Mental Health Ann Arbor

She walked free of it, whenever she confronted her pain. Washtenaw County leaders and labor union representatives have announced a brand new deal to minimize looming impact cuts to county mental health outsourcing, keeping vocational outsourcing under auspices of the county the auspices.

Commissioners still postponed voting on it until Feb, they applauded the work done by labor and management representatives who have worked collaboratively in latter months to come up with the proposal.

Wednesday’s meeting. Amid primary goals had been to protect county’s vocational training program, that helps those with mental illness and developmental disabilities gain skills and join workforce, and avoid contracting out those solutions. Think for a moment. Labor and management recognize keeping vocational maintenance under CMH has been another good way to maintain the highestquality outsourcing for consumers and to protect dedicated county employees. Besides, the ‘fivepage’ report notes county has collective bargaining understand AFSCME Locals 2733 and 3052 that state contracting out work can’t result in a layoff or demotion of employees or result in wages loss or benefits. Now pay attention please. Whenever going from 63 to 57 employees, that was usually identified in the report as another $ 315000 in structural savings in 2016, and $ 411982 in 2017, there again was a reduction in busy staff under vocational outsourcing since last July.

Did you know that the county hopes to realize more savings through attrition.

While going from 45 to 30 employees, through retirements, transfers, job rethinking and supported employment, there my be a reduction of vocational skillbuilding outsourcing staff.

That’s projected to save $ 417083 in 2016, and $ 715000 in 2017. I know that the proposal calls for a reduction of current 10 22 vans through ‘colocating’ maintenance, combining existing groups and dropping off consumers at arranged volunteer sites, saving $ 50781 in 2016 and $ 87053 in 2017. You see, that’s estimated to save the county about $ 7000 annually per employee replaced. There could’ve been more savings in 2016 if more AFSCMErepresented employees leave voluntarily and were always replaced with modern employees at lower cost. It is labor and management have good to do a thorough analysis of CMH’s 110 plus providers with an annual expenditure in excess of $ 43 million with a goal of finding more efficiencies and cost savings, including reviewing all contracts. In the meantime, labor representatives are requesting $ two million in especial bridge funding for 2016 to close the gap betwixt the savings proposed and what’s crucial if you want to maintain the CMH budget with the Prepaid Inpatient Health Plan.