Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): The ACT
Team provides services to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. It offers a wide array of clinical, medical, or rehabilitative services during face-to-face interventions that are designed to assist individuals to live in the community or help while transitioning to a more independent living arrangement.
Autism Benefit: This is a benefit to provide intensive Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) interventions for children 0-21 years with the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. ABA is a scientific approach to changing behavior and teaching skills and is internationally recommended for children with autism.
Behavioral Services: A program for individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities and/or mental illness to assess behavior problems and to develop and implement treatment plans to address those behaviors.
BRAVO: Provides support to people with intellectual/developmental disabilities so that they can live, work and play where they choose. These supports may include helping with personal business, grocery shopping, cooking, managing money, assisting at doctor appointments, housekeeping, attending community events, and respite.
Case Management/Supports Coordination: Provides assessment, service planning, linking/coordinating, followup, and monitoring services to adults and children with mental illness and/or intellectual/developmental disabilities.
Community Support: A program for individuals with persistent mental illness, Community Support provides practical assistance at home and in the community with such things as medication management, money management, grocery shopping, and housekeeping.
Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment: Provides treatment to people with a combination of mental illness and/or intellectual/developmental disabilities and substance use disorder. This approach helps people recover by offering mental health and substance abuse treatment together.
Emergency Services: Services are available 24-hours a day, 365 days a year to persons having a mental health emergency requiring immediate assistance. Services include crisis intervention, assessment, and pre-screening for hospitalization.
Employment Services Coordination: Designed to locate worksites, train, and provide ongoing/follow-up support to individuals interested in securing communitybased employment.
Home-Based Services: Designed to support and empower families who have one or more mentally ill children who are at risk for out-of-home placement. This array of services focuses on strengthening the family and utilizes prevention methods to help keep the child and family together.
Intensive Crisis Stabilization (ICS): ICS services are a short-term alternative to inpatient hospitalization or can also be used to provide additional support to allow earlier discharge from a hospital. These services are structured treatment and support activities provided by a team of mental health staff in a person’s home or community setting.
Jail Diversion: Designed to divert individuals with serious mental illness or intellectual/developmental disability that come in contact with the justice system from custody and/or jail and provide linkages to community-based treatment and support services.
Nursing Home Services (OBRA/PASARR):
The OBRA Team works with area hospitals and nursing homes to identify and address the mental health needs of persons residing in long-term facilities.
Nursing Services: Services are available to individuals receiving psychiatric services and include initial phone screening for psychiatric referrals, medication injections, tracking vital signs, screenings for tardive dyskinesia, and providing education.
Outpatient Therapy: Provides assessment and
treatment services for adults with a severe mental illness or children with serious emotional disturbance. The type of help offered varies and may address family relationship problems, parent/child conflicts, interpersonal-social conflicts, and symptoms related to depression, anxiety and other acute psychiatric problems. Services are provided at offices in Houghton, Calumet, L’Anse and Ontonagon.
Peer Support Specialist (PSS) Services:
PSS Services are provided by individuals who are on their own recovery journey, who have a serious mental illness, are receiving or have received services from the public mental health system, or have a child who is receiving services. PSS are hired to share their life experience and provide expertise to consumers that professional disciplines cannot replicate. They provide
a wide range of services including health integration, assistance with benefits and housing, community inclusion, health education, and promoting recovery.
Psychiatric Services: Provides assessment and
treatment services for persons with more severe
psychiatric problems. Staff psychiatrists provide
continuing treatment with psychotropic medications.
Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Northern Lights
Clubhouse provides services to members using the Clubhouse Model. Adult members with a mental illness are involved in a work-ordered day to operate the Clubhouse. Focusing on members’ strengths, talents, and abilities provides opportunities to increase independence in the community.
Residential Services: Group homes serve adults
with intellectual/developmental disabilities and/or mental illness who require help with daily activities and a structured living environment. People receive assistance 24-hours a day from trained staff.
Respite: Services are provided to an eligible
beneficiary on a short-term, intermittent basis to
relieve the beneficiary’s family or other primary
caregiver(s) from daily stress and care demands during times when they are providing unpaid care.
Skill Building: Programs provide services in a
structured setting to people with severe mental illness and/or intellectual/developmental disabilities. Services assist the person to engage in meaningful activities and achieve goals of independence, community inclusion, and employment. These programs are available at the centers in L’Anse and Ontonagon.
Training & Prevention (The Institute): Provides a
variety of education, prevention, and training
programs including: adolescent development, asset building, child development, community education, depression education, infant mental health, mental health training, parent education, stress management, substance abuse prevention, violence prevention, and youth social skill development.
Wraparound: Wraparound is an individually
designed set of services and supports provided to
children with serious emotional disturbance and their families that includes treatment services, personal support services or any other supports necessary to maintain the child in the family home. The Wraparound plan is developed using a team approach including the youth, parents/guardians, involved service providers, and others whom the family identifies as supportive for attaining their goals.