Coverage of hospitals, clinics, public health, and mental health developments and initiatives.
With a focus on the city’s often-overlooked neighborhoods, a nonprofit collaboration is taking a personal approach to providing training, resources, and support for Detroit’s entrepreneurs, witnessing the ripple effect that investment creates.
Beyond the color-coded counties and line graphs we've all seen, data sharing has helped Michigan's many health providers better understand and respond to the pandemic.
Relaxed state and federal regulations have allowed providers to offer more services online, resulting in increased engagement and opening the door to destigmatizing mental health.
During these trying times, many Detroit businesses have been hit hard by issues related to COVID-19. Thankfully, some are finding support from local community development organizations.
In the past five years, Detroit has seen an 88% increase in women-owned businesses — the largest growth rate of metropolitan areas across the U.S. LaShonda Sims is part of that cohort, striking out with her daughter and cousins to launch a beauty company in 2017, and now, it's that family support that's helping them face down COVID setbacks.
The mental health toll on the nonprofit sector’s front line workers in Michigan has been significant.
In 2015, Detroit Abloom started as a way to show how cut flower farming can transform vacant land. Today its founders are looking to expand on its mission of cultivating a healthy relationship between the community and the planet by growing into a "holistic wellness center without walls."
Michigan Fitness Foundation staff are leading a revision of the K-12 Exemplary Physical Education Curriculum (EPEC), which aims to drive kids' physical literacy journeys in the same way that math class is the driver of numeracy.
Phil Knight might just be Detroit's last neighborhood mechanic. Since he opened his own auto shop in 1998, he has seen his share of changes in the community, but still wants to keep his business small and prices fair.
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.
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