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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.
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Programs for healthy children & families, including immunization, lead poisoning prevention, prenatal smoking cessation, and many others.
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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.
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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.
Information, sources of data and resources to support Firearm Injury Prevention efforts across the state of Michigan.
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Serves as liaison and provides funding to Michigan’s 45 local health departments.
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Offers resources for agencies who operate the Weatherization Assistance Program in the state of Michigan
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2026 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit - Website is now LIVE! www.miharmreductionsummit.com
Questions? Contact the MDHHS Harm Reduction and Viral Hepatitis Prevention Unit at MDHHS-SyringeAccess@Michigan.gov.
2025 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
Would like to extend its sincerest 'Thank you!' to the planning committee, speakers, attendees, mobile units, exhibitors, Event Guarde and the Lansing Center. The 2025 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit was a 2 day in-person event held in Lansing June 17-18th, 2025.
2024 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' 2024 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit was a one day in-person event held in Lansing on June 12th, 2024.
2024 Summit Agenda2023 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services was proud to welcome over 400 attendees both virtually and in-person at the Lansing Center May 16-17, 2023. Attendees had the opportunity to network and tour four syringe services program mobile units from the Grand Rapids Red Project, ACCESS, Chippewa County Health Department, and HARM:LESS.
Summit Recordings:
Welcome Smudging and Drum Ceremony
U.S. Housing System – Addressing Stigma and Harmful Policies
2022 Virtual Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
The 2022 Virtual Michigan Harm Reduction Summit was held from May 17 - May 19, 2022.
Summit Recordings:
2021 Virtual Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
Supplemental Materials:
2020 Virtual Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
2019 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit
The MDHHS Viral Hepatitis Unit hosted its first-ever 2019 Michigan Harm Reduction Summit at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Lansing on April 2, 2019. Approximately 300 professionals from across Michigan gathered to learn strategies for curbing the opioid epidemic. There was a diverse representation of summit attendees, including state and local health departments, public safety, health centers and medical professionals, universities, community-based organizations, community mental health, and more.
Topics included syringe access 101, best practices for syringe services program implementation, harm reduction strategies for reducing the transmission of infectious diseases related to injection drug use, overdose prevention, naloxone distribution, and stigma and cultural competency.
Attendees had the opportunity to network and tour two syringe service program mobile units from the Grand Rapids Red Project and Chippewa County Health Department's Safe X-Change Program.
Summit Handouts