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) Division of Environmental Health (DEH) 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
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 is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan citizens.
Information on resources in your community and volunteer recruitment and training, and services provided at local DHS offices.
Equal Opportunity, Legal Base, Laws and Reporting Welfare Fraud information.
A variety of reports & statistics for programs and services.
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Note: This website contains general information about the EMBARC study. If you received an invitation letter to join EMBARC, use the QR code or web address listed in your invitation letter to access your personal EMBARC study page.
The goal of the Environmental Mediators of Birth-defects and Relation to Contaminants (EMBARC) study is to learn if per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) might be linked to folate-sensitive birth defects.
Parents of young children are randomly selected to join EMBARC. Adults, over the age of 18, who are the parent or legal guardian of a child born recently in Michigan, are eligible. These parents receive invitation packets in the mail.
EMBARC is a case-control study. This means participants are selected in advance based on the outcome that researchers are studying. For EMBARC, the outcome being studied is folate-sensitive birth defects.
You can learn more about folate, and folate-sensitive birth defects at the CDC's folic acid page.
Chemicals in the environment might be linked with certain birth outcomes, including folate-sensitive birth defects. EMBARC seeks to understand if newborn levels of one specific class of environmental chemicals, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), are related to these birth defects.
Learn more about PFAS by visiting Michigan’s PFAS and Health page.
Contact EMBARC Study Staff by calling our hotline number 844-464-7327 or by emailing the study email address at MDHHS-EMBARC@michigan.gov.
Randomly selected parents or legal guardians of children born in Michigan will be invited to join EMBARC. At this time, we are not accepting volunteers who were not randomly selected.
Participation is completely online.
Parents will be asked to give permission for researchers to use their child’s unused newborn dried blood spot for PFAS testing. They are also asked to use information from birth records. Birth parents will also be asked to complete a short survey about their pregnancy.
Blood draws are not a part of this study. We will not ask for a new sample of blood as part of this research. Only historically collected and stored past samples of blood are tested for PFAS.
Learn more about newborn dried blood spots and BioTrust by visiting Michigan’s BioTrust for Health page.
You can learn more about Michigan’s newborn screening program by visiting Michigan's hereditary disorders page.
