LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - The Community Mental Health Authority of Clinton, Eaton and Ingham Counties (CMHA-CEI) is letting people know its effort to bring care to Mid-Michigan will not stop because of government funding concerns.

For the last several years, the Authority has been working to bring a crisis care center to the region, transforming the campus of the former McLaren Hospital on the south side of Lansing.

Advocates are calling it a bright spot on an otherwise uncertain future for mental health care. When the hard hats and wood scraps are gone, the building will become a hub of mental health services, including a facility called a Crisis Stabilization Unit.

“In those units, we’ll be able to very safely hold people for up to 72 hours, in a nice environment, where they will have a

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