With funding from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, the national nonprofit Generations United is bringing generations together to build communities that work better for all.
"We feel we are David going up against Goliath. Our need is greater than our current capacity, and our funding is limited," says Patrick Patterson, executive director at Blue Water Recovery Outreach Center. "Many people have turned to drugs and self-harm during these lonely months of isolation. We're here to offer our community hope, what everyone needs to push forward and be successful."
Covering five northern Michigan counties, Northwest Education Services (NES) nutrition educators use a community-based approach that recognizes the unique strengths and challenges of each community they serve.
Numerous Michiganders have struggled with problem gambling since online gambling was legalized in the state, but help is available.
DHD#10 uses a variety of evidence-based programs and approaches to create a broader culture of health through their policies, systems, and environmental change work.
The term "food apartheid" has increasingly supplanted "food desert" as a way to describe the conditions affecting urban and rural communities that lack access to healthy foods.
Genesee Intermediate School District and Crim Fitness Foundation are encouraging Genesee County residents to eat healthy and move more, while also addressing barriers to make healthy choices more accessible to county residents.
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