Weekly Update January 17, 2025
State & Federal Developments
Support Your CMH PAC – Donate TODAY!
CMH PAC (Political Action Committees) gives money to candidates running for elective office who support and advocate on behalf of Michigan’s publicly funded mental health system. By making a donation to the CMH PAC, you are ensuring that issues important to mental health are not left out of the dialog in Lansing.
Why Support CMH PAC?
In the Michigan Legislature there are:
- More new legislators due to term limits.
- Fewer legislators with in-depth knowledge about behavioral health issues.
- More legislative proposals that directly and indirectly impact Michigan’s publicly funded mental health system.
- More aggressive interest groups competing for limited resources.
- Very few legislative champions for persons with mental health, developmental/intellectual disabilities and substance use disorders.
CMH PAC helps overcome some of these obstacles by raising awareness for issues that are important to behavioral health care. The CMH PAC supports legislators/candidates who support and advocate on behalf of Michigan’s publicly funded mental health system.
Interested in contributing to CMH PAC?
Donate online or mail check donations to our offices located at 507 S. Grand Ave., Lansing, MI 48933. Please make checks payable to CMH PAC.
Education, Sponsorship & Exhibition
CMHA 2025 Annual Winter Conference – Early Bird Deadline Friday, January 17 at 5pm
CMHA’s Annual Winter Conference, Celebrate Abilities…Inspire Possibilities, will take place on February 3-5, 2025, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The conference will feature leadership, advocacy, CCBHC, crisis response, workforce development, behavioral and SUD health homes, CIT, suicide prevention, hospital readmission reduction strategies, oral health, lean management, artificial intelligence, lived experience, HIPAA, confidentiality, independent facilitators, organizational change, Boardworks, updates on Lansing and more! View the conference brochure and register here.
Call for Presentations: 26th Annual Substance Use and Co-Occurring Disorder Hybrid Conference
Join us September 7-9, 2025 at the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa in Traverse City, Michigan or virtually. Submit your presentation proposal now!
CMHA Events
To search all upcoming CMHAM events, including conferences, trainings and webinars click here.
Great Lakes Mental Health Technology Transfer Center
Great Lakes MHTTC in transition to multi-regional partnership
As Weekly Update readers know, CMHA is the Michigan partner with the SAMHSA funded Great Lakes Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC). That partnership provides Michigan’s behavioral health community with access to cutting edge education and training offerings from across the country and the Great Lakes region while also allowing CMHA to expand its catalog of education and training offerings to its members and allies.
On October 1, 2024, the Great Lakes Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) will be transitioning to a multi-region Center, led by the University of Wisconsin (the leader of the Great Lakes MHTTC) and Stanford University.
CMHA will keep you informed as to the role of CMHA in that new partnership and the resources that this new partnership will be able to provide to CMHA members.
After October 1, you will be able to have access to all of the resources developed by the Great Lakes MHTTC at the University of Wisconsin’s website.