“I just didn’t want to see teachers have to pay for things out of their own pockets,” Angee McCormick McCormick said. That's why she scaled up a project she started at Parkwood Elementary to cover the whole school district. The KPS Supply Closet.
Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Michigan Fitness Foundation launched a new YouTube-based learning platform that enlists statewide partners to produce short videos that inspire healthier living.
Thanks to new findings, new funding, and a new focus on mental health, Michigan’s schools are expanding behavioral health services.
The Native American Heritage Fund is becoming a model that the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi would like to see being used to promote positive relationships for more Native American Tribes.
As Flint kids begin online-only schooling, opportunities for physical exercise and nutrition education will be scarce. But a team of Crim Fitness Foundation staffers is working to address that by bringing the Crim’s Nutrition Program (CrimFit) out of the classroom and into families' homes.
The Methodist Children's Home Society runs Fresh Conversations program sessions at community centers and other sites in Detroit, with the goal of helping seniors change their diet and fitness routines to curtail chronic diseases and promote healthy aging.
In the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine is developing antibody testing in collaboration with a Kalamazoo-based company, IONTOX.
Presenting a program called PE-Nut in classrooms, the foundation uses a whole-school approach to motivate students, parents, and educators to eat healthier and be physically active.
Kalamazoo Public School students without internet service at home are likely to fall behind in their school work. Now they can borrow an internet hot spot.
Do police officers have a role in Kalamazoo Public Schools? The question is up for debate as a grassroots organization demands that officers must go.
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