Preparing for Your Own Hospitalization: The Caregiver Emergency No One Plans For You plan for every crisis your adult child might face. The one that keeps you up at night...
Obtaining and Maintaining Identification Documents Every benefits application, every job opportunity, every bank account starts with a document most families assume is simple to get. For a Level 2/3 adult,...
Pain Assessment in Nonverbal Autistic Adults: When Behavior IS the Symptom A broken bone, a kidney stone, an abscessed tooth. None of them announce themselves with words in an adult...
Your rights under the Michigan Mental Health Code A psychiatric crisis strips away the illusion that you’re in control of anything. The Mental Health Code says you and your family...
Navigating Hospitals: Inpatient Stays When Your Autistic Adult Needs Surgery or Extended Care Caregivers consistently describe an inpatient hospital stay as among the worst experiences of their entire caregiving life....
When CMH says there are no crisis residential beds “No beds” is one of the most frightening sentences a family can hear during an active crisis. It is also, more...
Therapy and peer groups near you (including neurodiversity-affirming groups) Isolation is one of the quietest crises in adult autism services, and it hits differently depending on your zip code. Metro...
Transportation barriers (paratransit, NEMT, brokerages, and workarounds) A missed pickup doesn’t just cost a ride. It costs the appointment, the day program slot, the job shift, and sometimes the entire...
The ‘Age 26 rule’ for extended transition services Most states cut special education off at 22. Michigan doesn’t, if your family member has a cognitive impairment eligibility and was already...
The Waskul settlement and what it means in meetings A 2013 class action settlement already tells your CMH exactly how services are supposed to be decided. Most families have never...
