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.
Information, sources of data and resources to support Firearm Injury Prevention efforts across 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.
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The Family Psycho-Education (FPE) subcommittee began its work in the fall of 2004. Membership includes representatives from the Practices Improvement Steering Committee, PIHPs that are implementing FPE, the University of Michigan, and consumers.
Family Psychoeducation (FPE) provides mental health consumers and families with education about what mental illness is and is not, how mental illnesses are treated and what a consumer or family member can do to cope with mental illness. FPE teaches how to make the most of available mental health and physical health services and engenders hope in consumers-in place of desperation and demoralization for continued recovery when under stress. Common issues addressed through FPE include participation in outpatient programs, understanding prescribed medication, dealing with alcohol or other drug abuse, and managing symptoms of mental illness that affect the consumer. Tools for problem solving are taught and learned so people who have symptoms of mental illness can learn to take better control of the symptoms and move forward to achieve their hopes and dreams. FPE is a long-term treatment model. Increasingly sophisticated coping skills for handling problems posed by mental illness are taught and learned. Consumer, family and practitioner work together to support recovery. FPE respects and incorporates individual, family and cultural perspectives.
FPE services in Michigan have been implemented as an evidence-based practice (EBP) under our federal community mental health block grant consistent with the federal Substance Abuse Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA) FPE toolkit. FPE has over 20 years of controlled research that supports the efficacy and effectiveness in reducing psychiatric hospitalizations, increasing consumer employment and/or return to formal education and cost reductions. FPE programs follow the McFarlane model with regard to consumer recruitment and joining activities, FPE facilitator's role, content of FPE sessions and other aspects of this proven method of intervention. Anecdotal evidence in Michigan shows that the model has also helped to develop more collaborative relationships with family and consumer advocacy groups. In fiscal year 2010, all PHIPs will include FPE as a part of the service array.More Information regarding the FPE model can be found at: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/cmhs/communitysupport/toolkits/cooccurring/default.asp.
Multi-Family Groups and the Treatment of Severe Psychiatric Disorders (William R. McFarland, Gilford Press 2002).