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March 08, 2010
March 8, 2010
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and its partners have made significant progress in reforming the state's child welfare system, including reuniting children with their families, finding permanent homes when that's not possible, and providing additional support services, department leaders said today.
"All children deserve a permanent, loving home," MDHHS Director Ismael Ahmed said. "For the past year, our department and our partners have undertaken significant reforms to make sure we're doing our part to make that happen for the children in Michigan's foster care system."
Accomplishments include:
"MDHHS, along with our private agency providers, have made significant strides toward lowering worker caseloads; expanding and enhancing services to children and families; and moving children to permanency," said Kathryne O'Grady, MDHHS Children's Services Administration director. "Our goal is that the children who come to us can exit the foster care system better off than when they entered."
Ahmed and O'Grady spoke at today's event in Lansing as part of Parenting Awareness Month, which celebrates people raising children and promotes resources to help them with this important task.
An example of one such resource is additional mental health services available to more than 265 children in Genesee, Ingham, Kalamazoo, Macomb, Oakland, Saginaw and Wayne counties who are seriously emotionally disturbed, O'Grady said. These children are now eligible to receive intensive at-home mental health services under a partnership between MDHHS and the Michigan Department of Community Health to expand Medicaid availability.
The department's focus on quality services has had a significant impact on the lives of Michigan's children, agreed Michael E. Williams, president and CEO of Orchards Children's Services based in Southfield. Orchards specializes in a variety of programs focused on strengthening the child, family and community.
"MDHHS' improvements have heightened and improved all service models for children," Williams said. "In particular, the level of efficiency through the courts and MDHHS made is possible to increase permanency for children. Last April, for example, we matched 23 children with adoptive families. That's about what would have happened in a three-month period in previous times."
The strong partnerships between the department and the private providers who also work to find permanent homes for children produce the best results, said Janet Reynolds Snyder, Executive Director of the Michigan Federation for Children and Families.
"Our private agencies are committed to meeting the needs of children with the state through this partnership," she added.
For more information on MDHHS, please visit www.michigan.gov/mdhhs.