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Shiawassee County Community Mental Health has many services available. These services are provided at SCCMH sites such as the Shiawassee County Community Mental Health Center or the WIN Center, in your home, and in other community locations.
 

EMERGENCY SERVICES

Emergency Services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to all adults and children of Shiawassee County. Service is always available by calling (989) 723-6791 or (800) 622-4514.

PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL SERVICES

Psychiatric hospital services for adults and children are authorized by Shiawassee County Community Mental Health Center staff. A face to face meeting is necessary to plan for your care. This meeting can occur at the Emergency Room at Memorial Heathcare Center in Owosso, MI, after regular SCCMH business hours or in our Access Center at the Shiawassee County Community Mental Health Center Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

When SCCMH is contacted with a request for a hospital pre-admission screen, appropriate arrangements will be made to make this process as convenient as possible for you.

SUPPORT SERVICES

Support Services are offered to assist individuals with severe mental illnesses and developmental disabilities in living in their community and avoiding hospital care. These services include:

·         Home Based Services: SCCMH has two home based programs - Children's Intensive Home Based Services for children with severe emotional disturbances and Infant Mental Health for families who have concerns about their infant's social and emotional development. Both programs provide services in the family's own home and community.

·         Supports Coordination: Assists individuals in finding and obtaining needed medical, social, educational, and vocational services. This service is available to people with a mental illness and/or developmental disability. Adults with a mental illness who are in need of more intensive supports to assist them in staying in their community receive services through the Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACT)

·         Community Living Training and Supports and Skill Building: Services that assist and support an individual in living in his or her own community at his or her highest level of independence. Services may be provided in the individual's home, community, through the WIN Center or the Senior Day Activity Program.

·         Integrated Employment: Assists individuals in getting and keeping jobs. Supports are provided to individuals with a mental illness or developmental disability.

·         Family Support Services: Assists families who have a family member with a severe emotional disturbance, a mental illness, or a developmental disability in maintaining family relationships and keeping the family member at home or in the community.

·         Respite Services: Respite is available for families with a family member living at home who has a serious mental illness or developmental disability. Respite services may be provided in the family's home or in the community.

·         Wraparound Services: An integrated, flexible service delivery approach available for children with severe emotional disturbances who are determined eligible for this service by the Shiawassee County Community Team.

SERVICES TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Shiawassee County Community Mental Health Services to Children and Families offers numerous programs which share the goal of helping children and their families to live satisfying and productive lives with a minimum of outside intervention. Treatment in all programs seeks to build on the strengths and competencies inherent to each family. Specific programs include: Crisis Intervention Services: Community Mental Health provides 24 hours, seven day a week on call emergency services for county residents.

·         Family Therapy: is available for children and families who may experience: Life changes, School problems, Relationship problems, and/or Family conflicts.

·         Children's Home-Based Intensive Treatment Program: focuses on children with severe emotional and behavioral problems.

·         Infant Mental Health Program: Also in-home based treatment program. Addresses the needs of infants and toddlers in an attempt to support their healthy functioning.

·         Services to developmentally disabled children: Families may be eligible for specialized programs designed to help them care for their children in-home.


Michigan Interagency Family Preservation Initiative: Which is an interagency (Probate Court, Department of Social Services, Community Mental Health, Public Schools) project that uses Wrap Around services for children who are at risk for out-of-home placement.

CLINICAL SERVICES

o        Screening, assessment, diagnosis, evaluation and treatment planning based upon your individual needs.

o        Psychiatric evaluation.

o        Medication assessment and prescription by licensed psychiatrists.

o        Psychological evaluation.

o        Individual, family, child, and group outpatient therapy.

o        Nursing Home Monitoring Services.

o        Management of Challenging Behaviors.

o        Health Assessment and related services not provided by your family doctor.

o        Physical Therapy. Usually this treatment is ordered by your family physician, but in some cases this service will be authorized as part of the services provided through SCCMHSB.

o        Speech, Language and Hearing Evaluations and Therapy. Usually this treatment is ordered by your family physician, but in some cases this service will be authorized as part of the services provided through SCCMH.

o        Other assessments as needed and included in your individual service plan.

HOUSING SERVICES

Housing help is for persons with a severe mental illness or developmental disability. Housing help includes assistance with coordinating services and supporting individuals in adult foster care, supported independent living, and living in their own homes

CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT:

The Critical Incident Stress Management Team is made up of specially trained individuals whose mission is to help those who have experienced trauma better understand what they saw, heard, and felt. CISM interventions are not therapy, but are designed to reduce the likelihood of emotional problems developing as the result of a traumatic experience.

PERSON CENTERED PLANNING

WHAT IS PERSON CENTERED PLANNING?

Person Centered Planning is a process that starts from your first phone call and continues while you are receiving services from Shiawassee County Community Mental Health. The Mental Health Code makes it a law that as a consumer of mental health services, you have a RIGHT to Person Centered Planning.

The Person Centered Planning process is for you. It can include people you want to help you make a Person Centered PLAN. This plan will be based on your hopes, desires, and outcomes you want for yourself. Your plan will become the road map to guide you and the people who will be supporting you as you create your future.

HOW TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL PCP MEETING?

Your Supports Coordinator will be meeting with you for what we call PRE-PLANNING meetings. This may be one meeting or several meetings and will be a time when you can plan for your PCP meeting.

During the Pre-Planning Meetings, your Supports Coordinator will be asking you about different areas of your life, like where you live and how you spend your day. These conversations will help you and your Supports Coordinator identify your strengths and the supports you already have. Your Supports Coordinator will also be asking you about the decisions and other things that are important to you.

The more you are able to let your Supports Coordinator know what you want, the more the PCP plan will be a start in the direction you want to go.


WHO WILL BE AT MY PCP MEETING?

You can decide who you want to invite.

WHAT IF THERE IS SOMEONE I DON'T WANT AT THE MEETING?

Then that person won't be invited. You and your Supports Coordinator can decide if that person will be involved in another way.

DOES MY SUPPORTS COORDINATOR NEED TO BE THERE?

No. You can talk with your Supports Coordinator about who you want to lead the meeting and who will take notes.

WHAT IF THERE ARE THINGS I DON'T WANT DISCUSSED AT THE MEETING?

Your Supports Coordinator will ask you about that. Let them know how you want private things handled.

CAN I RUN MY OWN MEETING?

Yes. ABSOLUTELY. Let your Supports Coordinator know if you want to be in charge of your meeting.

WHEN WILL THE MEETING TAKE PLACE?

At the time that works best for you and the people you want at your meeting. It is your choice.

WHERE WILL THE MEETING BE?

That is also your choice.

HOW OFTEN WILL THESE MEETINGS TAKE PLACE?

You, your Supports Coordinator and the other people who are supporting you will decide at each meeting when you will meet again. Meetings will be at least once a year and will be more often than that depending on what you are working on and how many changes there are in your life.

WHY DO I HAVE TO GO TO THIS MEETING?

It is really important for us to know what you want and the kind of service you need to get there. You are the expert on YOU.

WHAT IF I CHANGE MY MIND?

Then there can be another meeting to look at changing your plan.

WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT FROM THIS MEETING?

You can expect that your Supports Coordinator and other Mental Health staff treat your choices with respect. You can expect that your plan will include supports that help you stay safe and consider your health issues. You can also expect that when your goals are really big changes that may take awhile, your Supports Coordinator will help you figure out smaller steps to work on.

WHAT IF I WANT TO SEE THE PLAN?

After the PCP meeting, your Supports Coordinator will write the plan and will review it with you. After the plan is signed, you will get a copy.