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Information on the Children's Foster Care program and becoming a Foster Parent.
Information about the Michigan law that requires certain information be made available to a woman who is seeking an abortion at least 24 hours prior to the abortion procedure.
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If you cannot afford child care, payment assistance is available.
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Our migrant program works with a number of organizations to provide services for Michigan’s migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
Low-income Households Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP)
A federal program which helps persons admitted into the U.S. as refugees to become self-sufficient after their arrival.
Universal caseload, or task-based processing, is a different way of handling public assistance cases.
The Michigan Domestic & Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board administers state and federal funding for domestic violence shelters and advocacy services, develops and recommends policy, and develops and provides technical assistance and training.
Information about injury and violence prevention programs in Michigan
Information on Safe Sleep for your baby, how to protect your baby's life.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' (MDHHS) Division of Environmental Health (DEH) uses the best available science to reduce, eliminate, or prevent harm from environmental, chemical, and physical hazards.
Resources and information to assist in assuring firearm safety for families in the state of Michigan.
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Home to an array of public health programs, initiatives and interventions aimed at improving the health and well-being of women, infants, families and communities.
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Information on the grant awarded for the State Innovation Model Proposal
Protect MiFamily -Title IV-E Waiver
Offers resources for agencies who operate the Weatherization Assistance Program in the state of Michigan
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Under a current Michigan statute, you must complete and print the Informed Consent Confirmation Form (Arabic | Spanish) at least 24 hours prior to the abortion procedure. Please be sure to present this form to your physician or a qualified person assisting your physician. This is the only way to legally verify you have reviewed the required information online.
The statute currently requires that MDHHS make specific information available to abortion providers and their patients. MDHHS does not necessarily endorse all the information it is required to make available under this statute. You may review the following information by selecting the links below. When you are ready to move on, click "Finish."
A Michigan statute currently makes it illegal to coerce a woman to have an abortion.
Other Michigan statutes currently require all abortion providers to ask any woman seeking an abortion if she has been coerced to have the abortion against her will. You will be asked whether you are being coerced to have an abortion at your first visit to the doctor’s office or clinic for an abortion.
Help is available if you are being threatened or intimidated; are being physically, emotionally, or sexually harmed; or feel afraid for any reason.
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
Michigan Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-855-VOICES4 (864-2374)
National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
A Michigan statute currently requires MDHHS to provide written summaries of the various medical procedures that may safely end a pregnancy.
Suction Curettage (D&C) or Vacuum Aspiration Abortion
A Michigan statute currently requires MDHHS to provide a description of these specific stages of gestational development. Note that fetuses may develop at different rates. The descriptions of fetal development are not intended to be complete.
Fetal development descriptions and illustrations (Arabic | Spanish)
A Michigan statute requires MDHHS to include a list of entities that provide free ultrasounds. MDHHS does not necessarily endorse the viewpoints of any particular provider, facility, or clinic included in this list (Arabic | Spanish) or the information and services they might provide. Some entities listed may not be licensed health care facilities and/or capable of providing care consistent with accepted clinical standards and evidence-based medicine.
Michigan statutory law requires MDHHS to make available a prenatal care and parenting information pamphlet. (Arabic | Spanish)