Learn about Mental Health
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Videos
Your Mental Health Connection
Your Mental Health Connection is a question-and-answer segment designed to help you understand mental health topics & services more fully
Your Mental Health Connection - January 10th
Your Mental Health Connection - February 14th
Your Mental Health Connection - March 13th
Your Mental Health Connection - April 10th
Your Mental Health Connection - May 8th
Your Mental Health Connection - June 12th
Your Mental Health Connection - July 10th
Your Mental Health Connection - August 22nd
Your Mental Health Connection - September 11th
Your Mental Health Connection - All About Schizophrenia
Your Mental Health Connection - New Mental Health Crisis and Access Center
#Tools4Resilience
#Tools4Resilience is a virtual education series of one-hour presentations on a variety of topics intended to help people build their resilience & learn strategies for self-care.
Disorder Fact Sheets
ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)
Co-Occurring Disorders (mental illness with substance use)
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Special Initiatives
Mental Health First Aid
An internationally recognized course which teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental health and substance use challenges in others.
Co-Occurring Disorders Conference
Planning is underway for our 26th Annual Co-Occurring Disorders Conference.
Art of Recovery Show
Demonstrating that NO MATTER WHAT the challenge, we are resilient people who are all in this journey together.
PhotoVoice Project
PhotoVoice believes everybody should have the opportunity to represent themselves and tell their own story.
- NLCMHA Services
- Crisis Services
- FAST Mobile Crisis Services for Children and Families
- Co-occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Services
- CHAT Program (Connected Health Assistance Team)
- OBRA Assessment & Treatment
- Psychiatric Services
- Autism Services
- Under The Jacket: Seeing The Person Inside, Not Our Perceptions
- Multi-Family Psychoeducation Groups
- Peer Support Specialists
- Customer Services
- Questions and Complaints
- Independent Facilitators
- Patient Portal
- Person Centered Planning
- Provider Directory
- Self-Direction
Handouts
Northern Lakes Community Mental Health Authority: Who We Are
General Mental Health Topics
Click on the links below for more information on each topic.
- The ARC Michigan: Consumer and Family Guide
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Support Guides
- Accessing Mental Health Services
- Advance Directives
- Anti-Stigma: Do you know the facts?
- Coping with a Diagnosis
- Famous People Who Have Had A Mental Illness
- Good Mental Health
- Grief / Bereavement
- Start The Day Great – Positive Self-Statements
- Stress Care = Self Care
- Suicide Fact Sheet
- Suicide Prevention Lifeline (external website – new window)
- Terms & Acronyms
- Terms and Acronyms related to Co-Occurring Disorders
- Violence in Schools
- Violence in Workplace
- 20 Stress Reducers
- Person Centered Planning
- Guide to Healthy Sleep
- Grounding – to detach from emotional pain
- Nurturing Your Well-Being at the Holidays