Newsroom
The work of the Community Mental Health Association of Michigan (CMHA) and its members are, from time to time, featured in radio, television, news print and other related forms from across the state. This section of the CMHA web page features those new stories.
News stories generated by the partnership with Common Ground, Issue Media Group
This partnership, with Common Ground, part of the Issue Media Group (IMG) family, is built around the concept of “solutions journalism” – providing news about innovative and concrete ways that communities, across Michigan, are addressing the needs of their residents along a number of dimensions – healthcare, economic development, education, the arts, to name a few. Solutions journalism investigates and explains, in a critical and clear-eyed way, how people try to solve widely shared problems. While news sources and many of us typically define news as “what’s gone wrong,” solutions journalism runs counter to that definition by covering the innovative responses to identified needs and problems.
This partnership ensures that the work of Michigan’s public mental health system is highlighted in IMG’s large suite of solutions journalism-focused publications.
You can subscribe, at no cost, to these publications, on the websites of each of these publications. The list of partner publications and their websites are provided below:
- Second Wave – Michigan
- Capital Gains – Lansing
- Catalyst Midland
- Concentrate – Ann Arbor/Ypsi
- Epicenter – Mount Pleasant
- Flintside
- Metromode – Metro Detroit
- Model D
- Route Bay City
- Rural Innovation Exchange
- Second Wave -Southwest Michigan
- The Keel – Port Huron
- The Lakeshore
- Upword – UP
News story articles below:
- Transportation: An overlooked barrier to mental health care
- How Housing First stabilizes mental health
- Children’s mental health: When and where to access care
- St. Clair County CMH: Social determinants of health and whole-person care
- LifeWays: Why Infant Mental Health Matters
- Persons served share concerns regarding MDHHS proposed bid out of system management
- Montcalm Care Network stakeholder shares views regarding MDHHS proposed bid out of system management
- Community mental health’s unsung heroes: Ashley Gibson, recovery coach
- Local networks, real results: Success stories from Michigan’s CMHs
- Mental health equity: Changes, challenges, and paving a path forward
- Community mental health agency integrates care with onsite primary care and pharmacy
- SDOH Hubs improve mental and physical health while reducing disparities
- Gongwer: Stabenow, mental health groups call for DHHS to scrap plans to move to competitive procurement process for PIHPs
- Crains: State push to bid out mental health coverage draws fire
- Mid-Michigan Now: Opposition mounts against Michigan mental health privatization plan
- Mid-Michigan Now newscast (video)
News Coverage of CMHA and Members
Radio and Television Coverage of CMHA Members, CMHA, and persons served by the system:
- Mental health provider, LifeWays, warns patients of state health department changes | WILX-10
- LifeWays Expresses Concern Over MDHHS-Proposed Mental Health Care Restructuring | WKHM-AM
- Robert Sheehan, The Detroit News: MDHHS actions threaten Michigan’s public mental health system
Print News Coverage of CMHA Members, CMHA, and persons served by the system:
- Crains: Michigan cancels bidding for billions in Medicaid mental health services after court ruling
- MDHHS Cancels Bid Out for PIHP
- Detroit News: Caring for persons with serious mental illness
- CMHSP Board Members Should Unite To Protect Consumer Voice In MDHHS Procurement of Pre-Paid Inpatient Health Plans
- Northeast Michigan Community Mental Health facing significant funding cuts
- DHHS must save mental health care for CMH providers
- Mental Health Association Sounds Alarm On Funding Gap
- CMHA Op-Ed: The Need for a Collaborative Approach to Mental Health in Schools
Walk A Mile Rally 2025
Media coverage of this event that took place on Wednesday, September 17, 2025 can be found below.
Senator Stabenow and Representative Rheingans at press conference in opposition to MDHHS bid out proposal: https://vimeo.com/1121988990/07f17a65c6?share=copy
Emily White at press conference in opposition to MDHHS bid out proposal: https://vimeo.com/1121903427/e7c5074570
Labor leadership at press conference in opposition to MDHHS bid out proposal: https://vimeo.com/1121671023/84751bb17b