Lenawee Community Mental Health Authority, or LCMHA, is an agency that was designed as a place for anyone with a mental diagnosis to go to. In 1970, Lenawee County appointed its first mental health board to explore the cost and the need for a mental health program. The agency was first located in a vacated dentist office that was above a grocery store to be able to start the program right away. Shortly after in 1974, the agency relocated to the Riverside Professional Building. The directors and staff then spent the next three years developing the most efficient way to deliver services. The criteria of receiving services were very relaxed. Anyone who was in distress could receive services since the funding for LCMHA was aplenty. By 1984, LCMHA
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LCMHA encourages clients to live to their full potential even with if they are diagnosed with a mental illness. The staff assists the clients by creating achievable and time-sensitive outcomes. The outcomes can range from obtaining social security benefits to keeping their living environment clean. These allow the clients to regain control of their life and be empowered in doing …show more content…
The agency does not discriminate based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, or social class. The childrens unit deals with anyone under 18, and the MI unit deals with anyone above 18. Within the MI unit, there is also the geriatrics specialists who takes on cases of the elderly and those placed in assisted living or nursing homes. LCMHA is divided in this way to be able to provide the best type of care towards the client. The heavy stigma that is placed against mental health causes a load of discrimination and oppression onto the clients. Several of the client in the MI unit tend to not admit to having a mental diagnosis. This can be in suspect of the stigma and being seen as vulnerable. More so, the vulnerability of this population tends to be increasingly high. The costs for medications, case management, and various other forms of treatment tend to be on the expensive side. Much of the population tends to have several forms of insurance to be able to afford the
LCMHA encourages clients to live to their full potential even with if they are diagnosed with a mental illness. The staff assists the clients by creating achievable and time-sensitive outcomes. The outcomes can range from obtaining social security benefits to keeping their living environment clean. These allow the clients to regain control of their life and be empowered in doing …show more content…
The agency does not discriminate based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, or social class. The childrens unit deals with anyone under 18, and the MI unit deals with anyone above 18. Within the MI unit, there is also the geriatrics specialists who takes on cases of the elderly and those placed in assisted living or nursing homes. LCMHA is divided in this way to be able to provide the best type of care towards the client. The heavy stigma that is placed against mental health causes a load of discrimination and oppression onto the clients. Several of the client in the MI unit tend to not admit to having a mental diagnosis. This can be in suspect of the stigma and being seen as vulnerable. More so, the vulnerability of this population tends to be increasingly high. The costs for medications, case management, and various other forms of treatment tend to be on the expensive side. Much of the population tends to have several forms of insurance to be able to afford the