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Mental Health Commission Purpose Explained
Public Comment Sought by Elizabeth Bauer, Member,
Michigan Mental Health Advisory Commission, Member, Michigan
State Board of Education
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Governor Granholm's Mental Health Commission is advisory in
nature and its charge is to:
1. Identify and prioritize issues and significant challenges
that must be addressed to preserve and improve services for
adults and children with serious mental illness or emotional
disturbances.
2. Recommend options to improve the organization, delivery,
quality, and effectiveness of publicly-supported mental health
services
3. Identify methods to enhance current state and county
partnerships for planning, management, and delivery of mental
health care.
4. Assess opportunities for collaborative interagency and
intergovernmental approaches to the provision of mental health
care.
5. Identify methods designed to simplify access to care, promote
effective service and support practices, improve care outcomes,
and enhance consumer and family satisfaction.
6. Recommend approaches to improve federal, state, county, and
community collaboration while increasing the efficiency and
fiscal accountability of the publicly-supported mental health
system.
7. Identify strategies and financing options for expanding
prevention and early intervention efforts within the
publicly--supported mental health system.
8. Provide recommendations on the best strategies to enhance
public awareness and understanding of mental illness.
9. Identify strategies that will increase collaboration and
communication between law enforcement, courts, corrections,
community mental health programs, and public and private
hospitals in most effectively meeting the needs of adults and
children with serious mental illness or emotional disturbances.
10. Formulate policy and program recommendations to improve and
promote community-based services and integration for adults and
children with serious mental illness or emotional disturbances.
11. Develop a Michigan-specific plan to determine the most
appropriate strategy for achieving mental health parity in this
state.
The Mental Health Committee welcomes comment from the public.
Comment may be made at commission meetings. Public comment
opportunities are offered at the beginning and end of the
meeting. The next Commission meeting will be held on March 29th
at the Holiday Inn South in Lansing, on Cedar Street, just south
of Exit 104 on I-96.
There are also four public forums scheduled throughout the state
in April:
The forum dates are:
a.. April 7 - Great Hall, Conference Centers, Western Michigan
University, 200 Ionia Ave. SW, Grand Rapids, 2:30 p.m.
a.. April 14 - Room 44, 2nd floor, Oakland Hall, Cobo
Conference/Exhibition Center, 1 Washington Blvd., Detroit, 2:30
p.m.
a.. April 20 - ballroom of the Prahl Conference Center, Mott
Community College, 1402 E. Court St., Flint, 2:30 p.m.
a.. April 29 - Great Lakes Room, Northern Michigan University,
1401 Presque Isle Ave., Marquette, 3 p.m.
You can also go to the commission website
www.michigan.gov/mentalhealth which contains all information
about meetings, reference materials, and more. If you click on
Public Commentaries, there is a place where you can type in your
comment right on the site.
If people have references that the Commission should see in
addition to those listed on the site, please send them to Public
Sector Consultants, Attn: Suzanne Miel-Uken. Her address is on
the web site.
Commissioners noted at their first meeting that the Department
of Community Health also has responsibility for Substance Abuse
and Developmental Disability services and that we cannot do this
work in a vacuum. Therefore, I advise people to comment even if
their concerns lie outside the 11 point charge.
We are looking forward to hearing from all of you.
Elizabeth W. Bauer
1355 Lake Park Drive
Birmingham, MI 48009-1089
248-540-4656
ebauer7400@aol.com
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