Mission
The community system of care embraces, serves, and supports children with serious emotional disturbance and their families so children are safe and successful with their families and in their community.
Theory of Change
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Community Resources
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What is Impact?
Impact is a partnership of child and family-serving agencies working in cooperation to provide coordinated services for children with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and their families. The main goal of Impact is to build and enhance home- and community-based services for young people involved with the juvenile justice system and/or Department of Human Services.
This is the kind of care that has proven most likely to help young people and families have life-long success.
A system of care is a partnership of everyone who cares for a child — families, teachers, service agencies, health providers, and more. Impact promotes the meaningful involvment of families and youth, which ensures that a child and their family receive the services and supports they need to succeed.
Ingham County System of Care
SCOPE OF SERVICES
The scope of services provided through Impact/Ingham County System of Care include the following:
Family Guidance Home Based Services: Family Guidance home based therapists will provide treatment activities based upon established and recognized methods such as strength-based and family-centered therapy, solution-oriented therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, behavior management consultation, and coordination and collaboration with other involved agencies and individuals.
Wraparound Services: The wraparound component will provide strength-based, family-centered wraparound facilitation activities, which include coordinating a strength-based assessment of the child and family, conducting and facilitating child and family team meetings on a regular basis, facilitating the development of the family's wraparound plan, coordination and monitoring of the implementation of the plan, and facilitating the termination of wraparound services, including the development of a plan to assist the family in maintaining gains.
Impact Family Advocates: Impact Family Advocates are parents of children who experience emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges. Advocates partner with families to support, educate, and empower them to use their voice, develop positive relationships with service providers, and develop skills to navigate the systems with which the youth and family are involved.
Impact Family Advocates are provided by the Association for Children's Mental Health (ACMH); Michigan's state-wide family organization.
Who are the Impact Partners?
Youth and Families from Ingham County
Association for Children's Mental Health
Child and Family Services, Capital Area
Community Mental Health Authority, C-E-I
Ingham County Circuit Court, Family Division
Ingham County Department of Human Services