Established to address COVID-19-related health disparities, the center has pivoted to address additional unique health needs in predominantly Black Benton Harbor.
April is National Poetry Month and Kalamazoo has more than its fair share of homegrown poets – which suits this year's Kalamazoo Poetry Festival theme of "The Garden." In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the festival takes place April 13 to 15, featuring both local and visiting poets, including Kzoo's own Pulitzer Prize-wining poet Diane Suess, Kansas Poet Laureate Traci Brimhall (WMU graduate), Hala Ayhan, and Kaveh Akbar, among others.
Young people bear brunt of the gun-violence epidemic but have no power of policymaking, no say in what resources are provided, or which way the limited support available is directed. This is the story from NowKalamazoo of a young man shot twice in 18 months and the search for help for his resulting trauma.
Hace aproximadamente 23 años, un grupo de profesionales del área de Kalamazoo inauguró el Centro de Evaluación de Trauma Infantil del Suroeste de Michigan en la Universidad de Western Michigan para evaluar a los niños traumatizados que no solo se ha convertido en el modelo para centros similares en Michigan y Colorado, sino que también ha producido un cambio en el estado. sistema de bienestar infantil y más allá.
Los talleres para hermanos brindan a los niños que tienen hermanos que viven con discapacidades la oportunidad de conectarse, compartir sus experiencias, hacer preguntas y ofrecer consejos.
As mental-health concerns for youth rise, behavioral health consultants provide onsite counseling services to students in schools across Calhoun County. The social workers there have a high level of expertise and experience in conditions such as stress, anxiety, grief, and depression.
In Marianne Joynt’s new role as mental health initiatives coordinator for the district, she’s able to go wherever support is needed for staff and students and put together plans to meet their needs as best she can.
About 23 years ago a group of Kalamazoo-area professionals launched the Southwest Michigan Child Trauma Assessment Center at Western Michigan University to assess traumatized children that has not only become the model for similar centers across Michigan and in Colorado but also has effected change in the state’s child-welfare system and beyond.
From a position with Downtown Kalamzoo, Inc. to working with the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, Beth McCann helped build up Kalamazoo's cultural image. In her new position as Executive Directory of Kalamazoo Neighborhood Housing Services, she is building community in a different way – through affordable housing. "We need, what, 7,000 housing units right now?" says McCann. "I can't build 7,000, but hopefully, I can make a dent."
Although Temple Grandin is a widely sought-after professor for animal science and veterinary colleges, she couldn’t get into veterinary school when she failed the math portion of the SAT. The educational system is screening out visual thinkers such as herself, Grandin says.
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