This project will support a community assessment of the Greater Grand Rapids area to identify the most vulnerable youth at-risk for, or in foster care, or who have been adopted, who do not have access to integrated behavioral and primary healthcare. The assessment...
This project will address housing and homelessness as risk-factors for child abuse and neglect through data-driven identification practices, establishing prioritization for more intensive services, housing, and care coordination.
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...
Orchards Children’s Services (Orchards) will implement the Healing in Wayne project to expand access to the evidence-based treatment model, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for children in foster care who experience trauma. EMDR is a...
Through this grant, Child and Family Charities (CFC) will be trained in the evidence-based Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) as a tool to help foster/adoptive and biological parents learn to connect to their child through a trauma-informed strength-based...
This project will explore innovative approaches to developing and disseminating electronic health records (EHR) for foster youth served by both public (state) and privately run child-caring agencies. Information garnered will provide a solid foundation for the...
This project will optimize the structure and delivery of behavioral health services to children and youth to promote growth, opportunity, and wellness. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services will identify opportunities for refinement in Medicaid-funded...
Building Resilience in Substance Abusing Families (BRISA) will create an integrated family model that addresses parental substance use and the underlying trauma related causes, while simultaneously building familial resiliency. This project will engage primarily...
This project will address the significant challenges women with accompanying children face in accessing and sustaining long-term residential substance abuse treatment and recovery by creating overnight residence availability for both mother and child. The...
