Crisis services and autism: 988, MiCAL, mobile crisis, EmPATH Michigan has more than one number to call in a crisis, and knowing which one to dial, and what to hand...
Community Living Supports: how to request more hours The hours you get are driven by the words in your documentation, not by how tired you sound on the phone. Here...
CMH basics and being your own best case manager Your case manager is not your enemy, and they are not your only path forward either. Once you know who actually...
Budget cuts and loss of navigation resources When a state cuts funding to the organization that helps you find every other service, the cut doesn’t show up on a services...
Appeals, grievances, and fair hearings (MDHHS/PIHP denials) A denial letter looks final. It isn’t. Michigan gives you a real, structured path to challenge it, with a clock that starts the...
Michigan’s FY27 budget, read the way a disability family reads it Seventy five point two billion dollars, signed on July 21, 2026. Direct care wages held. The autism navigator survived....
Michigan’s day program landscape after prevocational services disappeared Michigan removed Prevocational Services from the Habilitation Supports Waiver in the renewal effective October 2024 and gave families six months to land...
Michigan pays direct care workers $17.13. Illinois pays $21.30. Same labor market, same year, same job. A four dollar and seventeen cent gap that Michigan rebuilds by hand every single...
Menstruation and Reproductive Health Management for Autistic Women and Girls Caregivers ask about this constantly in every support group that exists. Published guidance almost never answers them, because almost everything...
Medication Management and Finding a Qualified Psychiatrist Polypharmacy risk, what a real medication review looks like, how to track outcomes and side effects, and the five questions to bring to...
