Built off the successful Girl Scouts program (Healthy Futures), Building Healthy Futures will incorporate new programmatic elements designed to ensure that healthy habits for girls are developed, while also teaching about issues that impact their health and the...
This project builds upon a previous award from the Health Fund, which supported a year-round program to increase physical activity participation, improve nutrition behaviors, and promote greater engagement in social services for children with autism spectrum disorder...
This project will provide Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) training to parents, teachers, and behavioral health professionals and will support the implementation of five to seven sustainable, school-based, PCIT clinic sites in the Bay-Arenac Intermediate School...
The Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program at MSU partners with pediatric clinics, OBGYN clinics, and farmers’ markets to distribute fruit and vegetable prescriptions. This project will address the lack of information regarding utilization and effectiveness of the...
Motor skills At Playtime (MAP) is an evidence-based intervention designed to promote positive developmental health in preschoolers (3-5 years) who are at-risk for future health disparities, implemented by teachers during standard playtime at preschool centers....
This project will promote physical education teachers’ content knowledge, educational skills, and dispositions for implementing Quality Physical Education (QPE) in schools statewide, specifically to address the negative health impacts of physical inactivity for...
The Trauma Play Therapy (TP) training initiative will provide up to 75 Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC)-based clinicians with the tools to use this evidence-based model with child survivors of abuse and their non-offending caregivers. CAC clinicians will complete...
This project will enhance the one-to-one mentoring services at BBBS by integrating professional mentoring and therapeutic staff into a wrap-around service. The Therapeutic Mentoring Model will support an LMSW to assist in identifying youth with undiagnosed behavioral...
Pine Rest will form a multidisciplinary team approach for triaging patients and providing testing services that includes the utilization of psychometrists, and ensuring patients are matched to appropriate services with the right provider. Additionally, Pine Rest will...
