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August 13, 2015
For Immediate Release: August 13, 2015
LANSING, Mich. – Families and children who need help on their path to self-sufficiency will benefit from a training held today attended by 280 staff members involved in the expanding the Pathways to Potential model that places state caseworkers in schools across Michigan.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services employees gathered for the meeting, which comes as the highly successful Pathways to Potential program prepares to expand into schools in at least 10 more counties during the upcoming school year. This expansion is in addition to the more than 200 existing Pathways schools already in 22 counties.
“Pathways staff members are learning today how to create meaningful and lasting partnerships in their own communities so they can provide better services to children and their families,” said Jean Ingersoll, program manager for Pathways to Potential within MDHHS. “They’re also finding out more about the root causes of student absenteeism and strategies for addressing attendance problems so that children can get a good education and be successful.”
Removing barriers to student absences is one of the main goals of Pathways in schools. The department created Pathways in 2012. This innovative approach to providing health and human services targets four other outcome areas in addition to attendance – education, health, safety and self-sufficiency. Chronic absenteeism dropped 37 percent in Pathways schools during the 2014-15 school year from the previous year.
Pathways caseworkers, known as success coaches, and other MDHHS employees work with partners to provide coordinated and accessible people-focused services in communities rather than asking clients to visit government offices. Pathways is a model that fits within Gov. Rick Snyder’s River of Opportunity to change the way government assists Michigan residents by meeting their unique needs so they can achieve success and self-sufficiency.
Today’s training featured presentations from national experts. It included workshops from the National Center for Community Schools, a New York-based organization that promotes community partnerships in schools to improve student success. MDHHS Director Nick Lyon also spoke to the Pathways employees.
The 10 additional counties that will have Pathways to Potential schools by the end of the upcoming school year are: Benzie, Berrien, Clare, Gladwin, Gogebic, Grand Traverse, Jackson, Kalkaska, Manistee and Ontonagon. The schools in these counties are still being identified and Pathways will be implemented in these new schools throughout the school year.
Pathways already has schools in the following counties: Bay, Calhoun, Genesee, Huron, Kalamazoo, Kent, Lapeer, Macomb, Mason, Mecosta, Midland, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oakland, Ogemaw, Ottawa, Roscommon, Saginaw, St Clair, Tuscola, Washtenaw and Wayne.
For more information about how Pathways to Potential is improving success and the lives of families in your area, visit www.michigan.gov/pathwaystopotential.
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