Newsroom
The work of the Community Mental Health Association of Michigan (CMHA) and its members are, from time to time, featured in radio, television, news print and other related forms from across the state. This section of the CMHA web page features those new stories.
News stories generated by the partnership with Issue Media Group
This partnership, with the Issue Media Group (IMG), is built around the concept of “solutions journalism” – providing news about innovative and concrete ways that communities, across Michigan, are addressing the needs of their residents along a number of dimensions – healthcare, economic development, education, the arts, to name a few. Solutions journalism investigates and explains, in a critical and clear-eyed way, how people try to solve widely shared problems. While news sources and many of us typically define news as “what’s gone wrong,” solutions journalism runs counter to that definition by covering the innovative responses to identified needs and problems.
This partnership ensures that the work of Michigan’s public mental health system is highlighted in IMG’s large suite of solutions journalism-focused publications.
You can subscribe, at no cost, to these publications, on the websites of each of these publications. The list of partner publications and their websites are provided below:
- Second Wave – Michigan
- Capital Gains – Lansing
- Catalyst Midland
- Concentrate – Ann Arbor/Ypsi
- Epicenter – Mount Pleasant
- Flintside
- Metromode – Metro Detroit
- Model D
- Route Bay City
- Rural Innovation Exchange
- Second Wave -Southwest Michigan
- The Keel – Port Huron
- The Lakeshore
- Upword – UP
Articles below:
- Opioid settlement dollars will strengthen community mental health response to opioid use disorders
- Community mental health agencies using EMDR to help Michiganders overcome trauma
- Michigan’s community mental health providers serve the unhoused
- Psychiatric residents and fellows fill gaps in rural Michigan mental health care
- OnPoint’s new community mental health facility increases access to care
- Community Mental Health Association of Michigan study shows integrated care is growing
- Leaders overcoming stigma: Community mental health is for everyone
- Michigan’s community mental health agencies take action to reduce stigma around getting care
- Carter Kits help first responders take better care of patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Genesee Health System earns “Top Workplace” award
- Community mental health brings Sawyer Auger to Sanilac County: “It’s OK to not be OK”
- Community mental health in action: 5K stomps out stigma
- Smaller does mean better for residents in adult foster care homes
- Michigan community mental health agencies recognize families’ role in treatment
- Community mental health offers BIPOC youth hope through mental health supports
- Here’s how Michigan’s community mental health agencies are helping prevent youth suicide
- ACT helps adults living with serious mental illness maintain independence and community
- Mental Health First Aid helps people experiencing symptoms and crises
- First Step Psychiatric Urgent Care Center a stepping stone to mental wellness
- Michigan’s community mental health and law enforcement agencies team up to keep people out of jail
- Michigan’s CCBHCs open mental health access to all
- OnPoint’s mobile crisis team brings help to Allegan County residents with urgent mental health needs
- Community mental health meets Northern Michiganders where they’re at with mobile crisis intervention
- CMHs, foster care workers, and parents foster hope for Michigan’s most vulnerable children
- Genesee Health System’s new facility showcases commitment to Flint youth’s mental health
- Community mental health agency call lines connect Michiganders with local crisis care
- Washtenaw County’s mental health crisis team offers 24/7 mobile support for residents in need
- Here’s good news for Michiganders’ mental health: Community mental health delivers cutting-edge care
News Coverage of CMHA and Members
Radio and Television Coverage of CMHA Members, CMHA, and persons served by the system:
- LifeWays Offers Mental Health Tips in Response to MSU Crisis
- Michigan Child Trauma Soared During Pandemic
- 9&10NEWS: North Country Critters – a business run by persons served at NCCMH
- WXYZ interview: Robert Sheehan & Robert McCann re: COVID, mental health, and schools
- Mental Health Town Hall- CMHA of CEI; WLNS-TV; March 17, 2021
- Mother of teen in need of mental health care WNEM Channel 5; March 4, 2021
- 6 new CCBHC sites open in Michigan, WLNS-TV, 2.19.2021
Print News Coverage of CMHA Members, CMHA, and persons served by the system:
- U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow joins roundtable discussion sponsored by Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties
- Opinion: Michigan mental health public providers need staffing changes
- CMHA op-ed on mental health workforce gap
- Detroit News Editorial – Stabenow: State’s mental health outlook is improving | Opinion
- CMHA op-ed on mental health care access
- Gongwer: “Officials Look To Next Session For Mental Health System Fix”
- CMHA and Michigan League release joint editorial on need for strengthened mental health care
- CMHA and partners review statewide survey on healthcare access
- As Michiganders struggle to afford health care, leaders push lawmakers to act
- Update on placement of CMHA/MLPP op-ed on mental health crisis care
- Our benefits work – please don’t change them
- Poll: Michigan voters oppose privatization of mental health services, Huron Daily Tribune
- 300,000 People Rely on Michigan’s Public Mental Health System – Republicans Want to Privatize It
- Stabenow Opposes Shirkey Mental Health Integration Bills
- Detroit News: They’re some of Michigan’s most vulnerable; The system supporting them is broken.
- Radio Results Network: Whitmer Proposes Tax Breaks, Capping Cost Of Insulin
- 5 takeaways from Whitmer’s State of the State; From tax cuts to in-person classes
- Michigan safety officials encourage students to seek mental health resources
- Petoskey News Bills Threaten Safety Nets – Nov 26, 21
- CMHA Editorial: Build on Michigan’s proven public mental health system October 24, 2021
- Detroit News: “Father’s illness drove Stabenow’s work to improve mental health access” October 22, 2021
- Michigan Advance Article: “Advocates worry Whitmer won’t veto bills privatizing mental health care” October 17, 2021
- Crain’s Article: Administration neutral so far on $3 billion Medicaid mental health debate October 12, 2021
- Senator Stabenow, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist and Director Hertel Announce Launch of Transformational Mental Health and Addiction Initiative in Michigan October 13, 2021
- Section of Mental Health Code related to pick up by peace officers October 4, 2021
- Mental Health Weekly Article September 27, 2021
- Bridge Article: Latest effort to reform Michigan’s mental-health system finds critics
- Tom Watkins Detroit News Editorial
- Michigan Senate leader’s plans to overhaul mental health system worries advocates (Detroit News)
- Coalition Press Release – May 5, 2021
- Gongwer Article: “Staff Shortages, Client Crises Made COVID Hard On Mental Health Services”
- “6 additional Michigan CCBHC sites announced” Michigan Business Network, February 16, 2021
- CMHA and law enforcement partners – joint statement: Recognizing and Strengthening Michigan’s Law Enforcement and Mental Health Partnerships
- CMHA: Bridge Magazine “The impact of 2020 on our mental health is often overlooked”
- CMHA: Bridge Magazine “Time to Close Michigan’s Access Gap to Mental Health Services”
- CMHA: Crain’s Detroit Business – CCBHC expands to 6 more Michigan communities
- CMHA: Crain’s Detroit Business – Mental Health System Under Stress 8.31.2020
- CMHA: Featured in MiBiz article on mental health indicators
- CMHA: Keeping the CCBHC momentum going in Michigan
- CMHA: Recognizing Behavioral Healthcare Workers Editorial by Robert Sheehan, CEO
- CMHA: What’s next for Michigan’s direct care workers
- CMH for Central Michigan: Support for Parents of Children with Challenging Behavior
- CMH for Central Michigan: Tips and Advice for Employment During Stay at Home Order
- Northpointe: Creative Ways to Work With Children Through TeleHealth
Walk A Mile Rally 2022
The live event will be taking place on September 15, 2022.
Media coverage of this event will be added to this page after the event takes place.