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) Environmental Health Bureau (EHB) 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.
State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP)
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 on resources in your community and volunteer recruitment and training, and services provided at local DHS offices.
Information is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan citizens.
Equal Opportunity, Legal Base, Laws and Reporting Welfare Fraud information.
A variety of reports & statistics for programs and services.
Search is currently unavailable. Please try again later.
The web Browser you are currently using is unsupported, and some features of this site may not work as intended. Please update to a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox or Edge to experience all features Michigan.gov has to offer.
February 20, 2008
February 20, 2008
The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) continues to be a national leader in public health emergency preparedness according to the Public Health Emergency Preparedness report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Michigan scored top marks on the CDC report in the areas of detection and reporting of diseases, laboratory preparedness, and response capabilities. MDCH recently created the Drug Delivery and Resource Utilization Network (MEDDRUN) to bridge the gap between available medical resources through caches of medications pre-deployed around the state. In addition to receiving special recognition in the CDC report, MEDDRUN also received second place from the ASH Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in a national competition for innovative homeland-security based programs.
Since the reporting period (August 2005 to August 2006), MDCH has continued to make significant enhancements to state and local public health readiness programs that distribute medicines, promote effective and efficient coordination of response activities among response partners, and assure the provision of essential public health and health care services to the public in the event of a public health emergency.
In 2007, the CDC evaluated Michigan's readiness to deploy the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), which is a large quantity of medicine and medical supplies to protect the American public if there is a public health emergency (terrorist attack, flu outbreak, earthquake) severe enough to cause local supplies to run out. The CDC awarded Michigan one of the highest marks in the nation with a score of 95 percent for their SNS preparedness initiatives.
MDCH and the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) jointly developed and launched the Pandemic Influenza Toolkit for Educators. This online resource provides materials for pre-school, elementary, middle, and high schools, information on what Michigan and other states are doing to prepare, links to partners, and links to information on avian influenza. The Toolkit has earned a National Best Practice Award from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. The kit is free and available online at http://mdch.train.org/panflu/education.
MDCH and its public health emergency response partners train and regularly conduct exercises to test emergency response plans, procedures, and personnel. Response performance is evaluated and operational procedures are enhanced in a continuous effort to maintain the highest level of state readiness. Michigan is proud of the status of health preparedness and will continue to work to plan, train, and exercise programs statewide.