About CMHA-CEI

Who We Are

Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties (CMHA-CEI) is a public agency serving people in Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties. As a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) CMHA-CEI provides a comprehensive set of services used to increase access to care, support people in crisis, and provide treatment for those with the most serious and complex behavioral health needs regardless of their insurance coverage. CCBHC’s integrate additional services that focus on recovery, wellness, trauma-informed care, and physical-behavioral health care integration. For more detail, please see the CMHA-CEI Services Booklet.

We treat adults and children with:

• Emotional/behavioral challenges,
• Intellectual/developmental disabilities, and
• Substance user issues.

History

The Community Mental Health Board of Clinton-Eaton-Ingham Counties (CMHB) was formed in 1964, initially as a federally funded community mental health center, serving Lansing. Starting in the 1970s, the major theme that drove Michigan’s CMH system was de-institutionalization – allowing persons who formerly lived in state hospitals and DD centers, to live in the community. This theme launched the transfer of thousands of Michigan residents from treatment in state facilities to treatment in their home communities, by the CMH system.

The organization moved towards its current legal structure, when the Community Mental Health Board of Clinton-Eaton-Ingham Counties was created, under the authority of Public Act 54 and the Urban Cooperation Act. PA 54 was superseded in 1974 when the Michigan legislature enacted Public Act 258, the new Michigan Mental Health Code. This state legislation transferred greater levels of responsibility for mental health services from state to local government. The Mental Health Code, the law which governs all state and local mental health programs in Michigan, is continually revised and since 1995 has moved even more responsibility from the state to the local level.

The CMHB became a managed care organization with full management in the early 1980s. In 1998, the CMHB took on the care management role for the mental health component of the Medicaid program in addition to its “safety net” role in serving non-Medicaid consumers. In 2002, a number of smaller CMHSPs were required to either affiliate or merge with other CMHSPs to form PIHPs which covered at least 20,000 Medicaid enrollees. As a result of this mandate CMHB became an authority now called the Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties and formed the Community Mental Health Affiliation of Mid-Michigan with Gratiot, Ionia, Manistee, Benzie and Newaygo County CMHs. In 2014, CMHA-CEI joined with 12 other CMHs to form the current Mid-State Health Network Prepaid Inpatient Health Plan (PIHP).

Clinical Philosophy

• Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties (CMHA-CEI) is committed to providing excellent behavioral health care.
  • We aspire to provide care that is individualized, trauma-informed, holistic, person-centered, and strength-based.
  • We strive to provide services driven by the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice to empower people.
  • We consistently engage in professional growth to expand our knowledge, improve service delivery, and increase access to resources.
  • We are dedicated to creating solutions with those we support through collaboration.
  • We believe unconditional dignity and respect are vital to the success of those we serve in our community.

Vision

The Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties holds this vision of a community:

• A community in which any person with a mental health need* has access to a wide range of resources to allow the person to seek desired quality of life and to participate, with dignity, in the life of the community, with its freedoms and responsibilities
• A community defined by justice for persons with mental health needs

*Persons with mental health needs include those with a mental illness, an emotional disturbance, a developmental disability and/or a substance use disorder.

Mission

The organization’s mission is to fulfill two complementary but distinct roles in realizing this vision:

• Behavioral healthcare provider – Providing, directly and through partnerships, a comprehensive set of person-centered, high quality, and effective behavioral health and developmental disability services to the residents of this community
• Advocate, catalyst, thought leader, and convener – Fostering the transformation of all aspects of community life, eliminating inequities, and promoting the common good for all, especially for persons with mental health needs

Organizational Structure