Program areas at Development Centers
The early childhood education program is a federally funded program for early head start and head start education. The program serves infants and children from birth to age five, as well as their families and pregnant women throughout northwest detroit in center-based classrooms and by home visitation.
The children's services program provides comprehensive mental health services to children and families. These services include crisis intervention, as well as individual, group, and family therapy and prevention programs.
The adult services program provides a comprehensive psychosocial rehabilitation program for persons with mental illness. This program includes individual therapy, group therapy, psychiatric evaluation, prevocational services, transitional employment, and job placement.
The north central campus program utilizes two sites that provide outpatient services for adults with mental illness or children with severe emotional problems. The services include assessment, individual, group and family therapy, skill building, case management, psychiatric evaluations, and medication reviews, as well as crisis intervention. A clinic at one of the sites includes co-located physical health care providers and a pharmacy.
The career center services program provides job search and employment services for persons referred from the Michigan department of health and human services for the partnership, accountability, training, and hope and workforce innovation and opportunity act programs. This program is open to all detroit residents and includes job coaching and placement, case management and life skills, referrals to education and training programs, and a vocational educational training component, which assesses participants for various types of training programs and assists participants in enrollment, attendance, completion of training, and unsubsidized employment.
The early childhood and family services program provides services to families with young children from birth through age five. The services involve prevention, intervention, and treatment, and may be provided in the home, in the community, or at the center. Families referred may have a child with attachment difficulties, a developmental delay, or an adjustment to child care or school, or they may need parenting resources or parenting education.
The intellectual and developmental disabilities program provides support to persons with developmental disabilities. The goal is to empower people in creating full and meaningful lives. The program includes mental health outpatient and psychiatric services, referrals to respite care, and employment and skill building services.
Other program services