Thursday, May 29, 2025
5/29/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Southwest Counseling Solutions (SWCS) is a leading provider of behavioral health services for youth, adults and families and is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) expansion grantee. Currently reaching over 8000 consumers, SWCS is a 501(c)(3), CARF accredited, Medicaid certified, fully licensed mental health service provider with nearly five decades of experience servicing the needs of southwest Detroit. SWCS is licensed to provide SUD services and is one of seven CMH centers that serve Wayne County. The Community Project funding will focus on SWCS’ facility located at 1700 Waterman, Detroit, Michigan. 1700 Waterman was built in the 1960s. The original two-story 16,669 square foot building housed Trans American Freight. In 1988 a single-story 14,962 square foot addition was added to the back of the building increasing the square footage to 31,661 (includes basement). The proposed Community Project, SWCS’ New Crisis Response and Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic for Youth and Adults at the Waterman Campus, is designed to address the significant and growing need for integrated behavioral health services in Wayne County. The project costs, $2,565,000 will revolutionize the Waterman Campus to serve consumers in crisis. Building improvements and infrastructure changes will make the facility: • Accessible to increased numbers of youth and adult clients. • Safer for consumers with emergency behavioral needs and those who serve them. • A new crisis response entrance will support separate clinical care spaces for adults and youth that will serve both mild/moderate clients and those with severe and immediate mental health crises. • Adaptable to delivery systems that address current and future behavioral health needs. • Delivery of telehealth care will be improved with infrastructure (e.g. broadband) enhancements. SWCS’ Waterman campus has tremendous potential for the provision of new and expanded services for consumers across southeast Michigan. The new crisis response entrance, designed to accept 24/7 referrals will facilitate SWCS’ goal of being the State of Michigan’s primary Spanish language referral partner for crisis intervention. The CCBHC award, growing demand for services, and anticipating future strategies for delivering behavioral health needs in the future is the impetus for this funding request. SWCS is seeking support for a Modernization project without equipment. Specifically, SWCS will renovate its current facility by modernizing its current facility interior and repair exterior building concerns. Modernizing activities include crisis response rooms, entry, human impact tested windows, security booths, new perimeter fence, ligature resistant bathrooms, training rooms, signage, updated electrical work, fire safety measures, exterior tuckpointing and paining, lobby area, telehealth suite, and culturally competent signage throughout the building and on the exterior. The project milestones are focused from September 30, 2023 – April 30, 2025 with an anticipated goal, Michigan weather dependent, of a grant remodeling opening in Summer 2025.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).