This project aims to provide culturally competent, evidence-based behavioral health prevention interventions to American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth and their families. AI/AN populations in Michigan have the highest prevalence of substance use disorders, often...
The goal of this program is to improve service delivery in the MI Choice Waiver program—the Medicaid-funded home and community-based program that serves nursing home eligible patients at home—by introducing three evidence-based approaches to care. Through these...
This project will support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training for the Thome and Huron Valley PACE programs in order to expand their DEI structures, expand participation in their DEI committee to all levels of the organization, and build trust within the...
This project builds on a 2020 capacity building project where Focus:HOPE conducted an in-depth, stakeholder-driven application design process for a volunteer management system. This request will support the system build-out and implementation, including upgrading IT...
This project aims to develop a Southeast Michigan based collaborative to improve healthcare for older adults, focusing on virtual care quality and access. The partners will develop a virtual care geriatric family medicine curriculum to enhance primary care delivery...
This planning grant will provide methods and new tools to educate health care professionals to identify, prevent, and intervene in financial exploitation of older adults. Wayne State University will identify ways to integrate existing tools within an electronic...
This project will improve access to behavioral health and primary care services among low-income, underserved school-aged children and adolescents in Detroit and rural areas of southeast Michigan, using a mixed model of school-based and telehealth services delivery....
This grant was awarded as part of the Rapid Response: Safety Net Telehealth Initiative, a collaborative funding opportunity sponsored by the Health Fund, the Ethel and James Flinn Foundation, the Metro Health Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and the...
Detroit Public Television (DPTV) is requesting support to engage parents as teachers and role models for their children so they can take an active role in building healthy habits around nutrition, sleep, and physical activity. The PBS Healthy Kids: Preschool...
