where to go for help
Domestic Violence / Sexual Violence
University Resources:
Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)
SAPAC provides services for the U-M community related to sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, sexual harassment, and stalking. SAPAC offers crisis intervention, outreach, counseling, advocacy, consultation, training, awareness, and prevention.
http://www.umich.edu/~sapac/
(734) 998-9368
24-hour Crisis Line: (734) 936-3333
UMHS Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
For health system employees
The UMHS Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a confidential, no cost service for UMHS faculty, staff, and their families as well as U-M staff and faculty located near UMHS. Our goal is to inspire ongoing individual and organizational development, while contributing to the health and well-being of the Health System community. We do this by providing brief counseling and coaching services, mediation services, crisis intervention, assessment and referral, educational and training programs, and supervisory, staff, and team consultation.
hr.umich.edu/mhealthy/programs/mental_emotional/eap.html
(734) 763-5409
Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FASAP)
For campus employees in Ann Arbor, Dearborn, & Flint
The University of Michigan Faculty and Staff Assistance Program (FASAP) offers a number of services to help staff, faculty, and their immediate family members with personal difficulties encountered at both work and home. All services are free of charge and confidential and include: short-term counseling on personal, emotional, family and work place issues; personalized coaching services to assist with achieving professional or personal goals; critical incident, trauma and grief counseling; and educational presentations on a variety of emotional and mental health topics.
www.umich.edu/~fasap
Central Campus (734) 936-8660 TTY (734) 647-1388
Flint Campus (734) 936-8660 TTY (734) 647-1388
Dearborn Campus (313) 593-5430
Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES)
Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) provides emergency/urgent walk-in evaluation and crisis phone services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for people of all ages. The following services are provided; psychiatric evaluation, treatment recommendations; crisis intervention; screening for inpatient psychiatric hospitalization and mental health and substance abuse treatment referral information.
To make an appointment, walk-in or call:
(734) 936-5900 TTY: (800) 649-3777
Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES)
(734) 996-4747
Take a Stand: Survivor website
The University is committed to supporting survivors of sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating/domestic violence and stalking. This website has been designed to provide important and timely information to survivors, friends and family members.
www.survivor.umich.edu
Women’s Health Resource Center, UMHS
The UMHS Women’s Health Resource Center offers free health information on women's health topics across the lifespan. It seeks to empower women to become more involved in their health care. The center is open to all women and their families.
http://www.med.umich.edu/whp/whrc/
(734) 936-8886
Community Resources:
Community Mental Health Services Programs
Mental health services in Michigan are coordinated through local Community Mental Health Services Programs (CMHSPs).This website provides an alphabetical list of local CMHSPs. The list includes contact information for your local program.
Community Mental Health Services Programs
Michigan Department of Community Health: Mental Health and Substance Abuse
The Mental Health and Substance Abuse Administration of the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) provides support and services for adults with serious mental illness, children with serious emotional disturbance, people with developmental disabilities, and people with substance use disorders.
http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2941---,00.html
517-373-3740
Michigan Mental Health Networker
The Networker website provides listings of mental health therapists, agencies, and support groups in Michigan. The site also provides news articles and other informational resources on mental health topics.
http://mhweb.org/index.html
Support Groups/ Self-Help Groups:
Note: If you don’t find the support group or self-help group you’re looking for, search on the more general sites listed under the Support Groups/ Self-Help Groups category. There are many more potentially relevant groups than can be included here.
Safe House Center, Washtenaw County
SafeHouse Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending domestic violence and sexual assault in Washtenaw County, Michigan. SafeHouse provides free and confidential services for any person victimized that lives or works in Washtenaw County.
Washtenaw County Support Group listings:
http://www.safehousecenter.org/sa-supportgroups.html
Survivors of Incest Anonymous (SIA)
SIA, started in 1982, is a 12-step, self-help recovery program modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous. There are no dues or fees. Confidentiality and anonymity are essential to our program. SIA is for men and women, 18 years and older, who were sexually abused as children. You will not be rejected because you think your abuse was "too horrible," and you will not discounted because you think your abuse wasn't "bad enough to count." Visit the website to search for support group meetings in your area or national phone meetings.
http://www.siawso.org/Default.aspx?pageId=7166
