Adult Well-Being Services

Adult Well-Being Services will be conducting "Healthy Together Support Groups".  This initiative is targeted at adults age 50 and older, primarily African American, living in the city of Detroit.  The proposed activities seek to improve the overall health of participants through reduction/control of their previously out-of -control hypertension.  Participants in the program will demonstrate increased knowledge of hypertension management and increased health-seeking behavior. 

Arab American Chaldean Council

The Arab American and Chaldean Council will implement a Cancer Health Communication Program in Southeastern Michigan.  The program will target adult male and female members with information about cancer, its impact in the Arab/Chaldean population and early detection measures available through appropriate screenings.  The program will develop a culturally congruent communications campaign and offer individual counseling. 

Genessee County Health Department

The Greater Flint Lead Safe Children Program (GFLSC) in collaboration with the Flint Odyssey House, Inc. will target a particular zip code designated by MDCH as high risk for lead poisoning and also home to the largest concentration of African American children in Flint.  The funded program will seek to increase the proportion of children under the age of 6 who are tested for lead.  This will be accomplished through an outreach and education campaign to all occupied households and physician offices within the targeted zip code.  The program will also create a local childhood lead poisoning prevention coalition.  We are especially pleased to announce that with this program we have partnered with the Medicaid program to ensure that every child who needs to be tested will have the opportunity to be.

Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Tribe

The Huron Potawatomi Tribe will implement the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) into its Tribal community.  The Tribe's health services offer community-based health care throughout a seven county service area located in southwest Michigan.  The funded intervention is aimed at reducing the rising prevalence rate of type-2 diabetes within the population.  An evidence-based lifestyle change program will be utilized, which combats obesity and sedentary lifestyle, commonly found in the tribe. The two major participant goals to be achieved through the program are a minimum 7% reduction in weight, and a minimum of 150 minutes of physical activity per week.

Oakland Livingston Human Service Agency

This agency, in partnership with Healthy Start, is being funded for a program to reduce infant mortality.  This initiative will focus on African American mothers in Pontiac, Michigan who are experiencing first time or subsequent pregnancies.  The healthy start model will be utilized, which has already been research validated as a prevention model.  The funding for this project will help to enhance the existing initiative to serve an additional 30 families.  We are also pleased to announce that this project will receive supplementary funds from the WIC program.

Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital

The Comprehensive Asthma Program (CAP) is one of the strategies that Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital of Ypsilanti, MI has utilized to eliminate the pediatric asthma crisis in the country.  CAP utilizes the American Lung Association's Open Airways for Schools and risk prevention framework that includes the community, school, family and the individual.  The funding for this program will allow for expansion to high-risk schools within the zip codes demonstrating the highest rate of ER utilization and admissions for asthma.  The program focuses on schools within the Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor area.

St. John Community Health Investment Corp.

St. John Community Health will be establishing the "S.T.E.P. on Diabetes" (Screening, Testing, and Evaluation for Prevention), which is targeted to African American residents in northwest and northeast Detroit as well as southern Southfield.  The overall goals of the project are 1) Identify African Americans in the target population with risk factors for developing diabetes; 2) Provide education programs to decrease risks and increase healthy lifestyles; 3) Follow-up with identified pre-diabetes to monitor risks; 4) Utilize lay people and church members to provide healthy lifestyle programs. 

Tomorrow's Child/ Michigan SIDS, Inc.

The funding of Tomorrow's Child/Michigan SIDS will implement a systems change at Henry Ford Hospital to assure that the safe sleep message is consistently and permanently reaching African American mother's in Detroit.  This project will close the circle (DMS and St. John were previously funded and successful) to teaching infant safe sleep among the three major health systems in the City of Detroit.  This project will seek to reduce infant mortality, specifically, SIDS and sudden infant deaths related to sleep position and sleep environment. 

YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids

The "Healthy U" Program put on by the Greater Grand Rapids YMCA provides social and behavioral interventions for African American females ages 6-11 and Latino males ages 6-11.  The funding of this program will expand the existing program, which currently services 1,000 youths, to serve an additional 600.  "Healthy U" seeks to 1) increase the knowledge and understanding of the benefits of physical activity, good nutrition, and the application of healthy lifestyle habits; 2) increase levels of physical activity and skill development; 3) develop healthier eating habits consisting of at least 3 fruits or vegetables daily; and 4) increase the number of personal developmental assets that build the relationships, values, skills, and beliefs that young people need to avoid at-risk behaviors.