Behavioral health at home helps Muskegon-area older adults improve quality of life
Multiple organizations in the Muskegon area are bringing trained counselors to the homes of older adults who face mobility or transportation challenges.
State of Health
State of Health is a series about how communities and organizations are addressing Michigan's health challenges and concerns. This series is made possible with funding from a building coalition of funders, including Delta Dental Foundation and Michigan Health Endowment Fund.
Livability Labs bring Muskegon County leaders together to solve community challenges
An annual collaboration among a slew of cross-sector organizations and community members has created 15 teams working to develop solutions to community challenges in Muskegon County.
Michigan’s migrant farm workers face many health challenges, but help is available
Many of Michigan’s migrant farm workers risk injuries, illness, and chronic disease, which often go untreated. State and nonprofit programs are available to help.
Consultants empower child care providers to meet mental health needs of the youngest Michiganders
The Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation program sends trained early childhood consultants to daycare settings and preschools to help caregivers better meet children's needs.
Michigan’s nonprofit food clubs offer healthy foods at low costs to combat food insecurity
Food clubs are small nonprofit grocery stores that make healthy food available to low-income families at a truly affordable price.
Michigan’s regional health equity councils pursue long-term efforts to eliminate health disparities
Last year the state formed 11 regional councils to spend about a year addressing health disparities in underserved communities – and they're already set to continue their work beyond that period.
PODCAST: Building more dementia-friendly communities
Many people living with dementia don't feel valued or respected in their communities. But some activists in Michigan are working to change that by creating dementia-friendly communities, where the general public better understands dementia and people living with dementia have more opportunities to engage in public life.
Detroit program engages community members to democratically develop solutions to health disparities
An innovative initiative is chipping away at health disparities in Detroit’s Hope Village neighborhood by looking to community members as leaders and learners in their own lives.
PODCAST: Inside the rapidly expanding field of dementia research
One of the most frustrating and scary things about dementia is that we still know breathtakingly little about it. But the medical community in Michigan, as in the rest of the U.S., is currently working at unprecedented speed to change that.
Student volunteers relieve caregivers and build intergenerational friendships through new program
Students are connecting with, caring for, and learning from older adults through a new intergenerational program that also addresses Michigan’s caregiver shortage.
