Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton, Ingham Counties

The Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham Counties provides comprehensive crisis-focused mental health services for individuals and families experiencing urgent psychiatric and emotional distress in Lansing, Michigan. Operating twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the Crisis Services Department offers immediate evaluation, stabilization, and intervention for children, adolescents, and adults facing mental health or substance use emergencies. Services are accessible through walk-in crisis centers, mobile crisis response teams, and urgent care mental health programs designed to meet individuals where they are.

The facility specializes in crisis triage, psychiatric hospitalization screening, and short-term therapeutic stabilization while prioritizing community-based alternatives whenever clinically appropriate. Using a strengths-based and family-centered approach, clinicians work closely with local hospitals, emergency departments, schools, and community providers to ensure continuity of care and safe transitions to ongoing mental health services. By focusing on rapid response, safety planning, and connection to long-term supports, the Community Mental Health Authority plays a critical role in stabilizing crises and promoting recovery throughout Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham counties.