on this meeting to order. Mr. Glenn, could you please call the roll?
Yes, thank you. Mr. Chair. Ms, mantuzzi, ms, Brown. MS, Bullock is excused. Okay. Dr Carter is present, present, virtually. Dr Carter's here, Miss Garza dewars is excused. Mr. Glenn is here. Mr. Kinlott is excused. Mr. McNamara here, Mr. Parker here, Mr. Phillips here, Ms Ruth present, and Dr tag is joining us virtually. Are you there? Dr tag. Dr tag, we have a quorum. Mr. Chair, thank you. Mr. Glenn, I'm not sure if you heard this is Angela Bullock virtually as well. Miss Bullock is joining us virtually. Thank you.
Thank you. Board Member Bullock. Okay, next is approval of the Jenna, can I get a motion to approve the agenda? So moved by a motion I have support. You can work that out, right? Lillian, okay,
I'm sorry, Mr.
Motion by Brown. Support by Phillips,
thank you. Thank you. Um,
hearing no discussion on the agenda. All in favor. Aye, opposed. AB, stained. Motion passes. Next item is a moment of silence. We have a moment of silence. I Yes.
Thank you. Next is the approval of the board of minutes. Can I get a motion to approve the board of minutes?
So move support Brown
and Ruth, hearing any discussion on the minutes? Hearing, no discussion. All in favor. Aye, opposed motion. Is There Any abstentions? Okay? We move down, receiving file. We have approved Finance Committee, many minutes on file, and we'll we'll have a report later on by them. And we don't do the reports actually now, do we,
Mr. Chair, the reports will come later in the agenda under the board committee reports.
Thank you very much. Okay, so And here, we don't do votes to receive and file. Do we Okay? Announcements, board, network announcements,
good afternoon. Tiffany Devin, Director of Communications, a couple of exciting things happening yesterday, we were at the Waccamaw my shoes rally. There were about 1500 people there. Dwihn had a huge presence, as both of our emcees were people that received services from us, as well as there was a huge effort to promote voting. And also wanted to let you know that you still have time to sign up to come to the NAMI walk this Saturday. It's at U of D mercy. Dean Wynn has a team of over 70 people. We'd love to get it to 100 it's supposed to be great weather. I did call the weatherman and I ordered that so hopefully you can show up for that on the same day. On Saturday, we have a men's conference that the member engagement department is putting together, and we have some wonderful speakers. That's at the Considine center, that's also happening, that's in the mobile app, and also next Tuesday, we have a community wide Narcan training all day long at the WC three down river campus and Taylor, where Channel Four has partnered with us, along with mariners in and Masco, and we are hoping for a huge turnout where we're going to be able to train people on Narcan all day long. Begins 11 to six, and that's all I have. Great.
Thank you, Mr. Chair, Mr. Parker, whatever. Just want to recognize
you know, you send an email out with those announcements. There are, I like that to have it in the email so I can refer back to it. So hope you could be able to continue to do that. Thank you. You're welcome.
All right, thank you.
Next is a board member announcements. Does the board have any announcements it wants to make? We're moving on. Dean Marie construction presentation. Blackwell,
if I can invite our members from de Maria construction, as well as the dwinn constituents, voice and member engagement team, as well as some of our board members, to the front of the room de Maria construction, I can invite Joe de Maria to the to the podium here, de Maria construction, over the last couple years, has supported dwihn, our member engagement team, and Margaret keys. Howard, if you want to invite just talk a little bit about member engagement and some of the things over the last couple years that we have been able to do with the funds that de Maria construction has been able to afford our member engagement team. Engagement
Team. I would like to thank the de Maria construction company for not only the generosity of your multiple years of donations, but also the meaningful work that it has done. I can tell you all of the educational opportunities, as far as travel conferences, workshops, programs, including a portion of our men's conference coming up on next week, other activities, including our dreams come true, many grants, where we give many grants to individuals who have excelled and wanted to expand the opportunities in various areas. And it's been really, it's been really a pleasure to have the de Maria team working with us as we can continue to grow. And as the manager, I could not do it without our CV Naz, which is my Nisha Calhoun, who works directly with the individuals, but I could not say it better than our own members, Dylan price and Shelly Nelson, I'd like to give them just a few minutes to tell you how meaningful your donation is. Dylan,
yeah, thank you very much. Your donation really helps set the stage for people discovering their potential, rediscovering the joys of life, and enriching the minds of people who really are on the ground floor, helping those we serve. Thank you.
Yes, good morning. We really want to thank you so much for your contribution. As far as she's our members, they will really love this. This helps them. As Margaret was saying, as far as the reaching for the stars, where they're beginning, like $1 to a $500 grant for their goals that they wanted, like we have somebody that's put in for they wanted to be a barber. We had another one for our supplies. We also want to thank you because we do trainings with peers where we could come back, get knowledgeable and share what's going on in the peer world. And again, we thank you so much, and we appreciate you
again for your multiple years of service and donations. We cannot say thank you enough. Please look forward to seeing one of the articles about how the dollars were used in our person's point of view newsletter that was just issued yesterday. I'm sure you get a copy of it, but it is featured in the newsletter as well. Thank you so much. Thank
you. Good afternoon board. Yeah. Thanks so much for those kind words. We're happy to be a part of this. Our third year in a role. We've been able to raise 15,000 each year, and it means a lot to us. So our company started in Detroit. We've been in Detroit for 56 years. I was born in Detroit, so really means a lot of us. Everything you do for this community really makes a difference. I can tell you firsthand, and we look forward to long term relationships, not just 123, years. So thank you. Thank you for the kind words. And I won't keep much of your time, but I really appreciate being part of this. Dean Maria is a big part of it. Thank you.
If I could ask the Dean Maria team, our CV members and the board, just to join at the upfront for a quick photo op, I know Tiffany's gonna take a quick and Marlin gonna take a quick picture here, obviously, for those of you who don't know, Dean Maria was the construction team, even though they've been supporting our CV members for quite a few years, they actually are the construction team that actually helped build this building that we're all Standing in. So major thanks for that. But the $15,000 that have gone to help support the people that we serve has been tremendous. So thank you very much.
I'm six feet.
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Parker,
Can you see? Nevermind you.
Okay,
again. Thank you all so much.
You Ah,
thank you. On behalf of the Board D Maria, it's wonderful that you've done this. We're very, very thankful to have you as partner with us. Okay, we're going on the board community reports the first of the board chair report. I'm going to ask the board chair, since she's still here, I think. Dr tag, are you up there listening to us?
Oh. Dr tag, yeah, Mr. Chair, we did not see dr tag joining us as of yet.
Okay, she was going to give this wonderful speech about how great I was, but I'll have to do it for her.
So, Mr. Chair, oh yes, Miss Ben Tuesday. Just wanted to miss Ben Tuesday is on the line too.
Thank you. Yeah, thank you. All I know about is the Community Mental Health Association of Michigan, which is in October, and I believe, because they've already settled out into who's going to that the macular conference say they're still talking about some of that. I'm not the chair, so I'm not going to pretend to go any further and stall this meeting. So we're going to move on to the Executive Committee, which I guess the chair is, oversees that we do have a board study session scheduled for October that has to be moved to November, and I do need an action item to move that. I guess we have a few events next month that is causing this to be moved. Lillian, could you mention what those events are?
Yes, sir, Mr. Chair. So during the month of October, we have the CMHA conference going on. We also have the metro region meeting going on, and then we have the CEO search interviews that are taking place. So the calendar is pretty full for the month of October.
So at this time, the chair is asking for a motion. Mr. Chair, who here we said it. Thank
you. I like to move that. We move our study session to November.
Support.
Got a motion. I've got support. And is there any discussion? Hearing? No discussion. All in favor. Aye, opposed. Abstain. Thank you. Next item is the metro region meeting, which is dwinn hosts on october 24 just make sure that you know that it's coming up.
Mr. Chair, if I may, this meeting will be virtual, and it will be held from 6pm to 8pm and the link will be sent out probably by the end of the week.
Next item is the Finance Committee. Does the Finance Committee have a report?
Yes, Mr. Chair, thank you. Finance Committee did meet on Wednesday, September the fourth. Dwind received approximately 2 million on July 31 in opioid settlement funds. The second appraisal on the Woodward property came in approximately $2 million higher, allowing us to reduce our hail cash collateral requirements to the bank, dwihn will be providing a 50% match for Wayne County police departments participating in behavioral health specialists, which is primarily a jail diversion program for up to $4 million over a two year, two year period. And then the Finance Committee approved to request a vote of this board, the full Board allowing a draw of $1.3 million to support cost overruns for the 707 building that were due to MDHHS changes in the configuration of the care center. The funds will come from the $60 million state of Michigan integrated care center grant that was originally slated for seven mile for the seven mile project, and please note that the wind has received written confirmation from MDHHS that they are amenable to such charges. Finally, the liquidity does remain strong and cash flow is sufficient to support operations, and we had four board actions moved to today's meeting that would conclude my finance report, Mr. Chair,
thank you. You. You brought up a great report I forgot have to submit so the $1.7 million the Finance Board asked the full Board to approve that? Well, there
was yes, there was a request. It came to the Finance Committee, but we wanted to make sure that everyone's aware, and they wanted to reflect the record that everyone basically, so no one has amnesia when it comes to the final project and the $60 million project, just in case there's a need for those funds. So essentially, it's just so that no one says, you know, we didn't know. I don't remember. It's on record so we can go back to it. That's essentially what it is. But the the project, the $60 million that came from the state grant for the seven mile project is where the funds would come from. And essentially they're trying, of course, to do the project, and may, you know, schedule it to not need those funds. However, if something comes up and they need the funds, then we know that the overruns came from the result of the 707 building. Okay,
so there's no vote needed. We just, they just want to make sure that the whole board, the finance committee, everybody, make sure that you guys know that we just borrowed $1.7 million from a future project,
1.3 1.3 and it's not borrowed. It's not borrowed, true, it's not borrowed. Okay, that's not
what I said. Okay,
so basically, you're, you're, you're using now and you might need it later, okay, that's what it is. It's like the candy now and later. But you may need it later. You don't need it later now. Okay, need it now.
Does everybody understand that? All right, good job.
So do you want to vote now? I
don't think we need to vote on that. Yes,
we do our Finance Chair, I mean, our CFO is requesting a vote. Can you?
Can you make the vote? What's the vote say?
We would like to I will make the motion. My motion is to approve to allow the 1.3 millions of the $60 million grant that was provided by the state of Michigan for the seven mile project to be allocated to to support the overruns of the 707 building support.
Okay, we've got a motion. We've got support. Is there any discussion?
Only question I have is funds to support 707 are we going to have sufficient funds to complete the seven miles
that I believe that is what the budget, the construction budget is, should be amended to support now, If there's something unforeseen that occurs, then we would have to fund that 1.3 million Yes. So essentially, is what my thought process is on, that is the overruns already occur. It has to be funded. It's already been pretty much funded. So you either take the grant now, use the grant money now, or you use it later. We're lowering
the budget on seven on seven, mile to 58.7,
that's the target. I'm assuming. Build it.
She stated it very well. The 1.3 is not coming from the construction cost, though. It's coming from some of the equipment cost related to the project. We have one opportunity to do this, because the construction of this building ended in fiscal 24 which we're still in. So that draw needs to take place now, opposed to later, when the RFP goes out on seven mile and we get it back and, you know, we may need the funds, we may not whatever, but it's a one time opportunity that we can take advantage of right now. Does
the RFP speak to what the budget is for the project?
I don't think that the RFP speaks specifically. I think they're asking for what the company projects it will. Yeah.
Good afternoon. Mike masky, Vice President facilities, the semi RFP does not dictate specific budget numbers just because the budget encompasses other things, just besides construction for the facility.
So Mike was gracious enough to go and look at some other line items so that we can support some of the 707 overruns from this, from the 60 million. And I do want to note that the language within the appropriation it's, yeah, the language within, you know, I will, I want, I wanted to be an attorney one one day. So I always tease our attorneys. But the appropriation language is, is not specific to seven mile. So that's why ndch acknowledges that we can utilize the funding from the 60 million to cover this particular Integrated Care Center. Mr. Chair,
that's good. Just
my understanding is that we already approved that overrun of 1.3 and it was going to come out of our reserve funds. Yep. So this is the opportunity for us to use the other funds, and if, in fact, it comes in over, all we'd be doing is going back and taking our reserve funds that we already have done. So Right? It's a good situation that we won't have to use our reserve funds, but if we have to, we can just go back and do the same thing we already approved. That's the
now and later, right? If we don't do it now, then we can't do it later, because the fiscal year has ended its close, and to be able to draw on a grant in fiscal 25 for fiscal 24 expenses is not really allowed. So.
So in essence, are we approving just the use of the $1.3 million from the $60 million grant, or are we approving both the use of the $1.3 million from the grant and approving an amendment to the proposed budget from $60 million to 58.7
I mean, I guess you're I guess, I guess so. That's probably not a bad
No. I that that wasn't in the I just want to say, unless you want to amend it, that was not in the thing, but
that's what you're doing. If you're taking money, taking the money hand, and putting it into that right? You're reducing this hand, right, and putting it over so, right? But,
I mean, you want that specifically stated, We can't, because that was not in the original motion.
This is to the board's pleasure. I just, I just proposed it that way so that it's clear, you know, for the record, and if somebody looks at it a year from now, two years from now, let's see.
So amend your motion, so
we can amend the motion. Amend the motion to reduce the seven mile project budget from 60 million to 58.7
and whoever supported the amendment, are they okay with that?
Yes, I support
just question on that. We don't know what the contractors are going to come in. And we all know that contracting now is a lot more expensive than it has been. I don't want us to be limited to the 58.7 because when it comes in higher, it just means we might have to use some reserve funds if we decide to go forward. We hope that it's going to come within that, but we won't really know until the bids come in. It's
been what we don't have, pardon it's been what we don't have. If we have to go to the we've got 20, $50
million in reserve funds. So we do have no but it's a I'm just I'm just saying I don't want us to be if it comes in higher than that, obviously we can make a decision not to move forward, but we may have to look at some other funding. And I don't want us to be restricted to just 58.7 or 57 anyway. I'm not going to oppose it, but we need to be conscious of that. We don't know what it's going to cost yet.
Okay.
If I may. I think Mr. Phillips was speaking of the actual grant itself, not necessarily the construction of the project. I think he was referring to the actual grant allocation of 60 million.
Yes, yeah, okay. I want a problem with that.
Any other questions?
Do you make a good over here?
Okay, we've got a motion by Brown and supported by Ruth. We've had discussion. Anybody any further discussion before we call for a vote. No hearing, no further discussion. All in favor, aye, opposed, abstained. Motion passes. Thank you. Next is the program Compliance Committee does? Is there a report here for there is
Mr. Chair? Me? Great. Okay. So good afternoon, everybody. The program Compliance Committee met on Wednesday the 11th of September. It was a full agenda, and we received quarterly reports from the autism services department, the children's initiatives and the integrated health care area, a few highlights from the information that was shared, starting with the autism services department, the demand for those services continue to grow each quarter, and it's also important to Note that two new ABA providers have been approved and added to our network. There had the average number of members who begin services within 14 days of the ABA authorization. Effective Date is at 84% the goal was only 70% so that's another marker of how well that is moving team wellness, as we all know, launched the juvenile restorative program more than a year ago in July of 2023 and this is a Short term three to six month program that complete includes comprehensive array of services to support this population. The goal for 24 was to bring services to 70 use, and so far, at this point in 2024 that has been exceeded by 102 referrals, 91 intake assessments, and 87 use were actively enrolled in the program, another indication of need being met. And as an update to the 707 crisis center that we've just been speaking about. As we all know, they've just had three complete months of activity, and the demand continues to grow. In June, there were 131 presentations of adults, and that led to 104 admissions, as compared to August, where we had 168 presentations leading to 129 admissions. The demographics, some of that data is now available. The majority of the eventual patients are African American, 77% between the ages of 25, and 34 majority male with regards to the children, defined as ages between five and 17, there too we see an increased Use, starting with seven presentations and two admissions in June, ending with 22 presentations and 15 admissions in August. The last area, as requested during a prior finance committee, a presentation was provided on the jail diversion through a mental co response expansion program, where funds would be diverted to individuals with serious mental illness and often co occurring substance abuse or developmental disability, and contact those who are in contact with the justice system from custody andor jail. And we would then provide linkages to community based treatment and support services. We currently have partnerships with DPD, the Inkster police, gross points, Harper Woods and Southgate Department of Public Safety. Further details I am going to look to miss Andrea Smith to talk about briefly,
if not, I'm sorry. There's a bit of an echo. I'm sorry. Is it better? That is better?
Okay, yes, ma'am Andrea Smith, here, did you have a specific question, or not
specific questions? But I thought if you want to give any more details regarding the program, if not,
we're good. Okay,
I believe that, as you stated, We did speak about expanding our jail diversion efforts as required through the mental health code, we are looking to ensure that we're inclusive of all of Wayne County and not just the city of Detroit. Though, the city of Detroit is the largest. We are seeking to give opportunities to all 43 entities in the county where they can participate in an application process. And that will be determined, you know, based on their interest level, the data that they have that shows the the need for services as it relates to the population served, whether they have a mental health Nexus, substance use related disorders, and if there's a need for additional staffing and support with the behavioral health entity, which would be dwihn, and each agency would have to again submit an application. Be willing to partner with dwinn and or our provider partners? Well, there's no or you have to partner with dwind If you partner with our providers, and we would have ongoing interaction and encounters and engagement to ensure that we offer comprehensive wraparound services for persons in need of support and continue to divert from the jail system. So that's a broader overview, as mentioned by Ms Dora, the cost of dwind would not exceed $2 million per year for two years, so a total of 4 million. And the amount to each agency would be dictated by their budget and their ask as far as persons needed to staff on their end. So that's about it.
Thank you. And and just to conclude, there were no unfinished board actions, but we did consider move to full board for approval of 19 new board actions, and that, Mr. Chair who proves that report?
Okay, any questions? Alright, yeah,
I have one quick question as it relates to category. I said, mentioned that the majority of the visuals
that were 534, and 34%
they tell you what percentage of or African American, or were male, African American males? Yes, they did. I believe it was 77%
or African American, or African American, and it was 53% male, 45% female. Okay,
in that age group, though, did they say? They say, what percentage was in that age group? You mentioned the 25 to 34
they have, we may be able to get that detail.
Good afternoon. Graceful, VP of crisis services. So in the age ranges of 25 to 34 is 27% overall, but it's not broken out into the ages of specifically African American males. So the way that was demon out, yes. So 27% or between the ages of 25 and their categories are you using in that? As it relates to age Sure? So, 18 to 2425 to 3435 to 4445 to 5455 to 64 and 65 and
above, right? So, six categories, okay, slightly higher than that, in that, okay, thank you. Not, not a great not. Very higher, but just slightly higher. If they were all even, it would be somewhere around what 16, 18%
truthfully, all of the categories were fairly evenly split. 18 to 24 was 20% 25 to 3427 35 to 44 is 1545. To 54 is 1255. To 64 is 17, and then only 9% were 65 and older. So all fairly evenly split. Thank you.
Any additional questions? Hearing none. We're going to move on to recipient rights. And is this, thank you,
Mr. Chair. During the month of September, there was no recipient rights Advisory Committee meeting, so there's no report, but at this time, the next meeting will be held on November 4. Thank you.
Next is a substance use disorder oversight policy board that's generally Mr. Adams, are you out there?
Tom Adams, is here.
All right,
how you doing?
I'm doing great. Get a report for us
sure the board to the board, we did not have a Sud meeting in September because we had no action items to put forth, but we are scheduled to have our next Sud meeting on the third Tuesday of next month.
Great. You're doing a great job, too. Thank you. Thank
you, sir, and I appreciate Yeah.
Next item is a sports self assessment policy. This is a return item, and this item comes back to us for a vote. Who can speak on this? I can Mr. Chair. Thank you. Oh yeah, your chair of policy group.
Thank you. Okay,
so recently, previously, we had recommended to the board at a meeting held in June that we would require two thirds of the board members needed to respond to the board self assessment to be considered valid and closed for the fiscal year. That recommendation was presented to the full board and approved at the annual meeting in July. The presented before the board today for approval is a recommendation from the Committee on updated language that would be included in the board self assessment policy number 2016, 11, which states that at least two thirds of board members must complete the board self assessment in order for the evaluation to be deemed valid And close for the current fiscal year in the event that two thirds of the board members do not complete the self assessment, then a second request must be made in order to require board members to complete the self assessment. If necessary, a third request must be made in order to require board members to complete the self assessment. This item was on the agenda as an action item.
Okay, does anybody have a question? Yes. Parker,
just clarity when you do the second and third. Is it just for the people that did not submit to self assessment, or would everybody be included in the second and third requests? I would hope it'll only be the ones that did not complete this, so we don't have to do three of them. But I'm not clear, Mr.
Chair, may I respond? Typically, the self assessment is sent to the full board, and then those that do not respond will get a second email from human resources. So I'll defer to Mr. Connelly to make sure that I'm explaining his process correctly. The Self Assessment only gives you one time to respond to it, so that you don't have duplicative responses. So it would be sent to Jessica's that didn't
respond. I just wanted to be clear on that. Thank you.
Any other questions, I don't believe we got a motion on this. Mr. Phillips, could you make the motion as the chair of the policy group,
I am making the motion to update the language as relates to the board self assessment based off of the language that I read to you guys earlier. Or support, yeah?
Support over there. I think it was Mr. Park Yeah. Parker, all right, I've got a motion by Phillips, supported by Parker, hearing no further comments. All in favor.
Aye Opposed.
Abstain. Motion passes. Thank you. We now move into the unfinished business, and we have four items here see if we could have I just assume, yeah, I'd like to bundle these things. And if I could have
Mr. Chair, yes, I You want me to go? Yes, go, bundle. Go, where um? Board action 2318 revision two. Board action 2325 revision two. Board action 2330 revised and board action 2525 all came from the finance committee. I would like to move a motion for approval
through the Chair, if I may, if we can keep unfinished business and new business separate, we she didn't go into
new business. 25
okay, well, under unfinished business, board action, 2318 revision 223, 25 revision two and 2330 revise Mr. Chair, I would like to move a motion to approve based on discussions held in the finance committee. Okay,
can I get a support? Okay, that's finance. Finance, minus one should come up and real quickly we'll go through them and approve them,
Looking for very short answers, real quick, global solutions. I
well, then get ready. Social social media get ready. PAA, global solutions. I
thank you. The amount of $124,888 with the total contract not to exceed 374,
664,
thank you and the social media management that's a reestablishment of westcon as our broker for another two another year. Okay, that's all I need. Baa Baa. That's a reestablishing as PAA for another year. That
is correct. Mr. Chair, I'm sorry, that is correct. Mr. Chair, Public Affairs associates, it's a modification of board action 23, dash 30. It's a two year extension of our existing contract. The amount stays the same at $100,000
okay? And does anybody have any questions on those that we've already dealt with? I
have a question Council as relates to how the board, I mean, how this action has been moved. If you are voting yes on two and no on one, do we have to separate them all, or do I just have to indicate the one I'm voting no
through the chair? You would have to tell us that if you're gonna, if you're going to abstain or vote no, you have to, we can do the voice vote, but at the end the F say, I'm not no on this, I abstain on this. Okay? And that's commonly done. All right.
Thank you.
All right. So I have any other questions on these three hearing? No, all in favor. Aye, opposed.
I oppose board action 2318,
and abstained. Motions pass. Thank you. We didn't do the Allen Law Group. Can I get a motion for the Law Group, 4322 39 Move approval for Glenn Ellen Law Group, I believe this is an extension, again, through
the Chair, if I may. Yes, that's correct. It's a one year extension. It'll bring this contract to a total of four years for a total amount of $845,000 the amount before you is $260,000 roughly 50 to $60,000 of that is to cover litigation fees that will not that are not contemplated in our monthly flat rate fee. Some of those fees will have, we will have incurred during this fiscal year, and others will receive the bill during the 2425 fiscal year.
So are we having an increase in litigation or, I mean, because my understanding what type of what type of increase overall, is it from the prior fiscal year
through the Chair, if I may. It's a $50,000 increase for this particular fiscal year and increase in litigation to I wouldn't say that. However, there was litigation that we there was action that we had to take, and that's pretty much the most I can say on the record, but there was an action that we had to take in which we actually incurred litigation costs. Typically, if we are being sued, we would go to our insurance company to provide a defense. But there are also other matters that will fall under that litigation fee, including, for instance, we have employees that have been deposed that's not covered under our flat rate fee, any type of preparation and document review for the same and then there have also been other actions in which we've been ordered to do certain things and had to appear in court that would not be covered under our litigation, under our flat rate fee, either. That falls under litigation. Also, from time to time, there are matters that end up in arbitration that may have started off as a grievance that would also fall under a litigation fee. So that being said, it's not as if we have had a massive increase in litigation, but there are litigation costs that we incur from year to year.
So you've had an increase in items outside of the flat rate. And what exactly is the what has been the flat rate in the past? And what does that cover?
Sure, so the current flat rate is 16, 575, plus 5% give me a second, I'll do the actual math on that. But it covers a myriad of things. Pretty much anything outside of litigation falls under that flat rate fee. So as long as we're not going to court, doing anything related to arbitrate, arbitration or depositions, it's it's covered. So for, for instance, our seven mile facility, any contracts related to that, our acquisition of the Catholic Charities, building any negotiations related to that, we have a large amount of FOIA requests that come in, in which we may be reviewing hundreds and even maybe even 1000s of pages of documents prior to producing them, any types of subpoenas that we refer over, basically anything that is not litigation or quasi litigation, if you will, is covered under that flat rate fee, including even the current CEO process and CEO search process and CEO negotiations.
Yeah, that's 16 seven five you referred to as the monthly fee. Am
I correct? 16 575, plus 5% that is a flat rate monthly fee. Okay.
Any other questions? I have a motion by Parker, supported by, I'm sorry, who did that? Or Okay, do we need a supporter yet?
Mr. Chair, if I may, Mr. Parker made the motion. It was supported by Mr. Galant, 2239
Thank you. Got to write it down, all right. So is there any further discussion before I call for the vote, all in favor of this item? Aye, opposed motion. Excuse me. Abstentions. Motion passes. Thank you. Next items is new business, okay, so what I'd like to do is take the program compliance as a bundle, line up whoever's got to speak on any of these, and go through each one and just say, multicultural integration providers real quickly. What is that about? So and they'll by the time we get to the end of the same then we'll have one vote instead of 25 you were very busy. So before we start, I'd like to get a motion by the program compliance Vice Chair Carter to do all of these, a through, Q, s and t do I have to No. If you'd say, do business a through Q. Mr. Chair, you're fine. Yes. Mr. Chair, if I may,
you can take the motion for all of them and then take presentations or questions or questions on all of them, even if they didn't come from the same committee, just it's their prerogative. But yeah,
the reason I pull in finance up because it's kind of what we do as a budget, and this is the day we're doing the point the finance. Thank you. Okay, Chair.
I'm wondering, just for a time sake, since we have so many of them, if any board members had any questions on anyone, then they can ask that, rather than them all coming up and repeating information. It's up to you, but I'm just trying to save a little time.
I'll do it that way. But
first so my motion, I'll please my motion is under new business to bundle all of the board actions associated with program compliance, which includes a through Q consecutively and s and t.
Thank you. I got a spark
for clarity.
Are you moving to bundle them, or are you moving approval of those items.
Moved approval.
Move approval.
Thank you. Okay,
okay, so I don't need you to talk just yet, but you might get called up. Does anybody have any questions? Any of these multicultural integration providers, substance use disorder network, the 707 food service, the jail diversion program, the comprehensive service for behavioral health, the behavioral health home, the substance use disorder health home, The Michigan Rehabilitation Services, the d1 provider, network, system,
excuse me. Mr. Chair, stop
what?
I'm sorry. Excuse me. Mr. Chair, I did have a question about. Board, action, 25 04 25 what? 25 04707 food service, yep.
Somebody step up on food service. Thank you. Board Member
Bruce, go get them. This is, oh, this is basically for the crisis mobile, just for the crisis center. Only this for the patients. Yes. So this is for variety food service, who provides our three meals a day and snacks and drinks for our patients at the facility. Okay,
could the lowest be it this
one out for RFP? Yes. And what we did actually was we did an initial RFP and we did a short term contract, so we have been utilizing variety for since we opened to ensure that they met this food standards and what we needed and wanted for the individuals that we serve, we've been very happy with their service. We've received a lot of good feedback about their food and about the they do daily deliveries for us, and they meet meet our need. So then we put it back out for an additional RFP process after the short term contract variety rebid, and they met the standards of the RFP, so this is for the long term, three year contract with them. Thanks. Thank you.
Parker, yeah. On that same subject item, are we seeking any reimbursement from USDA or anything for the food services.
No, the food service currently goes through Medicaid as a part of the per diem costs, the daily cost of the facility.
All right, thank you. Thank you.
One more thing, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that's okay. Miss Ben Tuesday reached out. She's typed a message,
Mr. Chair, if I may miss bentonzi has her hand raised.
I'm sorry
it's no no worries. Just can you please move the agenda so I'm able to see all of that we're recommending please
on the screen,
Yes, thank you.
Business.
Okay, so I've already called off I think 11 substance use disorder health homes, the Michigan real Bill rehabilitation services, dwihn provider, network system through credentialing verification organizations, children's crisis intervention services, adult crisis intervention services, children's initiative, MDHHS grants, Children's Services, health quality initiation Initiative Program, HPs consulting, juvenile Restoration Program.
Mr. Chair,
yes,
I have a question.
Ms Ruth,
I have a question for board action 2520, the juvenile restorative program.
Good afternoon. Cassandra Phipps, Director of children's initiatives.
I'm just curious, how many participants have we had in this program thus far? Yes,
so I can go to that part of the report. We've had 87 actively enrolled.
Do you know how many we've had graduated? Like, does it? Is it a graduation? Like, they've completed the process and have transitioned out of the program.
Yes, so looking, so it is a three to six month program, so the ones that were able to complete, there were 16 that graduated from the program, and there were a few more that were referred to additional services. So they needed more mental health services, so they were referred to other programs and but yes, so the ones that did fully complete the program was 16, okay?
And then also it says the education and vocation vocational training, who's actually providing that.
So this, for this school year, they are working with Atlas for the virtual schooling. They are also working with harborwood School District, and there's an alternative school in Southgate called Asher alternative school that they're working with, and then right next door is third Metro that they're also working with as well.
So harperwood School District is the only school district that we're working with all the all the children, for the most part, are coming from that district, or that's just the district we chose.
So yeah, so they are building a partnerships. And so it really depends on the situation of the youth. And so some It depends on if they're going to be doing virtual schooling, or if they're going to be working with their home school district. If they're working if the youth is connected to a home school district, they will partner with that, with the IEP, but they were specifically building a partnership with Harper wood school district.
And then also the vocational training. Is that Harper Woods as well.
When you say vocational training, I
just want to that's what it says right here in the board action. It says skill building and pre vocational training and education support. Okay,
yeah, so the vocational training, they're actually doing that at the day treatment. So they're working on life skills. They're also helping them with building skills for, you know, employment. So they actually are, and I'll give an example, like, for instance, they have a coffee shop on site there where they're teaching them how to, you know, take orders and and and serve coffee and things like that. So they're actually doing some of that themselves.
So the vocational, the vocational training, is, it mirrors the life skills. Because I see we have life skills here,
yes, yes, it was both. It's interchangeable. Really, when you say life skills, vocational skills, it's very they're similar with the wording, yeah,
okay, I won't labor it with you. But do you mind, like sending me a follow up report? Sure. Do you mind? Okay, sure. Because I would like a breakdown as to vocational training. I do know the coffee but then I know skilled trades is in the high demand, and they're also returning citizens friendly. So I'm just curious as to, can we have a Can I just have a breakdown of that? Sure I appreciate it. Thank you.
No problem.
Thank you. Mr. Chair,
thank you. Mr.
Chair, medical billing and claims auditing services. Mr. Chair, yes, billing
and if I may, so Ms Ruth, you're requesting a report regarding a breakdown of
so I asked. She was telling me the students that were enrolled, the participants, those that graduated, their education is, and she was, she was giving me a breakdown. I'm gonna figure out. She was giving me a breakdown of who's participating in vocational training and exactly what? Because then she also we talked about the life skills of a coffee shop, which I think is really cool. That's cool. She was going to give me a breakdown of the different programs that they participating in. And she could just answer, are there going to be any future of any of the school districts? Are we just going to stay with Harper wood? She could do is that we just go, yeah, so never mind on that part. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you so medical billing and claims auditing services and the last thing would be Autism Spectrum Disorder provider network, hearing anybody that has any discussion on any of those things, knowing that I will be abstaining. Western Wayne communities in Section J, anybody else may have a abstention, Mr. Chair, let's go ahead.
Abstain from board action, 2502 2503 and board action, 2513 my affiliate with the mariners in
thank you and
Mr. Chair, I have an abstention. 2515 2517 and I believe 2518 in my relation with black family development, because of Black Family Development. Is that right?
That is correct. Okay. Do I need a new seconder for her
ish for hers?
So, Mr. Chair, if I may, so Mr. Glenn, can you give me your list again you abstain from Yes,
25 board action, 2502 2503 and 2513
the Chair, if I may. I just want for clarity. I want to confirm that you all are only abstaining from those individual providers. Correct
that we're affiliated, that I'm affiliated with next mariners in Okay, and I'm coming
through the chair. I would like to abstain from board action 2513 and 2521 as part of my relationship with Henry Ford Health. Does
anybody else have any abstentions? Well,
I have a clarity for from compliance. So if the providers are included in a provider network system. So should we all? We all be, should I be? We all be abstaining from 2513
as well. You are, excuse me to the Chair, if I may. You are only abstaining from your individual providers, so you can take the vote. Can be a part of the other providers that are included within that board action. But you are only abstaining from for in your case, Black Family Development and Mr. Glenn case, mariners in Okay.
Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Chair,
all good. Okay. We have, I have, I have a approval by Dr Carter, who has no abstentions at all. I have a second board member, Ruth, who is abstained. A couple things. Can I get support? Second, thank you.
Thank you. Miss Brown, bless
hearing no further discussion. All in favor. Aye, opposed abstentions we've noted. Thank you. This motion passes, wow, okay, next item would be BA, 2521 Vice Chair, whatever you today. Ms, brown. You are the, that's the, you're the Chair, if I may. Oh, that's the executive committee. Move approval. Uh, make a motion. Okay, move for approval. All right. Support, support, okay. Pihp, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Can somebody speak on that real quickly, or
sure through the Chair, if I may. This is our prepaid inpatient Health Plan Contract in the amount of 1,000,000,003 $1,036,048,571
this is essentially our Medicaid funds.
Billion, 38 million,
1,036,000,000 okay?
We'll get there. All right. Anybody have any questions through
the Chair? I'm extending from this board action 2521 as it pertains to Henry Ford house.
Do they have to do that? Because we're only approving your money in. We're not proving money out.
I would defer to compliance on that, but this is simply the money from MDHHS to us in order to pay our providers. It's not a contract between us and Henry Ford Health or anything. You can stay in
to piggyback on legal. She is correct. You do not have to abstain from this board action. Yes, I
do, because I have a relationship with MDHHS as well.
In your your abstention remains. Thank you,
right. All right. All right. So I've got, is there any discussion? So talk to this at length, so hearing no further discussion. We have a motion. We have support. We have one of noted abstention. All in favor. Aye, opposed. Abstained. Noted motion passes. Next item. Ba, 2525
Move approval, support.
We just did 2520 that was done.
We just did 2521 21
Okay, okay, 2525
Mr. Parker,
yeah,
just wondering the breakdown that is here. Stacy, I noticed that Wayne County local match funds are in there for 23 million. Is how does that happen? Does this Wayne County send the money to the state, and they send it back or
to the chair that the $23 million only 17.6 of it is coming from Wayne County government. The other is related to a performance bonus that we receive from the state. But the funds wait to answer your question, Wayne County party mental health code sends money directly to Detroit Wayne integrated health network
because it's included in here as revenue from the state, or is this local? I believe this is all the revenue that comes in, regardless if it's state or anywhere else.
This is the, is this the, this is the budget board action, correct? Or are we on the which, I'm sorry, which contract I
understood that the reason why I didn't go to Finance Committee that we just received this last Friday, and you had to go to executive committee in order to bring
it here, the Chair, if I may. I believe that was the pihp agreement, right? Oh, yeah. This
is the budget board action commission. This
went to finance. Oh, absolutely
with the finance. This was the budget that was
blaming on my memory. Thank you. No problem.
Supposed to stay up there, alright? So we have a we have a motion, we have support, and we have no further discussion. All in favor,
standing again from board action, 2525 as well. No, yes, 2525 as well.
Okay, here, no further discussion. All in favor, aye, opposed. Stand noted motion passes. Where are we at now? 2527 Yes, all right. 2525 27 cmhsp agreement, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Move for approval. Mr. Chair, I've had a move. Move apart. What
I miss. Roseanne, again, 2527
you're a busy guy. Okay, could somebody come up? Is this what we've been waiting for through
the Chair, if I may? This is essentially our other MDHHS contract for general fund. It's the grant agreement between us and MDHHS. So this is another 1.303 this is $21,460,901 $460,901
from Michigan
Department. Oh, okay,
okay, all right. Here is there any discussion on this very no discussion? All in favor? Aye Opposed. Abstentions been made. Motion passes. Thank you, right? Cynthia tell you better not take any more days off. Interim President, CEO monthly report was single, good afternoon, did
the Chair, if I may, I believe you skipped your ad hoc reports.
What ad hoc report?
Sorry, I did a lot of writing on this piece of paper, policy bylaw committee, a full report would be from Mr. Phillips, but I believe your full report was in the was in the policy we just made,
okay? No, no, that's not. We had some other actions as well. Thank you, Mr. Chair, we met the policy Bylaws Committee. Met on Tuesday, September 10, 2024 and there was a full agenda. The the committee reviewed the CEO appraisal policy and the board travel policy as well. The CEO appraisal appraisal policy was reviewed in similar language, was recommended by the committee that two thirds of the board members needed to respond to the CA CEO appraisal before the board can consider and act upon it. The committee had, at his previous meeting, request legal opinion from outside counsel to determine whether it was advisable for us to make this policy change, and upon review from outside counsel, the committee decided to add the language and to respond, and has requested the legal department to bring back to the committee for review before a recommendation is presented to the full board, legal is also requested to include language that would not allow a minority faction of the board to unreasonably delay or derail the evaluation process so the policy so that the policy will be presented to the full board at a future meeting, as relates to the board, travel policy. It was reviewed, and the committee determined at this time there was no changes needed to the to that policy, the committee considered developing an intern, interim CEO policy. It has been requested of Mr. Connelly, the VP of human resources, to provide a draft of succession plans to and and a succession plans to be delivered to legal for review and bring back to the board policy Bylaws Committee at its next meeting. Finally, we reviewed bylaws. Review the bylaws of Article Seven, board, committee, section one, standing committees. The committee will bring a recommendation to the full board that the policy bylaw committee become a standing committee. However, this will require the development of a charter and a change of the bylaw board, bylaws that will require two thirds vote. Legal has requested to provide, has been requested to provide a draft Charter, which will include the purpose of the committee, the members, the duty and responsibilities of the committee, along with required update language to the board bylaws to the next policy bylaws meeting, which is scheduled for November, 24 21st 2024 At 1pm with a follow in meeting scheduled for Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 1pm Mister Chair, that concludes my report.
Next
item would be Strategic Plan Committee. Doctor Carter,
there is no strategic plan committee report for this meeting,
the Board, building committee, yes,
Mr. Chair, we did have a meeting on September 4. A number of things that we were able to get information on. There is a RFP out right now for seven mile construction manager that we hope to receive the information by the first of October, and then it will be deliberated and evaluated. We also for the down river facility, there's RFP that's going out by the end of September. For the same thing, the construction manager there in that facility, there the Woodward building that we're in right now, just to let you know that there was some flooding in the basement, no fault of our building, but of the pumping system in this area. But it was no extensive damage that took place the wine dot facility that we are leasing that we have through the chairperson s is an approval gave the administration to move forward with that lease so we can start to get it in place. We anticipate it opening by January in order to meet the needs of our reserves, exactly what it is leave it for our interim CEO to tell what we needed by the first of January. So that was given in order to move forward with that facility. That concludes the report from the board building committee,
right through the Chair, if I may. Yes, just a quick point of the clarification. There was no flooding here in the Woodward building. The toilets weren't working due to the power grid outage with the storms that we had. But there was no flooding here in the Woodward building, just the toilets weren't flushing.
All right, no, thank you. Not sure if that's good or bad news. That's good. That's
good because there's no water. We'd put a lot of money into this building to make sure that the basement was never so, yeah, it was just the power outage and the toilets were flushing.
Okay, all right. Next item is, CEO, search committee. Dr tag, are you up there?
Mr. Chair, yes, as a member of the committee, I think I can go over some of the things that were decided, and Jody can help add anything to this. There's eight people that have made the cut, I guess you would say, and we decided to interview all eight of them virtually. So that's going to take place on September 27 that we virtually were interviewed them. We have all the same questions we're going to ask them, and we'll be rating them based on the standard rating sheet that has been developed that after that, we hope to be able to narrow down to two to three individuals that then will go through some additional interviews and presentations. They will meet with our stakeholders in two sessions, different stakeholders, and we would have an in person interview with them. And we hope by the end of that, we will recommend a individual to the board by our October meeting. Jody, did you want to add anything to that?
Jody Connolly, Vice President human resources, Detroit way Integrated Health Network. Through the Chair, you did indicate that there were eight persons selected to move to the pre screen process. I did want to advise that there was one candidate that did withdraw. So we are down to seven that will be interviewed on September 27
Okay, on
the Zoom interviews that you're going to perform, are other board members allowed to
quietly watch? Yes, they can all watch and observe. They're not able to ask questions, though. Okay, it would be a public meeting. Anyone besides the board members will be able to view it. Okay, doctor,
that was maybe my question.
Are the are the candidates from beyond the state of Michigan?
All of the candidates are local. No, they're not beyond the state of if you like
to hear the names, Jodi could repeat those the seven candidates.
So the seven candidates are as follows, Brooke Blackwell, Birch, Kathy Dockery, Michael Hunter, Elizabeth nicely, Lori Sumner, William Ward and James White. Madasha tawaka, who was originally included in the group, withdrew his candidacy.
You okay, all right, that's that right. I can move on now, correct my boss as I can interim president. CL, monthly support. Good
afternoon, Mr. Chair and respected board members. I will go through some of the highlights of the area that are indicated out here. I know there was a robust conversation on the crisis center operations at the PCC that dr, dr Carter and from Grace Wolf with the VP of crisis services. But few things I do want to highlight, we had conversation on the data and analysis to see what really has stuck as part of opening. Are we able to hit the mark? Are we moving in the right direction, and are there changes that we need to incorporate in lieu of the upcoming other facilities, which are going to be of the similar model? Few things that stood out, one of the key pieces was ability to engage the crisp which is our clinically responsible service provider, there has been significant increase in member engagement, and I think that was a big piece to ensuring there is community reintroduction, connecting to services. Those things are improving. The second piece was ability to integrate hospital liaisons so that we can move people to the right level of service based on medical necessity, rather than them sitting in EDS for weeks, if not days. That's that was a huge part of that initiative, and that has been moving well. The third aspect is the introduction of the best program, which was a pilot program that Miss Wolff helped establish. In my conversation with folks at the state they are really looking closely at the best program to see if that's something they can incorporate at a state level. That's something uses peers, nursing and psychiatric support, and it is really first of its kind, and that has been a good between the CSU and the CRU, which are the crisis stabilization and crisis residential unit, and ability to do more of those to ensure there's an appropriate transition for members once they are discharged from Christmas crisis stabilization and require certain additional psychiatric needs. Those are some of the things that I really think we need to take notice of. We were we had our conversations with our parse providers, which are new Oakland and cope, and they have been extremely supportive to ensure that meaningful transitions in terms of whether a disposition to crisis care center, and, more importantly, awareness of that resource is out there, because to me, that really will talk about ability To ensure that we are able to redirect the individuals who are in house, who are ending up on the either in the hospital beds because of lack of location, or able to reduce the recidivism because folks have no other place to go. That has been a huge piece to that. In terms of integration pilot, we have been working closely with two of the health plans, and I really think that is going to be one different kind of integration. What we are in conversation is taking over some of their mild to moderate population, which traditionally we have served without really recovering the cost to provide that service. In this specific integration model, we will be reimbursed for all the services for their population, for behavioral health, to me, there's a new revenue source for the providers once it has been incorporated. Secondly, more importantly, is the continuity of the service. Regardless of who's coming in front of our providers, they're able to serve that without issue of establishing whether they can provide services or not. That is going to be one of the huge and we have spoken to even some of the legislators, and they are looking closely to see how this partnership is going to work, so that they can bring more health plans to that that corridor. In interest of that, we have been awarded a half a million dollar grant to establish a global repository of healthcare data that is coming from health plans our membership and regardless of where they have received service, and using artificial intelligence and other techniques to do some predictive analytics to see what's working at a state level. And that's that's a contract that's going to run through us. So state is doing a matching grant program for us. They're putting in half a million dollar, up to half a million dollars, and we are going to do based upon what the need is of the phase one, and as it gets implemented, if there's it turns out to be what we are perceiving it to be, then there'll be additional dollars flowing in to ensure that this is something that can be implemented at the state level. That's on the integration piece in terms of a long term residential care as you are aware, we are in working closely with our Trillium Health on putting a 52 bed, 31 long term psychiatric and 21 geriatric support beds in the city of Detroit. We are in process of finalizing the contract, and we'll be sharing with the Trillium team very soon, hopefully next week, that's what we are targeting, so that once we had come to an agreement on that contract, that can be brought back to the board for formal approval and moving forward on that the final piece I would like to put forth is, as Some of you have heard in my earlier presentations, through PCC and finance, Detroit twin was awarded up a provisional ccbsc certification, and we are expected to receive a full certification once we turn in few documents that Miss Abney Reynolds and her team are working closely with rest of the departments to provide including MCO, which is doing the CRM certification. We are expected to be fully certified As of Jan first 2025 which, which is where, you know, Mr. Parker alluded to one of the extinction approvals that we are requesting be able to start providing those services to CCBHC membership, which is the same membership and more where there is no insurance, irrespective of whether they are insured or not, we are able to provide them complete set of services based on based on their medical necessity. I do want to hint on on one thing which, which has been out there in terms of a little anxiety on the provider network, is somehow Troy twin is going to be taking over and serving all this membership. And I do want to state for the record that we are working closely with any provider who's out there, who's able to work a DCO contact with us ability to provide any services that complement the services that are we are responsible for. And because the network is huge, it just opening couple of facilities is not going to be enough. We're going to look for other partnership within the provider network to be able to outreach and provide those supports across the network to any and all membership, more importantly, folks who are not having insurance or are not having complete benefit plans,
the CCBHC. Where's it going to go? Is it going to go into one of our new buildings? Or what?
At CCBHC we're going to start? I forgot to mention, we are expanding onto the third floor of our 707 which is our crisis center hub, to open our first clinic in next couple of weeks. We have the staffing to support that we just finishing up that's gonna go there, yes, at the 707, wherever you have, okay, yes. And the second aspect is the Y and dot clinic, which is going to be full service for adult and children, and it's gonna, it's gonna be an appropriate, it's gonna be a proper clinic. The third is gonna be the next door Catholics church that's gonna be first, subsequently, next year, to renovate and start providing services, from that standpoint, all in line with direct services, complemented with CCHC services.
Okay, all right, so we have any questions?
Yeah, I do go ahead. No,
just a compliment. Just, I know I told you in private, congratulations to you and your team on the CC, BHC, and just let you know that you you know, I'm speaking personally for myself, but I'm pretty sure the board members feel the same that you are doing a tremendous job for stepping in as interim CEO till this time. So thank you very much. Thank
you so much. I really appreciate but again, it's the teamwork and everybody's contributing and making sure that we continue to grow and provide the necessary services to the network lathe reflects leadership. Thank you.
Oops, yeah,
Manny, can you reflect my refresh my recognition you have taken on this position as interim CEO? Has there been any adjustments to your compensation for doing so. Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Okay, that's all I need to know.
Thank you.
All right. Any other questions? Hearing none. I guess we wanted to provide a presentation by sidegenics.
I music,
welcome.
Hi, there, hello. I'm Darlene Vassy, the CEO of psychiatics. I want to thank all of
you. So it's not going to work here. I have to light
up. We just get closer. Okay, all right. I'm darling vsy, the CEO of cygenx, and I want to thank all of you for allowing us to come and present to you today. We are a premier provider, primarily of the IDD population in Wayne County. In Wayne County, sorry, thank you. And we love our members. We love our families. They're not necessarily members, or they're more our friends. And
yes, what population
did you say the IDD population? Thank you. We do a small percentage, probably about 12% of the SMI population. But I'd like to introduce my staff, my managers, program managers, Danielle Duckett and La Jean partmore and Shay Williams. This is, he's my marketing manager and also facilities manager. He kind of wears a bunch of hats, but these are just part of my leadership team, and they're just awesome. I couldn't ask for a better team. Thank you so much. I'm going to, I'm going to hand it over to my man, my main my manager's right in
Good afternoon everyone, as Darlene said, my name is La Jean, and I am one of the clinical program managers at cygenx. I'm just going to briefly talk a little bit about the services that we provide to our members and who we are as an agency. So our mission is to improve the health and wellness wellness of our community by delivering quality services to members who are diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and mental illness. Within our mission, we also operate under four guiding principles, which are that the people always come first, their strength and diversity. You do what's right because it's right and the desire to improve is constant. We implore our staff to operate within the mission and within the guiding principles as they're providing services to our members. Our members are the core of what we do, but we offer nine in house services to our members. So we offer targeted case management, occupational therapy and speech therapy. Our occupational therapists work with our members to hone in on their gross and fine motor skills to improve their activities of daily living, while our speech therapists assist them with functionally expressing their wants and needs. In addition to those services, we also offer outpatient therapy and psychology services. Our psychologists and outpatient therapists both offer outpatient therapy, but our psychologists take it a little further and offer assessments. They do behavior treatment planning. They offer guardianship testing and other diagnostic testing as well. We also have peer services in house, in addition to psychiatric psychiatric services and linked to wellness nursing services. Our psychiatrist and our nurses work hand in hand to ensure that our members are taking their medications safely and to provide nursing education. We also have a behavior health home, which consists of a behavioral health specialist at this time, and she helps our members to bridge the gap between their mental and their physical health at this time, I'm going to turn it over to Danielle to talk about coordination of care.
Good afternoon, everyone. If we could just move to the next slide, please. Thank you. So I just want to highlight our case managers to you. Lejean spoke about our programs that we we offer internally, but there are a lot of programs that we also coordinate and link externally. So as most of you are probably familiar, case managers are vital to that coordination, and we have so many great staff at cygenx, we have folks who also speak dual languages, so we offer Spanish speaking case managers as well as Arabic speaking so that really helps with coordinating and linking those services, especially when it comes to the complexities of needs that We see with our folks that we serve. So the services you see on the screen are those external services, and then our case managers are also linking those internal services and programs that LA Jean just spoke about previously. If you can move to our next slide, I'll talk a little bit about who we serve and what the what our population looks looks like when we break it down. So we have just over 1300 consumers right now, and most of those, as Darlene mentioned, about 88% of those are folks with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Most of our population is also children. So about 57% of those we serve are children, and most of those are under 10. So those that walk in our doors are often very little, very cute, and we get to see them grow and progress. It's really, really beautiful to see them engage in the services and really develop So thankfully, we get to see them grow up too. So you'll see that some of our folks are a little bit older, but we service folks from one all the way to probably 81 so our next slide, we'll talk a little bit about what makes us special, and a lot of it is based on the folks that we serve, and we really target our programs to fit their needs.
All right, so what makes sygenic special? Some of those things are going to be that we are female, owned and operated. We deliver quality services in 2022 we had a perfect carp score, and we are hoping to do that again this year. We also have walk in hours for case management and psychiatric services in order to account for members who may miss appointments, who need reschedules. We also have a rapidly growing Behavioral Health Home Program, which is also called Your Wellness Connection. We currently have 109 members in that program, and we also host seven member events yearly that give our members an opportunity to come in and not be so focused on their treatment, but it gives them an opportunity to be social with other members, with their families, their friends, and our staff. We also have an in house, speech and occupational therapy gyms. And we also have training kitchens with help help our members with kitchen safety and basic ADLs. Additionally, coming soon, we have, if you could advance to the next slide, please. We have a member boutique that's going to be in our Dearborn location. It's going to help our members to be able to dress for success, for employment opportunities, help them to practice shopping and activities of daily living, and it'll be a resource for members who have clothing needs. We will house this in our clinic, and all the clothing is gently used or new. At this time, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Williams.
All right, hello everybody. I'm Shay Williams, the marketing and facilities manager for Psych GenX. Want to say thank you to La Jean Danielle and and Darlene for for their words. You've heard a lot about who it is we are and what it is we do, so we've really went at the your auditory senses. What I'd like to do is transition to the visual. If you go to Slide six,
so slide six at the bottom, there should be a YouTube link right there about us, so you missed it. So what we've done, you've heard a lot about what we do. What we've done is taken a very real scenario between member and staff member, and we've translated it to film. So once we get this YouTube video up, if everybody would lock in for 120 seconds, no Popcorn you can enjoy this
wouldn't make eye contact. I
she had difficulty, trusted me,
but I showed up again and again. I and those are two years of working together
our connection group today. Jada, hi. It might seem like a small victory, let's play. But to her and I, it's worth everything. Every day I get to make the difference, and the future looks brighter than that.
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All right. Thank you for your attention. I hope you enjoyed that that speaks to relationship building, and it speaks to impact, to things that we are we are very proud of as hygenics, that essentially is a prelude to what we've created, so that essentially is a prelude to what we've created, a digital capsule in this capsule. Well, this capsule is designed to connect people further to our mission, give folks an in depth view of who we are, what we do. At the fabric in this capsule we've included, we'll include this presentation here today. We've included our current our current brochure. We've included our media kit. We've included some very exclusive visuals and videos that attest to our values and our vision and, most importantly, the heart of our organization. They highlight our team members. So we built this that we put together, this capsule, which ultimately will share, will share with the board, as well as the audience, to anybody who who has a conversation with me, with me after up on the screen now you can see some contact information. It's, it's my hope that something said here today or seen today not only informs everyone up here, but inspires for continued engagement as we as we all reach forward and move forward and push impact And the Wayne County area and community mental health. Once again, I want to thank the board for allowing us this agenda time. I want to thank you for watching our our produced feature film. Want you to have a wonderful day. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you very much. We appreciate that the way we get to know a lot of services in the area that we didn't know was going on, but,
but, oh, so everyone here, I don't have email addresses for everyone. Have some for some of them, if someone just lets me know who is the the media for that, I want to make sure I get this capsule out to you.
Okay, okay, thank
you. Looking forward to it. All right, moving on. We're going to be we have a review of our action items with Miss blacker, Mr.
Chair. There was just one action item, and that was Miss Ruth's request to send a report on the juvenile restorative program regarding a breakdown of participants, education, vocational training, life skills training and any other programs. And I think were we including the future schools or no? No future schools? No.
Okay, perfect.
And that's all I have. Mr. Chair,
thank you. Do we have people online watching
Good afternoon? Mr. Chair, yes, we have several members of the public with us today. So I guess at this time, we'd like to invite them to make public comment if they wish to do so,
invite them. Nobody does enough to read it.
Okay, so our guests for today's meeting, we'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to make public comment. You can do so by raising your hand. We do have one written submission. However, let me, let me grab it.
I will begin then good and welfare public comment and announcements to the public. Members of the public are welcome to address the board during this time, for no more than two minutes, the Board Liaison will notify the chair when the time limit has been met. Individuals are encouraged to identify themselves and fill out a comment card to leave with the Board Liaison. However, those individuals that do not want to identify themselves may still adjust the board on issues raised during good and welfare public comment that are of concern to the general public and may initiate an inquiry and follow up will be responded to and may be posted to the website. Feedback will be posted within a reasonable time frame. Information that is HIPAA related or of a confidential nature will not be posted, but rather responded to in an individual basement basis, is there? Could you read the requested one? So
we have one written submission from Nawal Al said, with caring kids. And his comment was, I would like to ask about our file for our clinic and whether it was sent to the credentialing committee, and if so, what is the timeline for approval or disapproval?
So to the executive committee, we would like that response. Mr. Singla, can look it up absolutely, yeah, all right,
um,
anybody else? No, can I get get a is there any board comments before we go move that support? All in favor, aye, aye, opposed. We are adjourned.
