In the 2020 Nutrition & Healthy Lifestyles cohort, the Health Fund awarded a pilot grant to the Food BankCouncil of Michigan in which patients of Grace Health Federally-Qualified Health Center (FQHC) were offered a free, bi-weekly grocery box and one-on-one...
Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities (LAHC) will establish a hub of health and wellness services in Dearborn to provide nutrition education, physical wellness, and cooking programming. Dearborn is home to one of the largest concentration of immigrants and...
Building on a successful planning grant awarded by the Health Fund in 2021, Residents in Action (RiA) will continue to address food insecurity among Black families in Jackson. RiA is a Black-led organization that has demonstrated success in achieving systems change...
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...
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...
The Michigan State University Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions aims to address the need for disaggregated health outcome for Flint and Genesee County through the creation of a Health Equity Report Card (HERC), in response to the 2021 declaration of racism as a...
Through this project, Beaumont Health Foundation (Beaumont) and Michigan Medicine will improve pharmacological therapy and mental health support for pregnant women in the antepartum period, during delivery, and upto a year postpartum with the goal of preventing or...
This project is a collaboration between Packard Health and the Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) project to plan, identify and develop a network of community organizations committed to services and coordinated care models that address the...
The purpose of the Black-led Mental Health Pilot Program is to improve access to mental health care among Black Michiganders. The program will provide grants to Black-led community-based organizations (CBOs) to help them build partnerships with behavioral health and...
