Michigan Partners in Crisis (PIC)
Priority Initiatives for 2009

•  Renewed funding in state budget appropriations for pilot mental health courts
         
•  Renewed corrections anti-segregation language in state budget and/or statute
   (adults and children)
         
•  Public and policy maker general education
         
•  Improved administration and streamlining of corrections mental health program
         
•  Renewed funding in state appropriations for Corrections Ombudsman
          
•  Develop recommended standards for mental health court operations
        
•  Renewed action in state budget and/or statute for suspension (rather than termination) of Medicaid for those incarcerated or detained
           
•  Obtain funding for and/or renew legislative requirement for study of prevalence, need and treatment levels in local jails
   
•  Legislative and/or executive acceptance of juvenile justice study on emotional disorder prevalence, needs and treatment levels
   

PIC will additionally support the work of:

*The Michigan Partners for Parity coalition, toward assuring equality of mental health insurance coverage for all privately insured state residents.  (2008 federal law leaves 2 million Michigan privately insured without equal protection.)

*The Michigan Juvenile Justice Collaboration, toward development and implementation of age-appropriate competency standards in Michigan 

*The Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative, toward assisting released inmates to succeed in the community and avoid returning to incarceration 

*The Michigan Child Welfare Improvement Task Force, toward designing and recommending a full array of services and mechanisms to assist juveniles in Michigan.

 *The Department of Corrections/University of Michigan study that is ongoing, and is expected to be completed this year, of mental illness prevalence and treatment needs in state prisons.  (Partners in Crisis has been appointed to a special state advisory body for this project.)   

Michigan Partners in Crisis is a project of the Mental Health Association in Michigan
and the Michigan Association for Children with Emotional Disorders / United Way Agencies
30233 Southfield Road, Suite 220, Southfield, Michigan 48076
Greg Boyd, Project Coordinator: Telephone: 517.488.8012
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