This funding will allow Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance (MiCHWA) to create two playbooks to address organizational needs identified during their board retreat in 2021. The first playbook will focus on implementing a membership structure that supports...
This project will support training for community health workers at neighborhood-based organizations in Detroit and improve coordination among those organizations to better serve older adults. Community health workers will be trained on aging-related topics and...
This project will address racial disparities between Black and White infants by linking families to resources that address the social, material, and medical needs of pregnant women and parenting families in collaboration with local maternal and infant health service...
The Positive Steps Together Program will reduce stigma and remove barriers to treatment by employing a peer recovery coach to work directly with women in public health programs. The program offers support and resources to women who have been diagnosed with SUD and may...
This initiative will leverage the capacity of an existing state-community-university partnership team to develop and deploy digital behavioral health training modules, with a specific focus on older adults, designed for lay community health workers. High-quality...
Henry Ford Hamtramck Medical Center will pilot an innovative community health worker (CHW) model to improve its existing behavioral health integration and collaborative care model. Henry Ford will develop an expanded model of care within the integrated care team,...
HealthyOne is an intensive, neighborhood tailored, infant mortality focused model, that will address physical and mental health in the highest need neighborhoods of Superior Township. These neighborhoods are primarily comprised of low-income single women and children...
The University of Michigan and community partners from the Michigan Community Health Worker Alliance and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services will develop a series of digital educational modules on oral health for community health workers (CHWs) and...
Region VII Area Agency on Aging will design a new reimbursable service to provide preventative health care and pharmacy benefits to home-bound older adults in rural areas who do not have adequate access to a primary care physician and may rely on emergency rooms for...
