Grant Database

Award Amount: $84,893
Geography: Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, Allegan

The Avenue Family Network, Inc. (“The Avenue”) intends to implement CADCare, a case management software, which will allow their team to better track falls, nutritious meals served, and the psychosocial well-being of participants in its adult day programs. CADCare is built specifically for adult day programs and offers comprehensive assessment tools and the ability to securely manage participant records electronically.

ID: 2212-151159

Award Amount: $150,000
Geography: Battle Creek

The Southwest Michigan Urban League (SWMUL), in partnership with Bronson Battle Creek, will engage the local African American and Black community in conversations around the distrust of healthcare providers and systems to encourage community members to gain a better understanding of the healthcare system, promote preventative care, and help the medical community better understand residents’ concerns about seeking care.

ID: 2302-151342

Award Amount: $499,470
Geography: Statewide

This program aims to overcome nursing home quality challenges through the formation of a Michigan State Leadership Team, focusing on teamwork, quality improvement, and health equity in local nursing homes. Leveraging work initiated by the Moving Forward Coalition and based on National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommendations, Michigan seeks to pioneer a comprehensive approach to nursing home quality enhancement with active resident engagement, facilitated by key partnerships within the state.

ID: 2307-152560

Award Amount: $305,686
Geography: Macomb, Oakland, Wayne

This project will physically co-locate the PACE program in a dedicated wing of assisted living (AL) communities, using their own staff and creating an on-site “Place for PACE.” They will partner with AL facilities in Warren and Troy to establish and test the model in three ways: 1) to offer wraparound services for those with declining health and mild memory decline, 2) to focus on behavioral health and dementia; and 3) to provide a regional “hub” for rehab participants. The initiative also involves a unique partnership with Detroit Cristo Rey High School, engaging students in a work study program to enhance their skills and provide support to PACE participants, enriching the overall care experience.

ID: 2308-152703

Award Amount: $128,739
Geography: Lansing

During this grant, ANC staff will re-focus and re-distribute work and focus on new functions, such as creating systems for Allen Place residents to submit feedback, help promote unit vacancies as they arise, and ensure residents are comfortable and connected with the neighborhood and its resources.

ID: 2301-151292

Award Amount: $120,000
Geography: Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw, Wayne

This initiative strives to elevate the well-being of older Asian Americans through the creation of a bilingual home health care workforce. By partnering with Mid-Michigan College this project aims to develop a culturally sensitive curriculum and a sustainable model for training direct care workers proficient in multiple languages, overcoming language and cultural barriers in home health care.

ID: 2308-152821

Award Amount: $408,499
Geography: Statewide

This proposal aims to address the pressing issue of falls among older adults by creating a centralized, easily accessible hub via 2-1-1 to connect them with fall prevention resources in Michigan. The initiative seeks to enhance awareness of existing fall prevention programs, identify gaps in services, validate a regional tool for program direction, and ensure widespread knowledge of the 2-1-1 hub among key stakeholders to facilitate access to evidence-based fall prevention programs.

ID: 2306-152353

Award Amount: $500,000
Geography: Statewide

The Trauma Play Therapy (TP) training initiative will provide up to 75 Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC)-based clinicians with the tools to use this evidence-based model with child survivors of abuse and their non-offending caregivers. CAC clinicians will complete training and clinical consultation required for Trauma Play Therapy certification through this grant period.

ID: 2302-151561

Award Amount: $150,000
Geography: Arenac, Bay, Genesee, Iosco, Saginaw, Tuscola, Lapeer

Funding will enable the expansion of the Mid-Michigan Community Health Access Program (CHAP) to reach residents in Michigan's 8th Congressional district (Flint, Saginaw, and Bay City). The project aims to identify individuals with unmet social needs, provide coordinated care management and community linkages, and leverage community health workers to address diverse social determinants of health, ultimately improving health outcomes and connecting residents to vital services. This grant will allow the program to be tested in a rural area while Medicaid redetermination is happening across the state.

ID: 2305-152130

Award Amount: $328,720
Geography: Statewide

This project aims to examine and eliminate non-essential administrative and paperwork demands that lead to complex and delayed access to mental health services, inflate the cost of care, and hinder recruitment and retention efforts. Partners will collaboratively form an advisory group, conduct a comprehensive review of burdens, create evaluation criteria, review demanding processes, and develop recommendations for reducing administrative and paperwork demands.

ID: 2307-152414

Award Amount: $300,000
Geography: Pontiac

This project will launch an Aging in Place Home Repair Program, focusing on critical home repairs for older adults to age in place. The initiative will allow partners to work together during the intake process, facilitating warm transfers and referrals, including referrals for older adults discharged from the hospital.

ID: 2307-152481

Award Amount: $122,841
Geography: Iosco

The Northeast Michigan Community Service Agency (NEMCSA), in partnership with the Rural Health Group – a group of retired professionals in the region – will work together to document the challenges faced by older rural residents in Iosco County when seeking medical care. The result of the project will be a technical report that will provide a deeper understanding of how the county’s lack of transportation options and medical providers is contributing to increased morbidity and mortality of older rural residents and will outline recommendations for improving access to health care in the county.

ID: 2303-151620

Award Amount: $150,000
Geography: Washtenaw

Through this funding, the collaborative will advance three goals developed during their formation: 1.) maintain and enhance the capacity of the Alianza Washtenaw coalition by building on existing partnerships and developing new relationships with other Latinx coalitions, 2.) pilot test the newly developed Latinx-Friendly Agency Assessment Tool in Washtenaw County with coalition members and outside organizations, and revise the assessment for publication and dissemination statewide, and 3.) facilitate coaching and inter-organizational learning using the ABLe Change framework to improve services to Latinx population based on each organization’s assessment results.

ID: 2302-151358

Award Amount: $135,960
Geography: Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, Missaukee, Wexford

Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Michigan (AAANM), with the help of TBD Solutions, intends to develop an electronic application to eliminate the paper-based process currently in place for the MI Choice Waiver program. AAANM hopes to streamline the internal operations of the authorization process so that clinical staff spends less time on paperwork, there is less opportunity for error, and the right services are delivered.

ID: 2212-151151

Award Amount: $40,135
Geography: Baraga

The Baraga County Sheriff's Office partners with Avel eCare, an organization that provides Virtual Crisis Care (VCC). This partnership will empower the Sheriff’s Office to offer 24/7 access to behavioral health professionals using iPads and VCC team expert mental health care. This strategy increases the capacity of Baraga County to provide effective mental health care and optimizes the time law enforcement spends assisting those in crisis while waiting for services

ID: 2304-151759

Award Amount: $500,000
Geography: Statewide

This project addresses the significant mental health challenges experienced by homeless youth in Michigan. The initiative aims to explore the impact of providing 365 days of prevention and aftercare behavioral health services to runaway and homeless youth (RHY) in pilot sites, as opposed to the current limit of 90 days. Michigan’s Children will use results from this project to propose changes that support longer-term prevention and aftercare services for this population.

ID: 2307-152475

Award Amount: $200,000
Geography: Macomb, Oakland, Wayne

The Shul will train organizational leadership in a Behavioral Health Training Initiative (BHTI) to address the increasing behavioral health needs of community members who customarily rely on clergy for behavioral health support. The BHTI will address trauma-informed care, adolescent and teen behavioral health, geriatric care, and general mental health literacy with a main objective to better
equip leadership with specific language and diagnostic criteria for connection to treatment.

ID: 2304-151816

Award Amount: $150,000
Geography: Detroit

Project Healthy Community aims to enhance data collection and evaluation of its Family Wellness Project by contracting with an organizational development specialist to create a comprehensive management system. This initiative will improve program effectiveness, support participant engagement through peer-to-peer trainers, and facilitate sustainable funding by demonstrating its impact and potential for expansion, ultimately benefiting more individuals and strengthening collaboration among its partners, Authority Health and Brilliant Detroit.

ID: 2308-152889

Award Amount: $150,000
Geography: Huron, Lapeer, Sanilac, Tuscola

The Thumb Community Health Partnership (TCHP) aims to address health disparities among populations such as veterans, aging individuals, low-income individuals, and those with mental health or substance use disorder. Through financial partnerships, technology adoption, and community input, TCHP seeks to enhance collaboration, coordination of services, and data-driven strategies to improve access and outcomes in the Thumb region.

ID: 2302-151398

Award Amount: $149,262
Geography: Barry, Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lenawee, Livingston, Monroe, Oakland, St. Joseph, Washtenaw, Wayne

Emergent Health Partners aims to reduce health disparities by improving the demographic data collection skills of EMS clinicians, including sensitive information like sexual orientation and gender identity. EHP plans to create training modules, involve a community advisory group, and expand the project statewide, with the goal of making these modules accessible to Michigan's 28,000 licensed EMS clinicians, strengthening collaboration with MDHHS in shaping data standards.

ID: 2308-152915