This project engages students who often have the highest health risk factors and gives them ownership over their own health and influences their school climate and health culture. Student Wellness Teams (SWT) consisting of fifth-to twelfth-grade students will...
In the 2020, the Health Fund awarded a planning grant to the University of Michigan (UM) to implement their interrupting Prolonged sitting with ACTivity (InPACT) program to address the negative health impacts associated with limited access to physical activity...
Through this project, CARE House of Oakland County (CARE House) will provide evidence-informed, county-wide training to mental health clinicians and professionals to understand problematic sexual behaviors (PSB) and to reverse learned behavior as well as mitigate the...
Holy Cross Services (HCS) will implement the Parent Partner program, a behavioral health intervention designed to help children in foster care reunify safely and more quickly with their families. The project will train parent partners, adults with lived experience as...
Henry ford health System (HFHS) will implement systems changes to streamline screening and automate referrals to further evaluation at the HFHS’s Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders (CADD) or other community providers. Based on successful system changes seen...
Brilliant Detroit will address the growing mental health crisis among vulnerable children and families in Detroit by piloting a resilience platform that will: 1.) build responsive relationships between children and families; 2.) reduce sources of stress; and 3.)...
Lansing School District is seeking support in addressing needs of school children and their families related to social determinants of health, wellbeing, and educational success by developing a coordinated system of care within the district to promote accessibility...
This project seeks to improve the behavioral health of low-income mothers with children between the ages of 0-5 who receive HeadStart services in rural Lenawee County, Michigan by expanding the Head Start program’s depression screening program and offering mothers an...
KConnect’s Prenatal to Third Grade Workgroup is seeking support to develop the infrastructure to obtain, display, and regularly update early childhood development data (communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem-solving, and personal-social) for Kent County and...
