Empowering Adult Wellness,
One Step at a Time

*If you or a loved one is in an emergency or life threatening situation, please immediately call 911. 

At Wellvance, we offer adults experiencing severe mental or emotional distress with immediate help. Crisis care is available 24/7 by calling our Wellvance Crisis & After Hours Line at 1-844-865-5569 or TTY 711.

What is Crisis Care vs. Emergency Care?

Crisis care focuses on providing immediate support for individuals experiencing severe mental or emotional distress, while emergency care addresses urgent physical health conditions that require immediate medical attention.

At Wellvance, we offer Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), a service that provides complete, local treatment for people with serious mental illnesses who haven't been helped much by other types of care. ACT is designed for those with the most severe symptoms and the greatest difficulties in daily life, like taking care of basic needs, finding safe housing, and staying safe. Adults in ACT receive help from a team of professionals, including mental health experts, nurses, and psychiatrists. Our Wellvance ACT team is trained in psychiatry, social work, nursing, substance use disorders, and job training. They provide these important services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year round.

Services may include:

• Medication management
• Supportive therapy
• Crisis intervention
• Hospitalization
• Substance use disorder treatment, including group therapy
• Teaching life skills, like managing daily activities
• Help with finding and keeping a job
• Support to access legal and advocacy services, financial aid, housing, money management, and transportation

For adults dealing with serious mental health issues, a Wellvance Care Manager will help them create a personalized recovery plan. Care Management supports adults in becoming as independent and self-reliant as possible, helping them manage their condition and life challenges. Care Management also provides ongoing, coordinated care as the first line of treatment.

What is Care Management?

Care Management involves assessing a person's needs and connecting them with local resources to meet those needs. These services can include help with financial support, food, clothing, shelter, housing, medical and dental care, transportation, social support, and therapy. It also includes support for people in hospitals, jail, or other restricted environments.

Services provided through Care Management vary depending on each person's unique needs. These services can take place in an office or within the community, depending on what the individual requires for their health and well-being. Everyone's path to recovery is different, and Wellvance Care Managers are here to offer help and guidance!

Community Living Supports (CLS) are services provided by Wellvance staff that help adults with serious mental illness live independently and participate actively in their community. The activities are based on the individual’s goals, choices and priorities as identified through an individual plan of service and may be provided in the adult's home or in their community.

An adult may get the following supports:

• Cooking meals
• Doing laundry
• Regular and deep cleaning of the home
• Help with daily tasks like bathing, eating, dressing, and personal care
• Shopping for groceries and other daily needs
• Getting involved in social and community activities
• Managing money
• Providing non-medical support
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Providing transportation to and from activities and home
• Joining in community events and recreational activities
• Going to medical appointments
• Getting necessary items and non-medical services
• Reminding and checking on medication use

At Wellvance, we provide older adults with mental illnesses or developmental disabilities a behavioral health assessment while they are in a skilled nursing facility. If services are deemed necessary, care can be provided within the skilled nursing care facility or by Wellvance.

*OBRA is a federally mandated program that requires persons with mental illness or developmental disability to be assessed prior to nursing home placement to ensure that needed mental health services are provided during placement. OBRA includes pre-admission screening and annual resident review.

Outpatient Therapy offers behavorial health therapy and wellness for adults aged 18 and older with severe or persistent mental health illnesses. Wellvance works together with the individuals to meet all identified goals. At Wellvance, outpatient therapy assists adults navigating challenges such as depression, anxiety, multiple life stressors, or coping with past or present trauma.

What Happens During Outpatient Therapy?

Services start with a thorough assessment to see if you qualify for care. This process also lets you work with your Wellvance therapist to create an individual plan of service. Services may include short individual or group therapy sessions.

If group therapy is suggested, Wellvance offers different group sessions in various locations across Iosco, Ogemaw, and Oscoda counties.

Adult Peer Support services are provided by people who have gone through similar life experiences as the Wellvance adults they are helping. People with mental health or substance use issues have a special ability to support each other because they share similar experiences. By sharing their own stories, they offer support, strength, and hope to others, helping them grow, improve their well-being, and recover.

Who Is a Peer Support Specialist?

A Wellvance Peer Support Specialist is a person with a significant life-altering experience. This is also referred to as a "lived experience." These specialists support adults with struggles pertaining to mental health, psychological trauma or substance use disorder. Because of their lived experience, these specialists have an expertise that professional training cannot replicate. Wellvance Peer Support Specialists assist adults in a multitude of areas including employment, housing, one-on-one support, wellness groups, advance directives and more.

At Wellvance, we recognize that living with a mental health condition and other health conditions is hard. That is why we offer a Partnership Aimed at Total Health (PATH) program. PATH is a behavioral health home designed to provide you services as part of your Medicaid benefit that will help you take control of your health and have long-term recovery.

The Behavioral Health Home PATH Program:

Your Care Team:  

Here’s what you should know:

Wellvance provides psychiatric services for adults with serious and ongoing mental health issues. Care is given by psychiatric doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, who offer full assessments and manage medications.

*These services are offered in conjunction with other Wellvance services.

At Wellvance, we work with a local partner to offer Supported Employment, helping adults with serious mental illnesses or disabilities find and keep jobs in the community. Having a job can make people feel better about themselves and give them more options in life. Supported Employment provides structure, routine, and income, allowing individuals to choose what to buy and where to live.

Supported Employment may include:

• Services that work together
• Jobs that pay fairly
• Help with understanding benefits
• Support when needed
• Ongoing assistance
• Focusing on what the person wants
• Job skills training
• Help with job applications and interviews