Michigan Awards $3 Million Children’s Behavioral Action Team Grant To The Guidance Center

On March 1, 2015, The Guidance Center launched a statewide Children’s Behavioral Action Team (CBAT) funded by a $3 million grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health (DCH). The contract was awarded in January 2015 for a 19-month period that will run through September 30 2016. As part of the project, the CBAT will help 25 youth between the ages of 9 and 18 with complex behavioral and physical needs who are in facility placement at Hawthorn Center to transition to community placements with their families or to the most family-like setting possible to keep the . . .