“We’re just residents. We’re trying to make it easier for everyday residents, like us, just to make their communities more successful,” says Kathy Temple, executive director of The Time is Now Douglass Redevelopment Corp.
“We're a finely-tuned machine if you ask me, and we're only gonna get better,” says Erskin Mitchell, founder of Successful Inc.
A new Michigan project is engaging community-based organizations to gather information on, and develop solutions to, disparities in ER follow-up care.
In our community, 61% of children under the age of 18 live in poverty," says Lisa Johanon, executive director of Central Detroit Christian CDC. "We do affordable housing so kids have a safe, stable place to live, and so they're not uprooted from their home five times during the school year. We're raising up a community of kids whose outcomes aren't dictated by their zip code."
Recovery communities support a continuum of care by providing detox services, residential treatment, outpatient services, recovery supports, housing, and more.
In her new role leading Michigan Nonprofit Association, Kelley Kuhn talks the need for funding, her team's efforts to increase support for BIPOC leaders, especially, what organizations are carrying forward in the new normal, and a desire for a seat at the table. "There's this amazing infrastructure in the sector, that if leveraged," she says, "is efficient, effective, and understands the community, and its needs."
This article is the second in a two-part series about food policy councils and how SNAP-Ed can help to inform that work.
"Nationally, restorative justice has shown to cut recidivism rates by half," says Germaine Smith, assistant director of the Dispute Resolution Center in Washtenaw County. "It’s extremely successful because we get to the root of the trauma, or suffering, that brought everybody to that moment. The process goes deep, to consider how this harm impacts both individuals' lives. This is heart work, not head work."
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