State of Health is a series about how Michigan communities are rising to address health challenges. Previous coverage examined health disparities and how they affect Michigan's children and seniors and integrated care and its potential to improve Michiganders' health. This series is made possible with funding from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund.
For more than a decade, Michigan advocacy groups and some legislators have been working to expand paid leave from work for Michiganders – and this year, their efforts are paying off in two major ways.
At two Youth Mentor Gardens, participating teens and their families work together to plant, weed, water, mulch, and harvest produce.
Efforts are underway to better coordinate efforts between produce prescription programs and to create more standardized funding mechanisms for them.
Since 2017, the Campus for Creative Aging has been offering a variety of innovative opportunities for older adults in Berrien, Van Buren, and Cass counties – and helping younger residents understand and respect their older neighbors.
A broad coalition of Michigan organizations has come together to address health disparities that affect Michigan's rapidly growing population of older adults.
Five Michigan organizations will receive federal support of about $1 million each to improve maternal and infant health in the state.
Several Michigan organizations are innovating ways to increase health care access for the state’s most vulnerable residents in their own communities.
The Metro Detroit-based Association of Chinese Americans is developing a training program to address the shortage of direct care workers equipped to serve older Chinese Americans in Southeast Michigan.
The Michigan Long Term Care Ombudsman Program improves quality of care and quality of life for people living in nursing homes, homes for the aged, and adult foster care homes.
Muskegon-based How YOU Birth Doula Services is working to improve outcomes for parents and babies by leveraging Michigan's recently added Medicaid coverage for doula services.
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