Help Michigan families with MDHHS health services

Christine Hand - Griffiths

To help our children.

Diana Krill

My daughter has developmental and neurological disabilities and CMH is denying programs and treatment her neurological team deems medically necessary or could result in severe bodily harm or even death

G Gazdecki

This is important to everyone that pays taxes to provide assistance to those who it is intended for, not political rerouting for something else. This is a felony and will be fully prosecuted against, not the defenseless bearing the intentional shortage of aid to those it was actually it was intended. "Prosecute" in a single word, applying restitution, fines and maximum sentencing.

Lynne Klandrud

Hopefully all the children will benefit from this

Brynn Dudlets

Affects someone in my family personally

Shelly Pilette

Families of special needs adults are desperate for services. Their needs don’t disappear when they age out of public school @ 26. Neither should their support.

Andrea Canales

Because family need help!! Michigan needs to help family’s with disabled children.

Special needs son age 30 utililizes Dhhs services

The system is broken. The automated phone service doesn't give you the option to simply speak to someone. There aren't options for all questions. It sends you round and round a loop. Simply is the operative word. They make it very very difficult to get a hold of a live person. It should be more user friendly. They also said you have to update your info every 6 months. After you do that if you need assistance within those 6 months you have to do it all over again. Fill out forms, upload bills and documents, etc. It's not always easy to upload the necessary paperwork. ETC ETC ETC

I encourage anyone who holds a position to do more to help families get the services they desperately need. Making the system work rather than making it a hardship for so many who are left behind. So many who give up and is costing lives. Show some humanity and compassion for those who desperately need it. Please.

We experienced all of this system failures in Jackson county.

Needs to happen!

Sounds like an amazing initiative!!

Please Start doing better things to HELP kids. It must start somewhere and that is why you are being contacted. Thank you.

I appreciate your dedication to our children with special needs. I have a 10 year old son nonverbal and I know how hard this is. Thank you.

As a mom of a child with ASD we waited on several lists for ABA for about a year after being diagnosed. Our pediatrician's rep actually continued working with us and actually located an office just up the street from our home - and they were fabulous. We just felt the time missed being taken out of school for ABA school would delay our son more. And the cost, though supposedly covered was insane! We paid in installments over the span of many months for attending just during the 2 months of the summer. The ABA set up offered a lot of the same services we already received for free in our school system. For us, it did not make sense. Speech and OT options are what need to be covered, not just ABA. Those are what we really needed! We waited a year on one other list and finally got called by them also, only when we had decided ABA was not our best route. Being on the fence about ABA after reading so many horror stories, we were apprehensive going in. Other than cost and losing school time our experience was really positive. Healing Haven was wonderful, and got us right in and promoted parent involvement too. Sadly many never find a place to even get in. We need more AFFORDABLE and ACCESSIBLE options like them!

Change is needed.

Gladly my grandchild is perfect but lucky , my other daughter helps as much. Kinda hard to afford.

Mother of an autistic son here in michigan

If we know better, we do better. The time is now.