Passport to Wellness

Feb 17, 2025

The Battle Creek Family YMCA will create a community platform to serve as a hub for youth-led wellness programming. Centered around the incentive-based Passport to Wellness, the platform will provide a menu of fitness opportunities and social responsibility activities...

Statewide Perinatal Prevention & Response: Regional Perinatal Quality Collaboratives

Feb 17, 2025

This grant will address the lack of infant mental health specialists and support the implementation of the High Touch-High Tech (HT2) program in Prosperity Regions 1 (the Upper Peninsula) and 6 (thumb area). The program incorporates an existing mobile application (the...

OCCOA Community Connect: Expansion of innovative “technology and aging” program to additional Michigan communities

Feb 17, 2025

Three communities will utilize CommunO2, a new application that centralizes a range of tools to meet the needs of older adults and reduce social isolation. The application prioritizes user safety and security, and enables users to livestream community and faith...

mHealth Dementia Project

Feb 17, 2025

This project will develop and launch an interactive, free mobile app to provide dementia-related illness resources for community organizations, providers, patients, and caregivers. This app will seamlessly connect individuals to medical providers, share current...

BusMe: An e-health Platform to Reduce Pediatric Health Disparities by Improving Public Transportation Access in Detroit

Feb 17, 2025

BusMe is a phone application that low-income patients and their health care providers can use to coordinate healthcare appointments with the schedules of public transportation options and thus help increase the number of patients who are able to keep their...

Real Time Nursing Home Quality Control

Feb 17, 2025

Wayne State University will develop and pilot the Nursing Home Checklist (NHC), an innovative mobile app, to improve outcomes related to the Five‐Star Quality Rating System used by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The app will be used by nurses and...

Developing Habits of Healthy Activity

Feb 17, 2025

This project will expand the Cadillac Area YMCA’s Youth Fit and Senior FIt programs to increase physical activity among children and older adults. Cadillac Area YMCA will create a mobile app that connects with personal fitness devices, allowing participants to...