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Giving to Psychiatry

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Transforming Mental Health Care

You can transform lives. For those struggling with depression, anxiety, and related illnesses, finding care and the right treatment is critical. At U-M’s Department of Psychiatry, we are committed to broadening access to mental health care while identifying novel, effective treatments tailored to the individual.

Your gift will help people dealing with mental illness by supporting our leading-edge care, top-notch training, and innovative research.

You can support our efforts to:

Provide the most precise treatment based on the latest science
Increase access to mental health care and decrease disparities
Innovate in training doctors and scientists
Develop new and better interventions and preventatives

Our faculty, researchers, and learners are transforming mental health care from every angle — improving how we diagnose, treat, and prevent mental illnesses of all kinds. Your support will change and save lives.

Giving Opportunities

Our Highest Priority

Psychiatry Annual Fund

Gifts are critical to our success in advancing leading edge research, providing innovative care and supporting future leaders in the clinic, classroom and laboratory for the benefit of those whose lives are affected by psychiatric illness.

Advance innovative research and care

Chairs Discovery Fund

This fund is a resource for the chair to help innovative ideas get off the ground. It provides faculty scientists early funding to collect enough data to demonstrate the promise and potential of their work as a basis to seek larger grants.

Support innovation

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Gift Fund

Gifts will support the most urgent priorities related to child and adolescent mental wellness – including early identification, effective interventions, and strategies that will increase access to care.

Support our children's mental health

Addiction Center Innovation Fund

The U-M Addiction Center leads cutting-edge research, education, and treatment to prevent addiction and promote recovery. Your support fuels innovative approaches that drive breakthroughs and accelerate life-saving advances.

Support leading-edge addiction research

Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund

The Prechter Bipolar Research Fund collects and maintains a repository of longitudinal clinical, genetic, and biological data to fuel collaborative research on the causes, prevention, and treatment of bipolar disorder.

Learn more about the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund

Make a gift to drive collaborative research

Psychiatry Education and Outreach Fund

Gifts will fund educational programming for patients and their families, community members, students, educators, healthcare providers, and others touched by mental illness and addiction disorders.

Sustain our educational programs

Donor support has a tremendous impact on the access to and delivery of care to youth and families, the patient and family experience, promoting innovation and cutting-edge treatments, continuing to foster excellent training, and development for our faculty, nurses and staff.

— Nasuh Malas, M.D., MPH

Associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics and director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School

Philanthropy News

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Philanthropy News

Cozad family supports mental health through Healing Reads

The Cozad family's quiet philanthropy boosts mental health at Michigan Medicine. Their Healing Reads program offers patients uplifting books to foster connections and hope.

Smiling portrait of Alvin Michaels, M.D.

Philanthropy News

Dr. Alvin B. and Aurelia E. Michaels Education Fund in Psychiatry

The Dr. Alvin B. and Aurelia E. Michaels Education Fund in Psychiatry brings leading mental health experts to U-M to share valuable insights with students, fellows, and faculty.

Medicine at Michigan

Taking Research and Care on the Road

A van gets converted into a speech lab

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Philanthropy News

Floor decals and child therapy toy kits add fun and function to our child psychotherapy clinic

Thanks to donor support, bright and vibrant floor decals make the psychiatry clinic warmer and more inviting for patients and families.

Paul Pfeiffer, M.D., and Susan Brown standing together and smiling at Pfeiffer's professorship inauguration. They are both wearing dress clothes and Pfeiffer is displaying his gold professorship medal in a small wooden case.

Philanthropy News

Susan Brown’s Mission to Improve and Save Lives

After losing two dear friends to suicide, Susan Brown led the effort to transform mental health care in the Kalamazoo community.

Medicine at Michigan

$10M from Tam Foundation

Gift will expand and harness the power of massive data to help bipolar patients

Partner With Us

We would be pleased to discuss your interests and goals — and the impact your gift can have. We can connect you with faculty and staff, identify where your help is most needed, and share how giving can provide personal satisfaction as well as financial and tax benefits.