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 Issue Media Group
This partnership, with the Issue Media Group (IMG), 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:
- Rural mental health providers overcome stigma, rugged individualism, and distance to provide care
- Michigan hospitals and community mental health agencies collaborate for whole-person care
- Michigan’s CMHs work hard to ensure patient rights are understood and upheld
- LifeWays peer support and recovery staff inspire clients to ‘walk the walk’
- 20th ‘Walk a Mile in My Shoes’ rally promotes public mental health care
- Funding gap threatens care for Michiganders seeking help from community mental health agencies
- Project Connect brings together Sanilac County residents and resources
- Behavioral Health Homes: A transformative approach in Michigan
- CCBHCs extend mental health care to more Michiganders despite challenges
- Connecting to mental health services is as simple as picking up a phone
- LifeWays takes a whole person-centered care approach to health care
- Community mental health agency a resource for autism services
- When it comes to autism and mental health, stigma and discrimination play a huge role
- Social Work Career Promotion Tool Kit shares benefits and pathways to rewarding careers
- Business symposium kicks off series of spring be nice mental health events
- Addressing the Gap: The need for increased mental health support for LGBTQ Michiganders
- Sanilac County Community Mental Health helps families and children
- Washtenaw County Community Mental Health takes SUDs seriously
- How Michigan counties are stepping up to meet youth mental health needs
- Virtual Job Fair represents 40+ employers seeking behavioral health services professionals
News Coverage of CMHA and Members
Radio and Television Coverage of CMHA Members, CMHA, and persons served by the system:
- LifeWays Offers Mental Health Tips in Response to MSU Crisis
- Michigan Child Trauma Soared During Pandemic
- 9&10NEWS: North Country Critters – a business run by persons served at NCCMH
Print News Coverage of CMHA Members, CMHA, and persons served by the system:
- 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
- U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow joins roundtable discussion sponsored by Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties
- Opinion: Michigan mental health public providers need staffing changes
- CMHA op-ed on mental health workforce gap
- Detroit News Editorial – Stabenow: State’s mental health outlook is improving | Opinion
- CMHA op-ed on mental health care access
- Gongwer: “Officials Look To Next Session For Mental Health System Fix”
- CMHA and Michigan League release joint editorial on need for strengthened mental health care
- CMHA and partners review statewide survey on healthcare access
- As Michiganders struggle to afford health care, leaders push lawmakers to act
- Update on placement of CMHA/MLPP op-ed on mental health crisis care
- Our benefits work – please don’t change them
- Poll: Michigan voters oppose privatization of mental health services, Huron Daily Tribune
- 300,000 People Rely on Michigan’s Public Mental Health System – Republicans Want to Privatize It
- Stabenow Opposes Shirkey Mental Health Integration Bills
- Detroit News: They’re some of Michigan’s most vulnerable; The system supporting them is broken.
- Radio Results Network: Whitmer Proposes Tax Breaks, Capping Cost Of Insulin
- 5 takeaways from Whitmer’s State of the State; From tax cuts to in-person classes
Walk A Mile Rally 2024
This live event took place on Tuesday, September 17, 2024.
Media coverage of this event: 20th ‘Walk a Mile in My Shoes’ rally promotes public mental health care
Next years event will take place on Wednesday, September 17, 2025.