HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.07.25 - 11163Miscellaneous Resolution # 85196 June 27, 1985
By: HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE--Nancy McConnell, Chairperson
In Re: COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH--PONTIAC AREA DROP-IN CENTER
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS in the Pontiac area there is a concentration of chronically
mentally ill adults living, many of whom are unemployed and lack meaningful
activities during the day and evening hours; and
WHEREAS activity programs for this patient population tend to achieve
a greater level of acceptance and success when they are directed by the
patients themselves, under the general oversight of Community Mental Health
staff; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Community Mental Health Services Board
has requested and received funding from the State on behalf of the "Pontiac
Area Drop-In Center" for an activities program which would be located at
Baldwin Avenue United Methodist Church and directed by a board elected
by the patients who will attend the program; and
WHEREAS the Baldwin Avenue United Methodist Church has agreed
to act as financial agent in the Community Mental Health Board's contract
for proposed funding of the Pontiac Area Drop-In Center; and
WHEREAS the Center's schedule of activities for chronically mentally
ill adults living the Pontiac area would be coordinated with other clinical
services of Community Mental Health for this patient group, and the Center
would be a very valuable adjunct to the more traditional mental health services
offered by Community Mental Health.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board
of Commissioners approve the proposed Pontiac Area Drop-In Center program
as presented by the Community Mental_ Health Division and authorize necessary
County matching funds.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a review of the program be presented
to the Health and Human Resources Committee after six (6) months.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Health and Human Resources Committee,
I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Health and/Human Resources Cc Heallth and/Human Resources Committee
HpEBYtiPROVE THE FPREGOING RESOL UTION
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PONTIAC AREA DROP-1N CENTER
The Center will be a new type of program in Oakland County -- though similar
programs have been established successfully in many other places -- offering
a wide range of day activities for chronically mentally ill adults, What
makes the Center unique and complementary to more traditional Community Mental
Health day programming is that it will be directed by the patients themselves,
through an elected board. This form of organization will insure that the
program's content is extremely responsive to the needs of the patients; and
that the patients will view the Center as their "own" and therefore participate
in its scheduled activities more fully than they would in a program which was
prescribed entirely by mental health professionals.
The Pontiac Area Drop-In Center is not intended as a substitute for regular'
clinical treatment, but as an adjunct to such treatment. The Center will
combine socialization and recreation activities, field trips, peer discussion
groups, talks on mental health and other topics of general interest to the
members, and similar activities planned by the board of the Center. The
goals are to offer social and emotional support to the members, as well as
practical advice and assistance from peers, in order to help chronically mentally
ill adults in the Pontiac area and Oakland County reorient their lives as far
as possible to an involvement with community life and a successful integration
in that life. More concretely, the support offered by the Center is expected
to reduce patients' need for rehospitalization.
The program will be open 28 hours a week in the afternoons and on Saturday
evenings, and will be based in the Baldwin Avenue United Methodist Church,
which has agreed to provide rent-free space and to act as the fiscal agent in
the Community Mental Health Board's contract with the organization of patients
known as "By Consumers - For Consumers," which will operate the Drop-In Center.
We expect that between 200 and 300 patients per year will participate in the
activities of the Center.
The budget will support a part-time program supervisor and six part-time
activity coordinators, all patients themselves and all paid at the minimum
wage. Also included in the budget are funds for admissions to concerts, sports
events, etc; food supplies; games and recreational supplies;_ office expenses;
and patient group transportation.
Budget (July - December, 1985):
Personnel $4,300
Operating 3,200
Furniture C Fixtures
TOTAL $7,500
FISCAL NOTE
BY: FINANCE COMMITTEE, DR. G. WILLIAM CADDELL, CHAIRPERSON
IN RE: COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH - PONTIAC AREA DROP-IN CENTER -MISCELLANEOUS
RESOLUTION #85196
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Pursuant to Rule XI-C of this Board, the Finance Committee has reviewed
Miscellaneous Resolution #85196 and finds:
1) The Oakland County Community Mental Health Services Board has received
State funding for activity programs on behalf of the "Pontiac Area
Drop-in Center",
2) The Community Mental Health Services Board intends to enter into a contract
with the Baldwin Avenue United Methodist Church who would host the drop-
in center and act as the financial agent,
3) The budget includes funds for a part-time program supervisor and six
part-time activity coordinators; all positions will be filled by
patients earning minimum wage (see attached schedule),
4) The annual budget for this program is $15,000; the State portion is
$13,500 (90%) and the County portion is $1,500 (10%),
5) The effective date of this program is July 1, 1985,
6) The increase to the 1985 Community Mental Health budget is $7,500,
requiring the following transactions:
Appropriation
22200-166-New Unit-00-3042 Client Services $7,500
Revenue
22200-166-New Unit County Match $ 750
22200-903-01-00-9340 State Match 6,750
$7,500
10100-909-01-00-9900 Contingency $ (750)
FINANCE COMMITTEE
M. R. #85196 COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH -
PONTIAC AREA DROP-IN CENTER
6 months 12 Months
Salaries $4,300 $ 8,600
Professional Services 250 500
Personal Mileage 400 800
Office Supplies 100 200
Provisions 950 1,900
Recreation 1,250 2,500
Telephone 250 500
Total $7,500 $15,000
Note: The Baldwin Avenue United Methodist Church is providing
the space at no charge to the program.
#85196 July 25, 1985
this 25th_ day of / ) Juj 19 85
EN
Clerk/Register of Deeds Coun
Moved by Susan Kuhn supported by Moffitt •the resolution, with Fiscal Note
attached, be adopted,
AYES: Moffitt, Nelson, Olsen, Pernick, Price, ,Rewold, Skarritt, Webb,
Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Calandro, Doyon, Forttno, Gosling; HassFerger, Hobart,
R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, McDonald, McPherson, (22)
NAYS: None, (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, with Fiscal
Note attached, was adopted
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
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COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal, .
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of the attached
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on July 25,19_135
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan