NE MI Healthy Food Project

This grant was supported under a collaborative funding opportunity led by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation. This project will focus on increasing access to nutritious food grown locally for children and seniors experiencing food insecurity in...

Healthy Eating & Nutrition Advocacy @ the Holland/Zeeland Food Club

This grant was supported under a collaborative funding opportunity led by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation. Community Action House will hire a nutrition health program coordinator to improve healthy eating among marginalized and low income service...

Bob-a-loo. Moving At-risk Children Toward a Healthy Path

This initiative aims to improve healthy lifestyle behaviors in at-risk preschool aged children from low-income families and communities of color in Ypsilanti. The project will use a previously developed movement-based program to increase physical activity among...

HealthyOne

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...

Health Care and Food Bank Partnership Initiative

The Health Care and Food Bank Partnership Initiative will strengthen the connection between health care and good nutrition by increasing access to healthy food for individuals struggling with food insecurity and improving health care providers’ awareness of the hunger...

Enhancing Michigan WIC for Rural Families

This project will equip rural Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) staff in dental professional health shortage areas with the education and tools necessary to support good oral health among their clients at an early age. By engaging WIC staff in the Brush! oral health...

A Systems-Level Approach to Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Through this grant, MPHI will develop a program to integrate care and services for pregnancy women and infants impacted by Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. The program will be piloted in Saginaw and Marquette counties; focus on prevention, screening, and coordinating...

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