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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The available online courses are:
This course is to educate health care providers and other professionals about sleep-related infant deaths and how to prevent them. This course is designed for any individual who works with families that have or are expecting infants, such as nurses, social workers, health educators, home visitors, and child welfare workers. The following continuing education is awarded for successful completion of this training: 2.0 Nursing contact hours, 2.0 Social Work clock hours, 2.0 CHW contact hours, 2.0 CME credits, and 2.0 Health Educator contact hours.
This course educates professionals on how to address the potential challenges that parents and caregivers have with following the safe sleep guidelines and to educate them on techniques for having effective, open and non-judgmental conversations with parents and caregivers around this issue. Note: Anyone taking this training needs to be knowledgeable of the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment. The following continuing education is awarded for successful completion of this course: 1.0 Nursing contact hour, 1.0 Social Work clock hour, 1.0 CHW contact hour, 1.0 CME credit, and 1.0 Health Educator contact hour.
This course is designed for nurses and others caring for infants within hospitals (such as mother/baby and labor and delivery units). This course reviews the updated American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Infant Safe Sleep guidelines, highlighting issues/concerns that commonly arise in the hospital setting including swaddling, skin-to-skin care and use of hats. The training also teaches techniques that can be used to support families in implementing the safe sleep recommendations both in the hospital and at home after discharge. Additionally, suggestions are provided for hospital and system-wide activities to promote infant safe sleep. Nursing contact hours are available for successful completion of this course.
This course is designed to provide professionals working with families the tools to build a culture of breastfeeding within the workplace and the families they serve. This course covers the root causes of disparities in breastfeeding rates, information to support consistent messaging about breastfeeding, policies and best practices for breastfeeding in everyday life, and how professionals can champion breastfeeding when communicating with families. The following continuing education is awarded for successful completion of this course: 1.0 Nursing contact hour, 1.0 Social Work clock hour, 1.0 LCERP, 1 CME credit, and 1.0 Health Educator contact hour.
This course is designed to support healthcare professionals and support workers who have experienced a patient death. Individuals who complete the course will learn how to better identify the types of grief, factors affecting the grief response, self-care strategies, and where to find additional support. The following continuing education is awarded for successful completion of this course: 1.0 Nursing contact hour, 1.0 Social Work clock hour, and 1.0 Health Educator contact hour.
This course provides professionals who provide services to pregnant persons and their infants with counseling strategies and interventions for smoking cessation. The following continuing education is awarded for successful completion of this course: 1.5 Social Work clock hours, 1.5 Nursing contact hours, and 1.5 CME credits.