Affiliations

Michigan Department of Health & Human Services 

The Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS) will protect, preserve, and promote the health and safety of the people of Michigan with particular attention to providing for the needs of vulnerable and under-served populations.­ MDHHS is one of the largest of the executive branch departments. MDHHS is responsible for health policy and management of the state’s health, mental health, and substance use care systems.

Community Mental Health Association of Michigan

The Community Mental Health Association of Michigan (CMHA) is the state association representing the state’s public Community Mental Health (CMH) centers, the public Prepaid Inpatient Health Plans (PIHP) public health plans formed and governed by the CMH centers) and the providers within the CMH and PIHP provider networks.

CMHA Mission:  The Community Mental Health Association of Michigan supports its membership by informing, educating, and advocating for mental health, emotional disturbance, intellectual and developmental disability, and substance use disorder services by strengthening collaboration with persons served, community, partners, and government.

National Council for Behavioral Health­

The National Council for Behavioral Health (National Council) is the unifying voice of America’s community mental health and substance use treatment organizations. Together with their 2,000 + member organizations employing 750,000 staff, we serve our nation’s most vulnerable citizens — more than 8 million adults and children living with mental illnesses and addiction disorders. We are committed to ensuring all Americans have access to comprehensive, high-quality care that affords every opportunity for recovery and full participation in community life.

Health Care Compliance Association

The Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) serves compliance professionals throughout the healthcare field. Our members include compliance officers and staff from a wide range of organizations, including hospitals, research facilities, clinics and technology service providers. HCCA is a member-based, non-profit organization.

Michigan Health Improvement Alliance, Inc.­

The Michigan Health Improvement Alliance, Inc.,or MiHIA (ma-high-ah), is a diverse group of stakeholders collaborating together as a non-profit organization to improve health and health delivery in central Michigan. This formal community collaboration is designated to build a health care system where consumers, providers and payers make decisions based on the value and quality of care.

Our unique and collaborative approach allows stakeholders to achieve far more together to improve health than any of us can do alone!

First Choice­

First Choice of Saginaw is a legal charitable, tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Persons who receive gift cards from First Choice of Saginaw are identified by their need by the Saginaw County CMH Authority. First Choice of Saginaw was initiated by SCCMHA in 2005 to meet this need. The two organizations have a cooperative agreement based on their mutual missions.

Alignment Saginaw

In 1996 the Saginaw County Human Services Collaborative Body (SCHSCB) was established to act as the planning and decision making body to coordinate human services in Saginaw County.­ The mission of the SCHSCB was to work toward a collaborative service delivery system, which fostered strong, safe families and communities and was cost effective. In 2009 the collaboration in Saginaw County evolved to include additional critical community dimensions and the related community leadership in a wider view of the community and its needs.­­ An “enhanced community collaborative” is a national trend that is being recognized across the country.­ To enhance the dynamics of a community collaborative requires data collection and management that establishes benchmarks and measurable indicators of change to help guide progress and planning for our community.­ A small group of community leaders had already identified the need to expand the focus of the SCHSCB, and referred to themselves as Alignment Saginaw.­ After much deliberation, it was decided that it would be necessary to merge SCHSCB with Alignment Saginaw.­ The purpose of Alignment Saginaw is to serve as the community collaborative for Saginaw County to improve the capacity for work by Alignment Saginaw members.­ To this end the mission of Alignment Saginaw is to prepare and mobilize around opportunities that impact key areas affecting Saginaw County’s quality of life.­ It was also decided and approved by the Alignment Saginaw body that the Saginaw Community Foundation would be the fiduciary to manage the operations of the group and to identify and oversee the leadership behind the program.

NAMI Michigan

NAMI Michigan is the state chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.­ NAMI Michigan and its affiliates are dedicated to the improvement of the quality of life for persons, families and others, who are affected by mental illness, including children with serious emotional disorders, through support, education, advocacy and research.

Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

Since 1863, the Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce has been a leading advocate and champion for business. We are a not-for-profit, growing coalition of hundreds of businesses from the Great Lakes Bay Region and beyond.­ A catalyst for change, the Chamber builds strong partnerships by focusing its members and resources on local, regional and statewide priorities that make our community a great place to live, work, learn and play.

Health Resources and Services Administration

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care by­strengthening the health care workforce, building healthy communities and achieving health equity. ­HRSA’s programs provide health care to people who are geographically isolated, economically or medically vulnerable.

This includes people living with HIV/AIDS, pregnant women, mothers, and their families and those in need of high quality primary health care. ­HRSA also supports the training of health professionals, the distribution of providers to areas where they are needed most and improvements in health care delivery.

HRSA oversees organ, bone marrow and cord blood donation. It compensates individuals harmed by vaccination, and maintains databases that protect against health care malpractice, waste, fraud and abuse.

United Way of Saginaw County

United Way of Saginaw County's vision is to create a safe nurturing community where all families can thrive. Driven by the vision, United Way focuses on creating change in the community through the areas of health, education and financial stability. By promoting giving, advocating and volunteering - the nonprofit is able to create impact by connecting community resources and volunteers. For more information or to find out how you can help United Way of Saginaw County, please call (989) 755-0505.

United Way is a volunteer-directed nonprofit organization operated by trained staff that promotes volunteerism, raises funds to address important health and human service issues, and ensures the money donated is used in the most efficient and effective manner possible. United Way volunteers research the needs of our community, informs the community of those needs, and makes sure United Way dollars are distributed to programs that best address those issues.

BWell Saginaw

BWell is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting mental health and wellness in the Saginaw community. Founded in 2015, BWell provides a wide range of services and resources to help individuals and families in the area access mental health support and overcome the stigma often associated with mental illness.

Through its partnership with SCCMHA, BWell offers a variety of programs and services help individuals and families in the community. These include support groups, mental health education and training, and wellness activities such as yoga and mindfulness. BWell also provides resources and referrals for individuals seeking mental health services and works to connect individuals with SCCMHA and other local providers.

Overall BWell's affiliation with SCCMHA has helped promote mental health and wellness in the Saginaw community by working together to provide comprehensive mental health services and support. BWell and SCCMHA are helping break down the barriers to care and ensure that individuals and families have the resources they need to live healthy, fulfilling lives.

Saginaw Hoarding Task Force

The Saginaw County Hoarding Task Force is a partnership of local public and private agencies whose purpose is to collaboratively seek to raise public awareness of hoarding and to preserve safe and appropriate housing by development and utilization of tools, best practices and early intervention strategies, by: 1) working with individuals to help achieve goals, mitigate the level of consequences of hoarding, and re-establishing home environmental quality and safety; 2) focusing on harm reduction principles; 3) recognizing that even if harmful behavior cannot be completely changed, modest behavioral change is beneficial, and meaningful and significant improvements can be made in quality of life; and 4) reducing the severity, impact and/or and harm for any individual citizen, families, neighborhoods, and the community, as well as the lead responding organizations

Great Start Collaborative

The Great Start Collaboratives (GSC) are the early childhood systems building bodies in the state of Michigan.  The GSCs are locally driven based on the needs and data of their community, set forth in their Strategic Plans and through family voice and engagement.  20% of the GSC membership must consist of parents of young children, particularly those who are engaged in the mixed delivery system.  At the table are organizations that serve children and families prenatal to age 8 including: businesses, philanthropy, faith-based community, Health and Human Services, Community Mental health, private healthcare including mental health, juvenile and/family court, elementary education staff, preschool including Head Start and GSRP, childcare providers, elected officials, community specific non-profits, etc.

The Purposes of the GSCs are:

• Work to understand the communities’ strengths and challenges within their local early childhood system, and create a strategic plan.
• Work together with the PC’s to build and reform the local early childhood system to achieve better outcomes for young children and their families.
• Build the local system that can address the implementation of recommendations provided in the report, “Great Start, Great Investment, Great Future”.
• Work in local communities to ensure that the entire state is making significant progress toward the four early childhood outcomes.
• Consists of community leaders and includes parents of young children.