Services

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. NCMH works with schools and other community organizations in this process.

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 Newaygo County residents of all ages.

Services include, but are not limited to:

Adolescent DBT- This is the same as the Dialectical Behavior Therapy above but designed for teens.

Adolescent DBT Maintenance- This group builds on and maintains the skills learned in the DBT group

Autism - evaluation for applied behavior analysis services for children 18 months through 20 years old who meet criteria for autism services.  Family must be willing to participate in ABA (applied behavior analysis) services in order to receive the evaluation.

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 and Training are family-focused services provided to family members of persons with serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance  or developmental disability  for the purpose of assisting the family in relating to and caring for a relative with one of these disabilities through training, education  and information about community resources.

Home-based Services provides a full range of intensive services to children and their families with multiple service needs who require access to an array of mental health services in order to keep families together.

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.

Parent Support Partners is designed to provide parents with tools and information that help them become the best parents they can be.

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.

Youth Peer Support - A Youth Peer Support Specialist (YPSS) is a young adult, ages 18 through age 28, with lived experience who received mental health services as a youth and now uses that experience to work with clients at Newaygo CMH.  A YPSS brings both the experience of receiving mental health services as a youth, and the ability to give youth much needed hope.  Youth ages 12 to 26 years of age who are clients of Newaygo CMH are eligible for YPS services.  The YPSS’s valuable lived experience helps youth feel heard and validated by someone who understands because they have been there, gives them hope for the future, provides a sense of connection (a feeling that they are not alone), provides support without judgment, creates safe space through connection, and provides youth with a sense of being valued.  YPS services can provide youth with assistance in resolving conflicts, improving family relationships, enhancing skills to improve their overall functioning, integrating with community, school, and family, and transitioning into adulthood.

SED children’s waiver – the child must meet state/CMH criteria which qualifies them for this level of care. The target population is those children in the foster care system who have extensive needs and requires special services by permanency resource managers. The goal is to achieve reunification or permanency with their family and for the child to have improved functioning across all life domains. Children who may be eligible for this program must also qualify for and be receiving wraparound services through NCMH. Services occur in the home where the child resides or in the community.

 
Children’s Waiver (up to age 18) A child must meet criteria for having a developmental disability and meet criteria for CMH services. Potential candidates will complete the Children’s Waiver Program Pre-screen with an assigned CMH case manager which is then forwarded to DHS for review and approval. This wavier serves to provide those children who have a developmentally disability, have extensive needs, and require special services. NCMH is responsible for coordination of all child waiver services and assists the family in locating resources to provide care for their child in the family home or community.