps infants under the age of three and their families.  The goal is to promote family strengths and potential for developing effective, safe, and secure interactions within the family.

 Prevention - Families Together helps families with children who are in kindergarten to third grade.  The goal is to help solve problems to improve school attendance and work.

 Individual and family therapy provides those struggling with mental health issues short-term (usually 6 to 10 sessions) individual and family therapy.  As with all services provided, the treatment is person/family-centered.  This service attempts to empower individuals/families to identify and find solutions to the mental health challenges they encounter.  These services are available for residents of all ages.

 Group Therapy provides peer support and clinical therapy.  The groups offered include anger management, substance abuse education and therapy, and the options continue to grow, based upon the needs of the community  

Child/adolescent respite care is temporary care provided for the family member who has a developmental disability and/or severe emotional disturbance.  This gift of time can occur in or out of the family’s home, allowing the family to meet other obligations and engage in stress relieving activities.

 Family subsidy assists families with children who have multiple developmental disabilities.  If the family qualifies, they receive some money each month to help better meet the needs of the child.  Funding for this comes from the Department of Community Health.

 Family support provides information, support, and ways to find resources to relieve families who have individual and/or family issues.

 Home-based family therapy provides a full range of services in the home for individual, family, and/or marital therapy in order to keep families together.  

School-based Synergy program helps to improve social behaviors of at-risk youth through a community-based treatment program, which includes the areas of school, home, and community.  The program uses counseling, teaching, and outdoor activities to meet goals.

 Wraparound is a process that wraps services around the child and family who have tried all other resources without solving issues, using formal and informal community supports.

 Support coordination for children provides support, resources, and services to children with development disabilities and severe emotional disturbances that require long-term treatment.

Crisis/grief counseling services are provided to schools, organizations, and the community in the event of a death, trauma, or other disaster.

 24-hour emergency services are provided on a 24-hour, 7-days per week basis, accessible through our regular phone numbers.  An answering service is accessible when the office is closed.  Services include crisis assessment, referral, direct intervention, inpatient screening, assessment, and service coordination with other health care organizations.

 Crisis intervention revolves around a crisis situation, which requires immediate attention.  Assessment, referral, and direct therapy can be provided either in person or by phone.  This service is available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.

 Diagnosis, assessment, and referral – all consumers will receive a diagnostic impression from a licensed mental health professional.  A thorough assessment of strengths, challenges, and limitations is done, along with referral to the best type and level of service(s).  These referred services may be internal, external, or a combination of both.

 Crisis residential is a hospital-based medical and psychiatric supervised facility.  It provides round-the-clock care for individuals who experience some form of psychiatric disorder, may be a risk to themselves or others, and are unable to meet their needs, and require supervision less than that of a secured inpatient unit.

 Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a service that provides complete community-based treatment to persons with severe and persistent mental illness.  Goals include keeping people out of the hospital and increasing their ability to maintain independence in the community.

 Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a method for teaching life-coping skills that will help those with Borderline Personality Disorder and other disorders.

 Case management/support services – the adult services unit of the agency has the capacity to provide support services to those who have severe and persistent mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and/or developmental disabilities.  These “support” services include an initial and ongoing holistic assessment identifying the consumer’s needs, helping to link with appropriate resources in the community and ongoing monitoring and assistance to those in maintaining optimal mental/physical health within the community.

 Adult foster care placement provides assistance to consumers and/or family members of consumers, as appropriate, with foster care placement within the community.  Foster care would be appropriate for those consumers who have a severe and persistent mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and/or development disability, and have demonstrated an inability to consistently maintain their daily living needs on their own and/or with existing resources.

 Jail diversion services assist, whenever appropriate, the diversion to alternative services of those consumers with severe and persistent mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or developmental disabilities who have been accused of or have committed misdemeanors and/or non-violent felonies who may otherwise be sentenced to jail terms.  In addition, serving those same consumers who may be eligible for or who are presently on parole or probation.

 Substance abuse treatment helps those who have various kinds of emotional or mental health problems, in addition to drug or alcohol abuse problems.  Services include individual and group therapy, or you may be referred to other agencies for services if they are more appropriate for your needs.  These services are available to adults.

 Nursing home consultation and training provides consultation to nursing home staff to assist in providing the best and most appropriate treatment for residents who are struggling with adjustment and/or problem behaviors.  Ongoing training is also provided to family, caregivers, and nursing home staff to assist them in dealing with those who may have mental health issues.  

Psychiatric hospitalization, screening, discharge, planning, and coordination services are arranged for consumers with severe and persistent mental illness and for children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances.

 Psychiatric evaluations include a comprehensive, face-to-face evaluation by a psychiatrist for adults with severe and persistent mental illness and children with severe emotional disturbances.  The focus of the evaluation is to determine the mental status, including the presenting problem, history of illness or previous psychiatric history, and medication history to provide a comprehensive assessment to help formulate a person-centered plan in the overall care.

 Psychological assessment uses standard objective tests and IQ tests provided by a credentialed psychologist.  These evaluations provide further assistance in the development of the person-centered plan of service and provide an important part of the development of overall psychosocial assessment.  The assessment looks at medical, family, and emotional history in helping to develop a holistic look at the individual.

 Medication assessment is provided by a psychiatrist or physician and is aimed at providing face-to-face contact and ongoing monitoring regarding the implementation and effectiveness of medication treatment.  

Assisted living supports are services arranged for consumers with severe and persistent mental illnesses and/or developmental disabilities.  Persons needing these services live in their own home or apartment and require assistance weekly or daily in order to continue to live in their home.  Services are provided through community organizations, and consumers choose the staff to meet their needs.   Services include shopping, cleaning, money management, medication assistance, community inclusion, personal care, and other needs as defined in the person centered plan.  These services are arranged through the adult unit supports coordinators.  

Alzheimer’s respite care provides respite services to the caregivers of individuals who have Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.  Both in-home respite and out-of-the-home day program are available.

 Interdisciplinary health screening for older adults geriatric screening is available to older adults to assess their level of functioning in five areas: medical, social, thinking, hearing/vision, and nutrition.  Results of the assessment help a team of professionals make a recommendation as to whether the older adult can live independently and still be safe.

 Nursing home screening provides screening of individuals being placed in nursing home facilities for possible mental health problems.  Recommendations are made for appropriate treatment and placement.

 Training for independent living and community inclusion are services arranged for consumers with severe and persistent mental illnesses and/or developmental disabilities. Persons needing these services live in their own home or apartment or are planning to live independently in the near future and require assistance in the following areas:

 Supported employment services are offered to those persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses and/or developmental disabilities.  Persons needing this service would find looking for work and keeping a job difficult due to lack of training and/or a disability. Supported employment services include vocational assessments, training crews, independent work supports and referrals to other services in the community such as Michigan Rehabilitation Services.

Community living supports are used to increase or maintain personal self-sufficiency, facilitating an individual’s achievement of his goals of community inclusion and participation, independence or productivity. The supports may be provided in the participant’s residence or in community settings.

 

 

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