Michigan's Women, Infants & Children program, providing supplemental nutrition, breastfeeding information, and other resources for healthy mothers & babies.
Information on the Family Independence Program, State Disability Assistance, SSI, Refugee, and other cash assistance.
If you cannot afford child care, payment assistance is available.
Children's Special Health Care Services information and FAQ's.
Information on assistance with home repairs, heat and utility bills, relocation, home ownership, burials, home energy, and eligibility requirements.
Information on the Food Assistance Program, eligibility requirements, and other food resources.
Information about the health care programs available through Medicaid and how to qualify.
Our migrant program works with a number of organizations to provide services for Michigan’s migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
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.
Information on the Children's Protective Services Program, child abuse reporting procedures, and help for parents in caring for their children.
Information on adoption programs, adoption resources, locating birth parents and obtaining information from adoption records.
Information on Adult Protective Services, Independent Living Services, Adult Community Placement Services, and HIV/AIDS Support Services.
Information on child support services for participants and partners.
Programs for healthy children & families, including immunization, lead poisoning prevention, prenatal smoking cessation, and many others.
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.
Information on treatment and services for juvenile offenders, success stories, and more.
Child Welfare Medical and Behavioral Health Resources
MDHHS and partners support a continuum of prevention services. The continuum is inclusive of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention activities. Visit this page to learn more.
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.
The Division of Victim Services (DVS) provides a voice advocating for and responding to all victims of crime in Michigan. Learn more about DVS-funded programs and services, including Michigan’s 24/7, free, confidential, and anonymous domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines.
Medical Resources for Child Protection
Serves as liaison and provides funding to Michigan’s 45 local health departments.
Adult Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Services
Multicultural Health
Prevention of diseases & conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many others.
Information on communicable & chronic diseases.
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.
Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records
Boards and Commissions
Bridge Card Participation Information on Electronic Benefits for clients and businesses, lists of participating retailers and ATMs, and QUEST.
Provider Payments Information on the direct deposit of State of Michigan payments into a provider's bank account.
Information on How to Bid, Requests for Proposals, forms and publications, contractor rates, and manuals.
Information & resources for Community and Faith-Based partners
Information on DHS Applications and Forms grouped by category.
Health Care Providers
Licensing information for Adult Foster Care and Homes for the Aged, Child Day Care Facilities, Child Caring Institutions, Children's Foster Care Homes, Child Placing Agencies, Juvenile Court Operated Facilities and Children's or Adult Foster Care Camps.
Michigan Statewide Systems of Care
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
Information is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan citizens.
Information on resources in your community and volunteer recruitment and training, and services provided at local DHS offices.
Equal Opportunity, Legal Base, Laws and Reporting Welfare Fraud information.
A variety of reports & statistics for programs and services.
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EDRS Electronic Training and Resources
The Electronic Death Registration System (EDRS) has its own website dedicated to online training. The site includes video tutorials, web casts and FAQ sheets.
Go to the EDRS Online training site now.
Effective January 1, 2004
The State of Michigan developed a revised death certificate to be used for all deaths that occur on or after January 1, 2004. The revision was necessitated by a change to the national standard death certificate issued by the Centers for Disease Control. Michigan law, namely M.C.L. 333.2811, requires the national standard form be followed as nearly as possible.
Provided below are a sample a copy of the new form and three sets of instructions for completion, namely a set of detailed general instructions and specific instructions for physicians and for medical examiners. These instructions cover proper completion of these new forms along with other revisions designed to improve the registration process, particularly relative to review of the medical section.
General Instructions
Instructions for Funeral Directors
Instructions for Medical Examiners
Instructions for Physicians
A sample copy of the revised death certificate.
A listing of Michigan Place Names (for use in Item 8c. Unincorporated Places)
The following information provides a quick summary of nine key changes to this form.
Item 5. Name at Birth or Other Name Used for Personal Business
This field is intended to better identify the decedent to facilitate handling affairs after death and to create a better historical record. Entering alias names in this field is appropriate as is entering a name at birth for women who have changed their name after marriage. This is not a required field, but can be used to better document the decedent's alternate names when appropriate.
Item 8c. Unincorporated Places
With the current certificate listing an unincorporated place as the place of residence for the decedent can result in registration problems and can interfere with the families wishes for listing their residence at death. Adding a separate check box to indicate an unincorporated place will help avoid this problem. A listing of Michigan places and their incorporation status is enclosed and will be available through the state Web site to assist in clarifying this issue.
Item 11. Education
The format for reporting the decedent's education has been revised to require reporting years of school completed for less than high school and degrees earned for high school or higher levels of education. Entering the standard initials for a degree are appropriate, i.e. BA, MS or MD.
Item 13b. Hispanic Origin
While national standards require the collection of Hispanic ethnicity, Michigan continues to prefer an open ancestry item. Unfortunately, when the ancestry of the decedent is not known or is reported as American, their Hispanic status is lost. This item will compliment the ancestry item and eliminate the current "unknown" Hispanic problem.
Item 21b. Relationship
This item is intended to record the relationship of the informant to the decedent, as in husband, wife, son, daughter, etc.
Item 28c. Time Pronounced Dead
This item compliments the item actual time of death, item 28a, which has been collected historically.
Item 37. Did Tobacco Use Contribute to Death?
A medical determination on whether tobacco use played a role in this death. This item was added to the national standard form to provide a better opportunity for documenting when a death is tobacco related.
Item 38. If Female: Pregnancy Status
An item to insure better identification of all pregnancy related deaths as part of the ongoing national monitoring of maternal deaths.
Item 41f. If Transportation Injury
An item to report the involvement of the decedent in a car or other vehicle crashes. Indicate whether a driver, a passenger, a pedestrian or the like. This item was added to the national standard form to enable more accurate US coding of vehicular deaths following new international guidelines.