HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2019.03.14 - 31018MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION ,t9066
BY: Commissioners Shelley Taub, District #12;
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — EXPANDING THE SERVICES OF YOUTH MOBILE CRISIS
TEAM TO ALL CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN OAKLAND COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Oakland County Youth Mobile Crisis is a unique service provided by New Oakland Family
Centers in partnership with Oakland Community Health Network (OCHN) to assist the children, youth and
young adults of Oakland County experiencing a crisis situation; and
WHEREAS Michigan residents who have been diagnosed with a serious emotional disturbance (SED),
intellectual and/or developmental disability, autism, or a co-occurring serious emotional disturbance and
substance use disorder (SUD) receive specialty public mental health services delivered by Community
Mental Health Services Programs (CMHSP); and
WHEREAS specialty services are primarily funded through Michigan's ten Prepaid Inpatient Health Plans
(PIHP) under contract with the state Medicaid agency; and
WHEREAS the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Intensive crisis stabilization
services (ICSS) are structured treatment and support activities provided by a mobile intensive crisis
stabilization team that are designed to promptly address a crisis situation in order to avert a psychiatric
admission or other out-of-home placement or to maintain a child or youth in their home or present living
arrangement who has recently returned from a psychiatric hospitalization or other out-of-home placement;
and
WHEREAS these services are available to children or youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
and/or intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) including autism, or co-occurring SED and substance
use disorder (SUD); and
WHEREAS OCHN serves as the region 8 PIHP and CMHSP for Oakland County under the Intensive Crisis
Stabilization Services (ICSS) for children; and
WHEREAS OCHN and New Oakland have partnered to provide a Youth Mobile Crisis Team to support
Oakland County residents who are in need of ICSS services; and
WHEREAS the New Oakland Youth Mobile Crisis Team's mission is to provide rapid mobile response to
children and youth in crisis, stabilize emotional and/or behavioral functioning, provide assessment and
coordination for continued stabilization, and connect individuals and families to services; and
WHEREAS this program development is for youth ages birth to 21 who are in need of assistance dealing
with a crisis like social isolation, loss of coping skills, suicidal thoughts, self-harm or aggression and property
destruction; and
WHEREAS the deployment of the team is based on the supports determined to stabilize a crisis situation
in an effort to maintain the child or youths' current living arrangement and deters an inpatient hospitalization
or other out-of-home placement; and
WHEREAS the New Oakland Youth Mobile Crisis Team travels throughout Oakland County to meet youth
at their homes, parks, or other public gatherings; and
WHEREAS the New Oakland Youth Mobile Crisis Team is a service specific for children, youth and young
adults in Oakland County and only provided to those individuals on Medicaid or are Medicaid eligible; and
WHEREAS children, youth or young adults experiencing a crisis should not be limited by health plan
coverage options when seeking intervention with mental and behavioral health services.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners champions and
supports providing mental, emotional and behavioral health services to all residents of Oakland County,
and calls upon OCHN to explore the moral charge to assist all the children, youth and young adults of
Oakland County with the New Oakland Youth Mobile Crisis Team's integral service to those most vulnerable
individuals in our community regardless of health plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the Oakland County Board of Commissioners calls upon OCHN to present
to the Healthy Communities and Environment Committee an overview of the New Oakland Youth Mobile
Crisis Team services and the expansion of services to all children, youth, and young adults who are
residents of Oakland County.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Clerk/Register of Deeds is requested to forward
copies of this adopted resolution to the Director of Oakland Community Health Netwo;k.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Resolution # 19066 March 14, 2019
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Healthy Communities and Environment Committee. There
were no objections.