Public comment is requested on the Michigan Department of Community Health's annual application for Community Mental Health Block Grant funding. The application is a fiscal year 2011 update to the approved three-year plan (2009 - 2011) for Michigan's community mental health system and is for funding in the amount of $12,810,013 for the fiscal year that begins October 1, 2011. These annual funds are used to improve public community-based mental health services for adults who have serious mental illness and for children who have serious emotional disturbance.
The plan can be accessed at the following site:
http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2941_4868_4902-125922--,00.html. There is a link at the site that may be used to submit comments. Comments may also be made in person at meetings of the Advisory Council on Mental Illness.
If you would like a copy of the plan e-mailed to you, or would like information on the Advisory Council meetings, please call Karen Cashen, Grants Manager, at (517) 335-5934 or e-mail her at
cashenk@michigan.gov.