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New project aims to increase health literacy among Southeast Michigan’s older adults
A new project called "The Power of Understanding" uses proven health literacy tools to empower participants to become engaged as advocates for their own health.
Con el sonido del trueno: Estruendo pretende salvar vidas
Para los fundadores de un grupo con el nombre Estruendo significa crear un gran impacto y eso es lo que están tratando de hacer para los jóvenes de habla hispana que viven aislamiento y pensamientos suicidas.
Voices of Youth: How to be better at recycling household waste
Recycling continues to become a more normalized part of the daily routine in many households, but most people don’t know what happens to the items they put in their recycling carts after waste haulers take them away.
Michigan health providers work to reverse falling childhood vaccination rates in pandemic’s wake
Michigan health officials are sounding the alarm that childhood vaccination rates for diseases like measles, chickenpox, and polio have yet to rebound from their slump during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Michigan schools expand mental health services in wake of Oxford school shooting
Oxford Community Schools have introduced a host of new mental health supports – even as the state of Michigan itself prepares to make an unprecedented investment in school-based mental health services.
Reducing medical debt church by church
RIP Medical Debt was established to pay off medical debt for millions of people in the United States and it has a goal to wipe out $4 million in Michigan medical debt by November.
Major expansion coming for program that offers schools “10 Cents a Meal” to serve Michigan produce
The budget for the state of Michigan's 10 Cents a Meal has more than doubled each of the past two years, with $9.3 million available in the coming fiscal year to help schools purchase local fruits, vegetables, and legumes.
Many happy returns: GPS ID bracelets help Michiganders living with dementia find their way home
A new collaboration in Calhoun County has helped 135 missing people with dementia return safely home – and made life easier for their caregivers, local law enforcement, and health care providers.
Voices of Youth: Transportation, a photo story
From walking, to biking, to taking the bus the ways of getting around Kalamazoo are many. Here are some scenes from the street as seen by a Voices of Youth Program participant.
New project aims to increase health literacy among Southeast Michigan’s older adults
A new project called "The Power of Understanding" uses proven health literacy tools to empower participants to become engaged as advocates for their own health.
Con el sonido del trueno: Estruendo pretende salvar vidas
Para los fundadores de un grupo con el nombre Estruendo significa crear un gran impacto y eso es lo que están tratando de hacer para los jóvenes de habla hispana que viven aislamiento y pensamientos suicidas.
Voices of Youth: How to be better at recycling household waste
Recycling continues to become a more normalized part of the daily routine in many households, but most people don’t know what happens to the items they put in their recycling carts after waste haulers take them away.
Michigan health providers work to reverse falling childhood vaccination rates in pandemic’s wake
Michigan health officials are sounding the alarm that childhood vaccination rates for diseases like measles, chickenpox, and polio have yet to rebound from their slump during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Michigan schools expand mental health services in wake of Oxford school shooting
Oxford Community Schools have introduced a host of new mental health supports – even as the state of Michigan itself prepares to make an unprecedented investment in school-based mental health services.
Reducing medical debt church by church
RIP Medical Debt was established to pay off medical debt for millions of people in the United States and it has a goal to wipe out $4 million in Michigan medical debt by November.
Major expansion coming for program that offers schools “10 Cents a Meal” to serve Michigan produce
The budget for the state of Michigan's 10 Cents a Meal has more than doubled each of the past two years, with $9.3 million available in the coming fiscal year to help schools purchase local fruits, vegetables, and legumes.
Many happy returns: GPS ID bracelets help Michiganders living with dementia find their way home
A new collaboration in Calhoun County has helped 135 missing people with dementia return safely home – and made life easier for their caregivers, local law enforcement, and health care providers.
Voices of Youth: Transportation, a photo story
From walking, to biking, to taking the bus the ways of getting around Kalamazoo are many. Here are some scenes from the street as seen by a Voices of Youth Program participant.
