In partnership with local organizations, including Washtenaw County Community Mental Health, 5HF launched a One Big Thing initiative to improve mental health and well-being, and decrease substance use and mental health crises, within local communities.

Millage-funded staff at Avalon Housing provide case management, crisis intervention, peer recovery support, in-home primary care, and community building activities for residents across Avalon’s 25 housing properties and through an on-site clinic at Packard Health.

The Center for Health and Research Transformation educates the community about millage-funded services, ensures that residents understand what millage dollars are supporting, and provides backbone support for a number of millage-funded initiatives.

With support from millage funds, CLR Academy offers a free summer program to K-8 youth in underserved communities. With activities ranging from soccer and basketball, to yoga, reading, art, and journaling, CLR builds on the natural leadership skills of its participants.

At Washtenaw County Children's Services, the millage provided funding for a newly embedded staff member: a mental health professional. This new millage-funded case worker helps youth and their families connect with much-needed community resources.

Through a millage-funded partnership, the Corner Health Center now offers psychiatric services in-house via two Washtenaw County Community Mental Health-affiliated providers. This partnership provides in-house treatment for youth and young adults.

Through a millage-funded partnership, the Hope Clinic now offers an additional eight hours of psychiatric services per week via two Washtenaw County Community Mental Health-affiliated providers. This allows Hope Clinic to see between five and 16 additional individuals per week.

In 2023, the millage continued to fund Issue Media Group's Voices of Youth program. Voices of Youth is a series that strives to shed light on local issues that are important to Washtenaw County’s youth, from their own perspective.

The millage funded an expansion of Michigan Ability Partners’ Permanent Supportive Housing program, which provides permanent housing and social services to low-income and chronically houseless individuals. The millage also funds two housing support coordinators at MAP.

The MJRF Mental Health Champions program is a pilot program aimed at supporting Skyline High School student-athletes’ social and emotional mental health. The program engages youth athletes through trusted adults, specifically coaches, trainers and other professionals within the athletic department.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Washtenaw County has used millage funds to conduct outreach efforts in underserved areas of Washtenaw County, to destigmatize mental health concerns, and to publish and disseminate a local mental health resource guide, “Taking Care.”

With millage funds, Washtenaw County Community Mental Health works with Washtenaw County’s Office of Community Economic Development to provide emergency assistance for things like housing, utility bills, and healthcare.

Ozone House uses millage funds to operate its transitional living program, which provides housing, case management, therapy, and more to 17-24 year olds. Millage-funded youth specialists and case managers work with youth-in-residence and unhoused young adults to secure housing.

Packard Health works closely with Washtenaw County Community Mental Health to coordinate the care of clients. Packard clients now receive mental health care services on-site, along with medical care and social service connections, to support their health.

The millage partners with the Washtenaw County Public Defender and Prosecuting Attorney on the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion and Deflection (LEADD) program. LEADD works to keep low-level, low-risk offenders out of the criminal justice system by addressing underlying issues.  

The Shelter Association of Washtenaw County uses millage resources to add beds dedicated to clients who need immediate temporary housing. They also refer clients in need of behavioral health services to Washtenaw County Community Mental Health.

Check and Connect offers evidence-based mentoring to students involved with the juvenile justice system, students with mental health needs, or students who frequently miss school or struggle with grades. Millage funds support full-time mentors in Ypsilanti and Lincoln.

Millage matching dollars enabled WISD schools to receive a grant from the state of Michigan to hire mental health professionals. Four behavioral health professionals now support WISD students, working to destigmatize mental health and reach kids early before issues escalate.

The Washtenaw County Health Department uses millage funds to design a campaign to address community concerns around youth mental health and reducing stigma. The #WishYouKnew Washtenaw campaign aims to spark honest and supportive conversations about mental health between youth and adults.

Washtenaw County Community Mental Health partners with the Sheriff’s Office on a variety of reentry, diversion, deflection, and police service programs to help reduce the overrepresentation of people with behavioral health concerns in the criminal legal system.

Washtenaw County Community Mental Health staffs the Trial Court with a Trauma Therapist and Day Treatment Court Client Coordinator to provide support to people in the criminal legal system with behavioral health concerns.

The Washtenaw Health Project (WHP) works to expand access to health care by helping people sign up for health insurance. WHP navigators understand the Washtenaw County Community Mental Health system and connect clients to behavioral health services.

Millage funding supports the Ypsilanti Housing Commission’s Family Empowerment Program and their New Parkridge community in Ypsilanti. In New Parkridge, millage funding helped YHC secure housing vouchers and hire staff for case management and wraparound services.

With $250,000 in millage funding, kNEWjoy is partnering with Packard Health, Corner Health Center, and other local organizations to launch a program designed to increase the mental health of, and resources and social supports available to, Black adolescent boys in the community.