Livingston Educational Service Agency's Healthy Habits Start Now (HHSN) program helps families understand the importance of eating more fruits and vegetables every day and the benefits of being more physically active.
For Black infants, racism's impacts begin at birth – and may be deadly. But practitioners across Michigan are coming together to address it through a proposed expansion of the state's Healthy Moms Healthy Babies program.
“Being able to meet people at co-working spaces has been extremely beneficial. That’s the idea at Foundry, to take that and apply it to artists,” says owner Carol Hall. “Maybe someone in pottery will run into a photographer that works upstairs and they can trade money or skills to benefit each other. That is the dream. The day that happens, I’ll be so excited.”
“You can’t put a price on feeling good,” says shop owner Monique Lictawa. “Showing that support, love, and encouragement or kindness means a lot to the person getting that message.”
The fate of Halloween this year, a year where COVID-19 has flipped everyday life on its head, is a question on many people’s mind. The Port Huron Parks & Rec Department has the answer.
The nonprofit Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities has spent decades providing a variety of services for Dearborn residents, most recently using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education funding to make physical activity more accessible to all.
The state recently reinstated and expanded the program, which aims to improve children's daily nutrition, build their healthy eating habits, and invest in Michigan's local food economy.
Although the warm summer months may be behind us, it doesn’t mean that the environmental stewardship efforts of the Friends of the St. Clair River are over for the year, too. In fact, the autumn can often be an ideal time for getting outdoors and working to protect and maintain the natural world.
The outdoor learning space is a 20 ft. by 40 ft. covered pavilion that will be outfitted with water and electricity. It will be used for outdoor classroom space, science experiments, play performances, readers theater, and more.
"People are turning to fresh and local foods more and more during the pandemic," says market manager Liz Mathews.
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