Services
Shiawassee County
Community Mental Health has many services available. These services are
provided at SCCMH sites such as the
EMERGENCY
SERVICES
Emergency Services are available 24 hours a day,
seven days a week to all adults and children of
PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL SERVICES
Psychiatric hospital services for adults and
children are authorized by
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 WIN Center
·
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
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
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.