This website has resources for families to access whenever the need arises. This includes counseling, wellness, and resources for all. Feel free to contact any of the district staff listed below.

The Brandon School District is excited to partner with the Cook Center for Human Connection and their website ParentGuidance.org. This is a mental health resource for parents and provides parents a trusted place to go for real answers, to find support and real help for their children.

This FREE resource offers parents access to licensed therapists delivering different courses for parents on topics like living with a child with depression, identifying anxiety, coping with grief and loss.

The four parts to this service are:

1. Six parent webinars

2. Parent Coaching
   • Sign in to ParentGuidance.org
   • Click on “parent coaching” to sign up for a trained parenting coach then select “Register for Coaching”
   • Coaching is just what it sounds like; one-on-one help with a trained coach, helping you face issues with yourself or your family. Coaching is free and confidential.

3. Online parenting courses
   • In ParentGuidance.org, click on “On-Demand Courses” and select over 50 Free courses in the privacy of your own home, led by licensed therapists.

4. Ask a Therapist
   • In ParentGuidance.org, click on “Ask a Therapist” to review therapist responses to Frequently Asked Questions submitted by parents, or submit a question of your own.

Questions: Contact Matt Koekkoek. Director of Student Support Services at mkoekkoek@brandon.k12.mi.us.

Common Ground

Available 24/7, free and confidential

Call 800-231-1127 for a crisis screening

Chat on website:

Common Ground offers behavioral and mental health intervention services 24/7 at the Resource and Crisis Center in Pontiac, MI. Our Crisis Assessment team, staffed by Master-level clinicians, will assess each individual and recommend a treatment path that may include hospitalization, care from another provider or treatment in one of the Common Ground programs onsite. On-site programs include crisis stabilization, crisis residential care, and sober support services.

Crisis Stabilization:
Clinical triage and face-to-face assessment by our multi-disciplinary team for people in crisis including walk-in crisis services and emergency department assessments & referrals.

Crisis Residential Care:
Recovery oriented, short-term, voluntary psychiatric care, which includes medication management and monitoring, nursing, group therapy, art therapy and discharge planning for recovery.  This Unit is an alternative to inpatient psychiatric hospitalization.

Sober Support Services:
Staffed by paramedics and peer support specialist, our Sober Support Unit is a voluntary 24-hour program designed to monitor, coach, and connect adults with low health risks, to detoxification services and follow-up residential substance use treatment.

Medical insurance is not required. No appointment is needed. 

Common Ground Behavioral Health Urgent Care

(Available 7 days/week- hours vary by day; Virtual Sessions)

Call: (248) 983-5454

The BHUC is a virtual visit platform for people who need immediate emotional or psychiatric support from a licensed healthcare provider. If you’re in urgent need of emotional care, schedule a virtual visit with a mental health expert.

Youth Mobile Crisis Team

Open 24 hours

Immediate Crisis Screening

Call 877-800-1650

1200 N. Telegraph Rd, Building 32E

Pontiac, Mi 48341

Adult Mobile Crisis Support

Call 800-231-1127

Michigan Resource & Crisis Line (MiCAL)

(Available 24/7; Free; Confidential)

Call: 988 or 844-44-MiCAL (64225)

Text: 988

Website

New Oakland Family Centers

Available 24/7, Intakes

Call 1-800-395-3223 or 1-855-782-1899

Live chat on website: https://newoakland.org/home

New Oakland Family Centers has been serving southeast Michigan since 1990. We offer a full continuum of mental health services for adults, children and adolescents with locations in: Center Line, Clarkston, Clinton Township, Farmington Hills, Flint, Livonia, Okemos, Southgate and Warren. New Oakland provides a new, holistic and effective approach to mental health and immediate access to mental health services. New Oakland offers: *Fast access for psychiatric evaluations/med reviews *Crisis response/mobile deployment *Transportation *Diverse clinical team *Integration with physical health

Crisis Stabilization Services:

New Oakland Crisis Stabilization Services are designed to provide a short-term alternative to inpatient psychiatric services and are available for on-site clinical intervention and/or telephone consultation at all times.Provided by a qualified and caring multidisciplinary team of licensed mental health and nursing professionals,  under the supervision of New Oakland staff psychiatrists, our Crisis Stabilization Services are intensive treatment interventions

Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP):

Like hospital-based treatment, FACE to FACE provides intensive therapy and treatment with medical oversight and supervision. Unlike many hospitals, care takes place in a warmer, more nurturing office-based environment for six hours per day. The FACE to FACE day program is the core service that separates New Oakland from treatment models used by traditional mental health providers. The average length of stay is 7-10 days. FACE to FACE utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach to assess, intervene and empower both the individual and the family to work towards resolution of the presenting problem.

Youth and Family Behavioral Health Service Program (YFCC):

OCHN launched a youth and family care connection at the Resource Crisis Center to deliver services to youth 17 years and younger regardless of insurance status. They offer triage for behavioral health crisis, supports, and care coordination. 

University of Michigan Health System:

Psychiatric Emergency Medicine University Hospital

To make an appointment 

734-764-0231 or 800-525-5188

1500 E Medical Center Dr

Floor BI Room A240

Ann Arbor Mi 48109

*Please use the Emergency Department entrance. 

For psychiatric emergency call 734-936-5900

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

1-800-273-8255 or 988

Blackhawk Hotline

248-660-0138 (report bullying and school concerns)

Oakland County Health Network Access Screening:                               

This process determines where peoples needs are best met, based on severity and urgency. Screening's can be requested by calling: 

248-464-6363

OCHN Access