This project promotes health equity and addresses accessibility issues for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families who reside in and around Detroit. This comprehensive year-round program will increase participation in physical activity, improve...
CATCH Global Foundation will work with statewide organizations and community implementation partners to expand CATCH programming across the state. CATCH fully integrates the Centers for Disease Control’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child model and is proven...
Kids Kicking Cancer will create a pilot program to provide adolescents who have battled cancer with ongoing access to life skills, education, continued medical care, counseling, and psycho-social support, to provide coping strategies as they move into remission. The...
Alpena Area Senior Citizens Council, Inc. will expand its programming to promote the health and well-being of adults who are 60 years and older living in Alpena County. The Empowered Movement Exercise Program (EMP) focuses on improving strength and balance to reduce...
The Chaldean Community Foundation (CCF) is requesting grant funding to launch its health and wellness fitness program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). The goals of the program are to improve the health and wellness of 50 unduplicated...
The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community will promote access to healthy foods through the Debweyendan (“believe in it”) Indigenous Gardens (DIGs) initiative which focuses on intergenerational learning about harvesting and sustaining traditional resources through...
This project will help schools maintain or boost delivery of physical education and health education curriculum in virtual learning or socially distant in-person learning environments.
Go Thrive! will expand MidMichigan Health Foundation’s Go Outside! program, which combats childhood obesity among rural, low-income children and families. This program will offer an 8-week course on nutrition, physical activity, goal setting, and stress...
The Dearborn Program for Inclusive Physical Exercise & Recreation Strategies (PIPERS) program will improve fitness and health among children with disabilities in the Dearborn area. This model will 1) instill sustained attitudinal and behavioral health changes by...
