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Duane Breijak, executive director of the National Association of Social Workers' Michigan chapter.

Michigan agencies seek strategies to address child welfare worker shortage

Michigan's child welfare workers have served on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the state is currently facing what one industry leader described as a "critical shortage" of child welfare workers.

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The North Branch of the Clinton River at Wolcott Mill Metropark.
What is the new future of Southeast Michigan’s parks, post-COVID?

It's widely known that COVID-19 has caused a huge surge in park usage and outdoor activity, but what does that renewed interest in the outdoors mean for the future of Southeast Michigan's parks?

Dr. Brad Merker.
New clinic helps Michiganders overcome traumas of intensive care

Henry Ford Health System's Post ICU Brain Health Clinic provides specialized care for adults 55 and older who have survived intensive care.

These medically tailored meals are made available to patients with diabetes at Beaumont Hospital, Troy.
Michigan hospitals offer meals tailored to patients’ medical needs

Diet can be deadly, especially for people with chronic health conditions. That's why some Michigan health care systems have begun providing free meals tailored to improve those patients' health.

A Mott Children's Hospital patient plays a video game.
WCC to host esports fundraiser to purchase gaming devices for Mott Children’s Hospital patients

Washtenaw Community College students will host a week-long esports fundraiser Oct. 3-9 to purchase gaming carts for patients at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.

A runner at Lake St. Clair Metropark.
Can parks help lower health care costs? New efforts in Southeast Michigan say yes

Getting outdoors has long been linked to good health, but recent efforts across Southeast Michigan show that the region's parks provide major, measurable benefits to residents' well-being.

Norris Stephens of Good Medicine Farms at the Ypsilanti Farmers Market, where participants in Washtenaw County's Prescription for Health program can cash in "prescriptions" for fresh food.
Michigan health care providers find success with “prescriptions” for fresh produce and exercise

Health care providers across the state are administering innovative programs that prescribe doses of local fruits and vegetables and injections of exercise.

CARES staff members Tamera Lewis, Scott Leeman, Anthony Bass, and Melisa Tasker.
New Ypsilanti facility provides safe space for those experiencing mental health crisis

In the past, people experiencing a mental health crisis would often end up interacting with police officers or being admitted to a locked psychiatric unit, but a new county initiative aims to change that.

Elizabeth Koschmann, director of the University of Michigan's TRAILS program, which is offering free social-emotional learning training and curricula to Michigan schools.
Michigan is expanding mental health services in schools – and equipping teachers to implement them

A University of Michigan program is providing teachers much-needed support to implement social-emotional learning in the classroom.

Packard Health's new location.
Packard Health to expand services in long-needed new location

Thanks to an $8 million capital campaign launched in 2018, the health center has moved its main office to 2650 Carpenter Rd. in Pittsfield Township.

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