Developing Sustainable Behavioral Workforce Stability

This planning grant will include four key deliverables including a research and quantitative analysis component, stakeholder engagement including regional meetings and focus groups along with key informant interviews, plan development with a list of key strategies,...

Strengthening Systems of Support (S3) for LGBTQ+ Students

This grant builds upon a 2018 SPEI grant and will take what was learned from the first project and incorporate feedback from student and school administration participants to build it into a sustainable model for the future. The project includes expansion into rural...

Add Race/Ethnicity Data to MDHHS Master Person Index

This project will add Race and Ethnicity data to the MDHHS Master Person Index, which links and matches data across multiple MDHHS systems and programs (including Bridges, MiBridges, CHAMPS, and MCIR). This will enrich their data analytics processes across the MDHHS...

Accelerating Health Equity through Quality Improvement

This initiative will develop and pilot a process for health systems to collect race, ethnicity, and language (REaL) data to identify disparities, gaps in care, and to adopt policies that improve access to care for all populations.

Improving Access & Use of HCBS by Addressing Health Equity

This project will aim to increase the use of home and community-based services (HCBS) by disparate populations by analyzing Medicaid data to identify racial or ethnic disparities in the type of services offered to individuals who are receiving services, as well as...

Strategic Alignment Planning between MDHHS and MSP

The primary outcome of this planning grant is to identify a plan to: reduce the number of crimes committed, increase accessibility to human service support, and improve community relations in three identified communities that have a large population of people of color...

Automating Medicaid for Incarcerated Beneficiaries

This project will streamline and automate the process of data sharing between MDHHS Medicaid and jails. Through this new data-sharing mechanism, Medicaid benefits will be suspended on the same day someone becomes incarcerated and benefits will begin again the very...

Hospital Engagement Addiction Resources Team (HEART)

This project will result in sustaining culture change to better address the treatment needs of people with substance use disorder (SUD) beginning at the hospital. Building on a model in Kent Country, this project will support hospitals to implement a replicable...

Integrating Cancer Screening Referrals into MI Bridges

The MI Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Navigation Program (BC3NP) will collaborate with state government partners to develop and integrate a system in MI Bridges to identify and refer women to the BC3NP. This collaborative project will accomplish three objectives:...

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