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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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Information is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan citizens.
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September 28, 2010
LANSING - A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that state and local health departments have made significant progress toward building and strengthening the nation's public health emergency preparedness and response capabilities.
The report, Public Health Preparedness: Strengthening the Nation's Emergency Response State by State, presents data on a broad range of preparedness and response activities taking place at state and local health departments across the nation. Being prepared to prevent, respond to, and recover from all types of public health threats - such as disease outbreaks, chemical releases, or natural disasters - requires that public health departments improve their capabilities in surveillance and epidemiology, laboratories, and response readiness.
Accomplishments highlighted in the report for the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) include:
- All 9 Laboratory Response Network (LRN) biological laboratories in Michigan could test for specific biological agents. The laboratories passed 9 out of 9 proficiency tests to evaluate their abilities to receive, test, and report on one or more suspected biological agents to CDC.
- The MDCH Bureau of Laboratories, Division of Chemistry and Toxicology has the capability to respond when the public is exposed to chemical agents. The laboratory successfully demonstrated proficiency in 6 out of 6 core methods for rapidly detecting and measuring certain chemical agents that can cause severe health effects.
- The MDCH Bureau of Epidemiology has a 24/7 reporting capacity system that could receive urgent disease reports at any time.
- The Office of Public Health Preparedness received a score of 100 out of 100 from CDC for its plans to receive stage, distribute, and dispense medical assets received from CDC's Strategic National Stockpile or other sources. (Note: a score of 69 or higher was acceptable.)
- To improve their readiness to respond, the Office of Public Health Preparedness activated its Community Health Emergency Coordination Center (CHECC) as part of an exercise 4 times, and staff reported 4 out of 4 times to the CHECC within the target time of 2.5 hours.
- The Office of Public Health Preparedness assessed their response and developed 4 after action reports following the exercises and the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic with improvement plans to maximize their capabilities.
Public health threats are always present, whether caused by natural, accidental, or intentional means. Incidents such as the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic and other disease outbreaks and natural disasters that have occurred recently underscore the importance of communities being prepared for all types of hazards. The 2010 CDC report indicates that the surge in effort needed to respond to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic placed an increased strain on a public health system already weakened by workforce shortages and budget shortfalls. Preparing adequately for future outbreaks - and other public health emergencies that are inevitable and may occur simultaneously - requires predictable and adequate long-term funding to sustain and improve the public health infrastructure, staffing, and training.
The report and state specific information for Michigan is available on CDC's Web site at http://emergency.cdc.gov/publications/2010phprep.