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.
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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Call 911 if you or someone you know is in immediate danger or needs medical care.
Poison Control Hotline: 800-222-1222
Contact the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at 800-662-4357 to find resources and connect with local substance abuse treatment centers.
Michigan Department Health and Human Services (MDHHS) opioid resources main page: Michigan has support for those individuals or friends and family members who may be at high-risk for an opioid overdose, you can have naloxone mailed to you at no cost by visiting https://nextdistro.org/michigan.
Naloxone request form for organizations: This naloxone request form is available to organizations that already distribute naloxone. This form is meant to provide additional naloxone capacity and is not meant to replace naloxone already being received from other sources.
Michigan has a network of syringe services programs (SSPs) which provide a range of services, including:
University of Michigan Injury Center and Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (M-OPEN) have resources available to medical professionals related to safer opioid prescribing, post overdose care, opioid prescribing guides and other education regarding opioids.
Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (M-OPEN) Prescribing Recommendations and Resources:
Michigan Overdose to Action (MODA) community app: The Michigan Overdose to Action (MODA) community app provides a space for those working in treatment, harm reduction and prevention for substance use to network and share information.
The Michigan Overdose Data to Action (MODA) Program brings surveillance and prevention efforts together to decrease:
The program is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Michigan Substance Use Data Disorder Repository
Michigan Environmental Public Health Tracking
System for Opioid Overdose Surveillance (SOS)
Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (MIBRFSS)
asks questions on opioid use in a survey included in the 2020 MIBRFSS
Calvin College is developing a strategy guide and conducting a policy evaluation and implementation of the naloxone standing order policy focusing on Kent County.
Contact: Laura Luchies, PhD, Associate Director, Calvin College Center for Social Research
City of Detroit developed a Quick Response Team (QRT) program to respond to an overdose during the recovery window of 72 hours immediately following a life-threatening overdose. Contact: Detroit Health Department
Behavioral Health
100 Mack Ave, Detroit, MI 48201
313hope@detroitmi.gov
Families Against Narcotics (FAN) is expanding the Comeback Quick Response Team model to other communities throughout Michigan by providing coaching to communities in adopting this model.
Flint Odyssey House runs a Quick Response Team (QRT) program to respond to an overdose during the recovery window of 72 hours immediately following a life-threatening overdose.
Contact: Kenneth Jones
Director, MORT Program (Mobile Overdose Response Team)
718 Griswold, Port Huron, MI 48060
810-937-5366 (Office)
810-637-1547 (Mobile - Google Voice)
Greater Flint Coalition has a program with a Quick Response Team (QRT) respond to an overdose during the recovery window of 72 hours immediately following a life-threatening overdose.
Henry Ford Allegiance/W.A. Foote Memorial developed a program with a Quick Response Team (QRT) to respond to an overdose during the recovery window of 72 hours immediately following a life-threatening overdose.
Home of New Vision a program with a Quick Response Team (QRT) to respond to an overdose during the recovery window of 72 hours immediately following a life- threatening overdose.
Michigan Center For Rural Health (MCRH) in partnership with Michigan Hospital Association, provides training to healthcare professionals to become academic detailers in their communities. This training educates participants on the academic detailing process and how to assist providers in implementing best practices from the "CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain".
Michigan Clinical Care Systems Improvement (MI-CCSI) provides comprehensive pain management training to care teams and is developing supports and a survey on pharmacy access issues specific to buprenorphine for opioid use disorder.
MDHHS Bureau of EMS, Trauma & Preparedness offers an opioid training module for the community paramedicine program in the MI-Train catalog. It is a gateway to free health training opportunities. An account must be created to gain access.
MDHHS Bureau of Recovery Oriented Systems of Care (OROSC) partners with Wayne State-Center for Behavioral Health and Justice (CBHJ) to integrate fatal and nonfatal overdose data with local county level jail management information system data to better understand the impact of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) expansion into county jails. Wayne State University provides harm reduction training and technical assistance to peer recovery coaches.
MDHHS Viral Hepatitis supports and expands Syringe Service Programs and conduct outreach focused on harm reduction services.
Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) runs indicator reports and gives provider presentations across the state to improve Michigan Automated Prescription System (MAPS) registration and utilization, including electronic health record (EHR) integration.
Michigan Health Improvement Alliance (MiHIA) provides a Quick Response Team (QRT) to respond to an overdose during the recovery window of 72 hours immediately following a life- threatening overdose.
Michigan Model for Health (MMH) provides health education curriculum that teaches students using digital tools and interactive lessons about substance misuse.
Michigan Primary Care Association (MPCA) provides training and resources to prescribers on opioid use disorder supports. MPCA promotes partnerships among health care centers, correctional facilities, and drug courts to improve education and linkage to care.
Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) designed and maintains a case reporting tool for overdose fatality review that collects data elements.
Oakwood Health Care, Beaumont developed a Quick Response Team (QRT) to respond to an overdose during the recovery window of 72 hours immediately following a life-threatening overdose.
Regent of the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center (UMIPC) serves as clinical consultant to MDHHS by providing technical assistance on materials including resources, tools, and protocols on safer opioid prescribing and pain management (Michigan Safer Opioid Prescribing Toolkit) and post-overdose care in the Emergency Department (Post-Overdose Section).
Regent of the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center System for Opioid Overdose Surveillance (UMIPC SOS) conducts focus groups to assess how near real time opioid overdose incident mapping and demographic data can improve local planning, implementation and response to opioid overdoses. They execute and evaluate best practices for communities based on the System of Opioid Overdose Surveillance data.
Regent of University of Michigan – Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (MI OPEN) shares tools and resources developed to promote safe opioid prescribing in acute care settings and provides education about safe storage and disposal of opioids.
University of Michigan School of Precision Health in partnership with Michigan OPEN, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, and University of Michigan School of Music developed Painless the Musical as supplementary education to the Michigan Model for Health(TM) Curriculum in high schools. Painless is inspired by true stories of opioid use disorder and recovery and aims to educate youth about the opioid epidemic with health education materials delivered to middle, high and community theater programs to increase education on opioid overdose prevention.
Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies (WSU) is expanding a strategy guide that will assist communities by developing strategies to engage and mobilize community partners to address opioid overdose at a local level. The Michigan Overdose to Action (MODA) community app provides a space for those working in the area of treatment, harm reduction and prevention for substance use to network and share information.
Western Michigan University (WMU) is currently conducting evaluations of the Comeback Quick Response Team Model (FAN) and the Groundwork Strategy Guide (WSU) to provide feedback on engagement and dissemination of strategies, models, and lessons learned that will guide their work in year 3 of the MODA grant.