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NEGC HISTORY . ABOUT US… During 1962-1963, the Junior League of MISSION: Northeast Guidance Center (NEGC) is Detroit explored what could be done to help committed to the health of children, adults and families by providing innovative community-based services through eastside Detroit and Grosse Pointe children behavioral and primary healthcare. with counseling services. Through a Steering Committee of concerned community residents, NEGC is a comprehensive community health agency the Northeastern Wayne County Child Guidance founded in 1963 that provides integrated healthcare to Clinic was founded in 1963. children, families and adults with mental health disorders to help them achieve maximum independence and health. Board and staff worked with hospitals and other NEGC provides outreach, prevention, mental and area agencies under the direction of Dr. Eli Z. primary healthcare, and substance use treatment to over Rubin of the Lafayette Clinic for the development 5,800 individuals annually in Wayne, Macomb and Oakland counties. of an eastside community mental health center which became known as Northeast Guidance Center in 1966. Dr. Rubin was selected as the first full-time Executive Director. OUR PROGRAMS & SERVICES: The Assistance League became the major • AFC Residential/Case Management philanthropic effort to support the work of the • Assertive Community Treatment Clinic in 1964, and the rest is history. • Autism Supports Coordination • CAPPA/Jail Diversion/Day of Restoration • Case Management • Cornerstone Youth • Home-based Services • Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Programs • Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Program – ASPIRE • Integrated Healthcare • Juvenile Justice Wraparound • Medication Management • Mental Health First Aid Certification • Mental Health Outpatient Services • Mobile Crisis Services – C.O.P.E. • Motor City Clubhouse • Peer Support Services • Prevention & Education • Psychiatric Evaluations Your Health. • School-Based Mental Health Initiative • Senior Reach® Our Mission. • Substance Use Disorder Treatment • Supported Employment/Supportive Housing • Systems of Care • Youth in Transition Sherry E. McRill Peggy Trewn DEAR FRIENDS We want to offer our heartfelt thanks to the many people (ACT) and ASPIRE (I/DD) programs to accommodate whose work is driving innovation and improving the their growing interdisciplinary support teams. Our CAPPA lives for our consumers, especially on Detroit’s eastside. outreach and training program is expanding services and Healthcare is always changing and providers are staff has been approached by federal law enforcement, launching new approaches to deliver better care at lower as well as other State jurisdictions, to provide program costs. Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority is consultation and training. encouraging more agencies to provide holistic care – During 2018, another Little Free Library was established behavior and physical health, along with economic, at the Eli Z. Rubin Children’s Center to encourage literacy spiritual and housing support. Northeast Guidance for children visiting the clinic and families in the Center and several other large mental health providers community. Camp Kelly engaged children age 7 to 17 have been recognized for already providing these core in six weeks of activities and outings, including exercise elements of holistic care to the consumers we serve. by WISE Decision. Integrated healthcare will soon be Our professional staff enables infants to develop into available to all who visit the Kelly Road facility as Detroit healthy children; children and youth to lead successful, Community Health Connection (DCHC) opens the resilient lives at home and school; adults to maintain new co-located Dr. Peter Slaughter Health Center. A stability in the community, foster independence and pediatric Nurse Practitioner and an adult Internist will maximize their individual potential; and families to create provide healthcare to children, adults and Macomb clients. brighter futures for parents and their children. C.O.P.E. We were honored to offer an Anti-Stigma Forum on the (Community Outreach for Psychiatric Emergencies) opioid crisis with keynote speaker Ken Daniels telling the continues to provide services in emergency departments audience about his son’s tragic death. Many conversations and adult foster care homes for adult residents of Wayne have begun as a result of the event. Please join us on May County experiencing a behavioral health crisis. Our 2, 2019, for a community dialogue on Suicide Awareness. School-Based Mental Health Initiative has expanded into four select Detroit Public School Community District We thank you for participating in our annual meeting, schools. Senior Reach® is continuing efforts to identify joining us on social media sites, reading our eNews, older adults who need assistance to live independently. making a donation before the year ends or volunteering In spite of difficult economic times, we were fortunate at an event. to add offices to both the Assertive Community Treatment Sincerely, Sherry E. McRill, President & CEO Peggy Trewn, Board Chair 1 EXECUTIVES & ADMINISTRATION BOARD EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP OF DIRECTORS & ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM (As of 10/1/18) 2017-18 OFFICERS Sherry E. McRill President & CEO Peggy A. Trewn, PhD Eastern Michigan University, Chair Jean Alcé, MD Medical Director Stephanie Brady, DNP Ascension/St. John Providence, Vice-Chair/Chair Elect Sharon Common Fund Development Officer Michael Mattei United Metal Products, Secretary Jane Damren Compliance Officer Michael Breen Cynthia Hill-Jackson Genoa Healthcare, Treasurer THTH Vice President Clinical Programs SAVE THE DATE FOR NEGC’S 9 ANNUALANNUAL K4K:K4K: AUGUSTAUGUST 6,6, 20192019 Michele Reid, MD CNS Healthcare, Member at Large Andrew Johnson, III Vice President Performance Improvement & Compliance Philip Whitfield 2017-18 DIRECTORS Vice President Finance Dianne Bostic Robinson, Social Work Leadership Donna Zick Consultant Director of Information Systems & Technology Jeff Burmeister, PACE Maria Putman Raymond Carey, Foley & Lardner Law Firm Executive Administrative Assistant to the CEO & Board of Directors Richard Carson, Renaissance Consulting Group Oreese Collins, Jr., Retired Public Administration Executive ADULT SERVICES Henry C. Conerway, Jr., Ambassador Nursing & Rehabilitation Centre Lisa Marszalec Clinical Program Director Karen Gray Sheffield, St. John Providence Open Arms Sharyn Johnson, Coalition on Temporary Shelter CHILD, YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES Joyce Leon, MD, Henry Ford Health System DeLisa Glaspie ALE Associates, LLC Anthony Morton, Clinical Program Director Rochelle Morton, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan Curtis Smith, Central City Integrated Health Michele Williams, Leadership Resources Consulting Wayne W. Bradley, Sr., Director Emeritus, Detroit Community Health Connection 2 3 WARM COATS EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP & ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM (As of 10/1/18) SAVE THE DATE FOR NEGC’S 9THTH ANNUALANNUAL K4K:K4K: AUGUSTAUGUST 6,6, 20192019 Nearly 215 Kruize4Kids guests boarded the Ovation yacht to help raise $57,000 from sponsorships, donations and ticket sales. This year proceeds from Kruize4Kids will help the continuum of services and programs for our children, includingWARM COATS, an initiative to distribute warm and colorful winter coats to 1,000 children registered in NEGC’s programs, along with their siblings, to help keep them warm, healthy and in school. We’ll also be purchasing hats, gloves, baby bundles for infants and extra-large coats for youth. K4K SPONSORS 2018 Admiral $10,000 Shipmate $500 Head to Head Psychiatric Chemical Bank Services Dr. Jean Alcé Coalition On Temporary Commodore $5,000 Shelter (COTS) Behavioral Health Terri & Henry Conerway Professionals, Inc. (BHPi) Development Centers, Inc. PCE Systems BOARD OF DIRECTORS Genoa Healthcare LEFT TO RIGHT: Michael Mattei, Anthony Morton, Michael Breen, Sherry Captain $3,000 Lighthouse Insurance McRill (President & CEO), Peggy Trewn, Wayne W. Bradley, Sr., Stephanie Group, Inc. Brady, Michele Williams, Rochelle Morton Ascension Michigan Dr. Atul C. Shah, MD (MISSING: Dianne Bostic Robinson, Jeff Burmeister, Raymond Carey, Rear Commodore $1,500 Richard Carson, Henry Conerway, Oreese Collins, Jr., Karen Gray- Yeo & Yeo CPAs & Business Sheffield, Sharyn Johnson, Joyce Leon, Michele Reid, Curtis Smith) Comerica Bank Consultants Andrea & Michael Mattei Sherry & Lannie McRill Reid Harris & Associates Wayne Center UAW-Ford National Programs Center & Ford Motor Company 2 3 A SISTERHOOD OF VOLUNTEERS THE ASSISTANCE LEAGUE TO NEGC NEGC’s Board and staff are thankful to have had many years of dedication, volunteerism and fundraising on behalf of children’s services by the Assistance League to the NEGC. At one time 300 members strong, NEGC is honored to continue to have Assistance League Alumni volunteering for activities such as Adopt-A- Child gift wrapping, Day of Restoration hygiene kit assembly and WARM COATS distribution. The building that houses the children’s clinic was purchased and built using Assistance League funds raised through the Detroit Auto Show Charity Preview. The Assistance League produced a juried art show, “Art on the Pointe,” for 20 years at the Eleanor and Edsel Ford House, in addition to providing help with volunteer mailings, events planning and hosting, and other creative fundraisers in the community to benefit NEGC. The league’s work enhanced the services of The Assistance League donated NEGC and brought crucial awareness to the agency’s children’s