1. Our goal is to help your child thrive.
In Wayne County’s network of 18 contracted Community
Mental Health providers, you choose a clinic that meets your
child’s needs.
Children, adolescents, and families with mental health, substance abuse, and/
or physical health conditions receive services within a system of care that is:
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STRENGTHS-BASED
Providers work in
partnership with you to
build upon the skills,
knowledge & strengths
that you and your child
already have.
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JUDGEMENT-FREE
Services are provided
in an environment
where your voice is
heard and your
perspectives are
valued.
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SUPPORTIVE
You have access to a
diverse range of
resources and the
opportunity to receive
parent peer-to-peer
support.
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Parents & Caregivers
What You Can Expect from Children’s Mental Health Services

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For Intake and Referral Services
please call: 1-800-241-4949
TRAUMA CAN RESULT FROM AN INTENSE EVENT THAT THREATENS A CHILD’S SAFETY AND SECURITY. INTENSE AND OVERWHELMING
FEELINGS OF FEAR, GUILT, SHAME, MISTRUST, OR HELPLESSNESS CAN DEVELOP. SEVERAL SYMPTOMS TO BE AWARE OF INCLUDE:
…Try this
Ask “what’s happening here?”
Instead of…
Thinking “what’s wrong with my child?”
This mental switch helps us to look at environmental factors that may be triggering the child’s behavior.
Something to Consider2
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority
www.dwmha.com/AuthorityDepts/ChildrenFamilies/Operations.aspx
Family Alliance For Change at Development Centers
http://www.develctrs.org/programs-services/family-alliance-for-change/
Fatherhood Initiative at The Children’s Center
http://www.thechildrenscenter.com/special-projects/fatherhood-initiative/
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
http://nctsn.org/resources/audiences/parents-caregivers
PRESCHOOL
• Feel helpless and uncertain
• Fear caregiver separation
• Cry and/or scream a lot
• Develop new fears
• Return to using baby talk
• Recreate the trauma through play
• Fail to develop to the next
growth stage
ELEMENTARY
• Become anxious and fearful
• Become clingy with an adult
• Have difficulty concentrating
• Show changes in school
performance
• Repeatedly discuss traumatic
event
• Become upset if they get a small
bump or bruise
MIDDLE & HIGH
• Feel depressed and alone
• Feel like they’re going crazy
• Engage in risky behavior
• Develop self-harming behaviors
• Say they have no feeling about
the event
• Discuss the traumatic event in
detail
2 How to Help a Traumatized Child in the Classroom. Retrieved from: http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_silent_epidemic_in_our_classrooms