Learn about Federal changes to Medicaid and Food Assistance Programs..
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.
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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.
Information, sources of data and resources to support Firearm Injury Prevention efforts across the state of Michigan.
Medical Resources for Child Protection
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Adult Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Services
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Multicultural Health
Prevention of diseases & conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many others.
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Watch Project Firstline's education videos to learn about different infection control topics, such as respiratory droplet basics and safe use of multi-dose vials.
Respiratory Droplet Basics
Multi Dose Vial
Ventilation and Infection Control in Healthcare
Project Firstline Inside Infection Control Series
Check out these videos with CDC’s Dr. Abby Carlson to learn the basic ideas behind infection control, how they work to prevent COVID-19, and how using infection control actions while you’re at work can protect you, your patients, your coworkers and your community.
Episode 1:
What’s the Goal of Infection Control?
Episode 2:
Sars-Cov-2? Covid-19? What’s the Difference?
Episode 3:
What’s a Virus?
Episode 4:
What’s a Respiratory Droplet? Why Does it Matter?
Episode 5:
How do Viruses Make You Sick?
Episode 6:
How Do Viruses Spread From Surfaces To People?
Episode 7:
How does COVID-19 spread? A Review
Episode 8a:
How Do I Safely Use a Multi-Dose Vaccine Vial? Part 1
Episode 8b:
How Do I Safely Use a Multi-Dose Vaccine Vial? Part 2
Episode 9:
What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
Episode 10:
Why is Eye Protection Recommended for COVID-19?
Episode 11:
Why are Gloves Recommended for COVID-19?
Episode 12:
Why are Gowns Recommended for COVID-19?
Episode 13:
What is a Respirator?
Episode 14:
What is an N95?
Episode 15:
How Do I Test the Seal on my N95?
Episode 16:
Cleaning? Disinfection? What is the Difference?
Episode 17:
What is Ventilation?
Episode 18:
Why Does Ventilation Matter?
Episode 19:
What Do New COVID-19 Strains Mean for Infection Control?
Episode 20:
Why Do Cleaning and Disinfection Matter in Healthcare?
Episode 21:
Do We Really Have to Talk About Hand Hygiene? Again? Yes!
Episode 22:
Why Does Contact Time Matter for Disinfection?
Episode 23:
What is Source Control?
Episode 24:
How Can COVID-19 Spread When You Don’t Feel Sick?
Inside Infection Control Videos can also be viewed with subtitles in Bengali, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hmong, Samoan, and Tongan.
Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP)