Director: Royal H. Calley, M.S., M.B.A.
Huron Valley Complex
3201 Bemis Road 
Ypsilanti, MI 48197 

     The Department of Corrections contracts with the Department of Community Health to operate the Corrections Mental Health Program.  The Director of the Department of Corrections appoints the Director of the Corrections Mental Health Program.  The Director of the Corrections Mental Health Program is an individual with an advanced degree in a mental health field and a minimum of 5 years' experience in a mental health field.  The Corrections Mental Health Program (CMHP) provides services to prisoners with serious mental illness.  The programs and services provided consists of Inpatient Services and Outpatient Clinical Operations.  Inpatient Services is located at Huron Valley Complex and has two subdivisions: Acute Care and Rehabilitation Treatment Services (RTS).  Outpatient Clinical Operations consists of Residential Treatment Programs and Outpatient Mental Health Programs located in correctional facilities throughout the state of Michigan.

Inpatient Services
Acute Inpatient (AC) Service
     The Acute Inpatient (AC) Service is an integral component of the CMHP continuum of care.  The primary mission of the prison-based AC is to provide intensive assessment and treatment, and rapid disposition for acutely mentally ill prisoners.  AC is an inpatient program providing 24-hour access to psychiatric, psychiatric nursing, and correctional services 7 days per week.  It is the preferred level of care for seriously mentally ill prisoners with active symptoms of psychosis or high suicide risk.  A multidisciplinary team of mental health and correctional professionals provides mental health care and programmatic intervention.  Custodial care is provided entirely by correctional personnel.  Services provided in this setting are more comprehensive than those typically available elsewhere in the CMHP continuum.  The AC program follows a biopsychosocial model, emphasizing intensive diagnostic assessment, stabilization with psychotropic medications, and brief psychotherapy.  It offers a protective environment that facilitates stabilization of acute psychiatric disorders and rapid triage to other levels of care.  Integrated services emphasize coordination with other service providers and organizations.

Crisis Stabilization Program (CSP)
     Crisis stabilization services are a vital component of the mental health continuum of care, which includes outpatient mental health services, residential treatment programs, and inpatient hospital units (acute care and rehabilitative services).  Crisis stabilization services may be provided in a specialized housing unit in a general population prison setting or hospital.  The unit provides services for managing disruptive prisoners whose behavior is linked to symptoms of mental illness or who are engaging in or threatening to engage in suicidal/self-injurious behavior.

Rehabilitation Treatment Services (RTS)
     Rehabilitation Treatment Services (RTS) is an essential component of the CMHP continuum of care.  Its primary mission is to provide inpatient treatment programs for chronically mentally ill convicted felons within a prison-based environment.  The programs are designed to ameliorate psychiatric symptoms and improve daily functioning.  The RTS is an appropriate level of care for seriously mentally ill prisoners with symptoms and functional deficits that are chronic, resistant to treatment, or disabling and who are not suitable for treatment in a less restrictive level of care.  Often they have prominent negative symptoms of mental illness, severe difficulties with social skills, and difficulty in negotiating the activities of daily living without frequent supervision and assistance.  The RTS follows a biopsychosocial rehabilitation model of mental illness and treatment.  The model emphasizes a prisoner's strengths and seeks to empower the individual to function as independently as possible in the prison setting.  The model addresses the residual psychosocial needs remaining after initial psychiatric treatment has been established.  The goal is to enable prisoners to function within a Residential Treatment Program (RTP), or another level of care within the CMHP.  The RTS also provides treatment and support services to prisoners who have received maximal benefit from acute psychiatric services but who, nevertheless, are not well enough for placement in an RTP.  This may include prisoners who have had partial or poor responses to psychotropic medications.

Outpatient Clinical Operations
     The mission of the Outpatient Clinical Operations is to provide mental health services to the Department of Corrections' prisoners that are efficient, effective, accessible, timely, and of a quality equal to or exceeding community standards.  The vision of the Outpatient Clinical Operations is to provide treatment to mentally ill prisoners which will empower them to function more independently, responsibly, and with self-control, thereby increasing the safety and security of the prisoners and the facility while preparing them for re-entry into the community with the skills and abilities to successfully complete parole.

Residential Treatment Program (RTP)
     The Residential Treatment Program (RTP) is the appropriate level of care for seriously mentally ill prisoners whose primary symptoms of psychiatric/psychological conditions have begun to remit but who continue to demonstrate significant impairments in social skills and limited ability to participate independently in activities of daily living.  The RTP is based on a biopsychosocial rehabilitation model.  Central to this concept is the notion that seriously mentally ill individuals cannot be successfully treated solely with psychotropic medications.  The primary treatment focus of the RTP is provision of those skills necessary to enable prisoners to independently function within the general prison population or in the community following placement in a correction center or parole release.  The RTP also provides treatment and support services to prisoners who no longer require psychiatric hospitalization, but have not progressed behaviorally to the point where they can function independently in general prison population without significant behavioral supports and modified behavioral expectations.

Outpatient Mental Health Treatment Program
     The Outpatient Mental Health Treatment Program serves two main functions.  One is to ensure continuity, quality and accessibility of care for prisoners discharged from Inpatient Acute Care and Rehabilitation Treatment Services and Residential Treatment Programs.  Secondly, this program serves as a point of entry into the CMHP for prisoners requiring services in mental health.  The outpatient team verifies whether prisoners identified by the Psychological Services Unit (DOC) are suffering from major mental illness and require mental health treatment.  The Outpatient Mental Health Treatment Program is based on a biocognitive behavior model, emphasizing correction of thought distortion, interpersonal interactions and biopsychosocial rehabilitation.  The target population for the Outpatient Mental Health Treatment Program consists of individuals with moderate functional impairment due to serious mental illness/serious mental disorders, who can care for their basic needs and live in the general population setting.