The 5 Healthy Towns Foundation sought new ways to address rising mental health issues in Chelsea, Dexter, Grass Lake, Manchester, and Stockbridge. One solution it identified was equipping faith leaders to help.
"With each of our children, we strive to meet three long-term goals: to ensure they graduate from high school, to keep them out of the juvenile justice system, and to help prevent them from becoming teen parents. Our mentors spend at least four one-on-one hours a week with their children, two hours in the classroom and two outside of it, exploring and sharing activities and experiences together."
The Battle Creek Family YMCA has implemented a variety of initiatives to address lack of access to fresh food and vegetables in its community.
“I wanted to give back. And living downtown, I wanted to show off all the cool things happening here,” says Cecelia Shuler, founder of Downtown Imaging Co.
“It's an opportunity for white leaders to better understand their whiteness, to deconstruct it and work for racial equity...people get to remain whole because that’s the goal, that people actually feel they have agency and power to change oppression and racism."
“This year’s Icy Bazar will be the biggest one yet. We have 32 separate ice sculptures sponsored by different businesses in St. Clair County,” says Bryan Ulatwoski, president of the St. Clair Chamber of Commerce.
"Everything we do is being done differently now and our staff are finding solutions," says Euphemia Franklin, executive director of South Eastern Michigan Indians, Inc. "We have to change and be like the water. If rocks are thrown into the water, it knows how to flow around them and keep moving. That's what we have to do as human beings and as human services."
Entrepreneur and Port Huron resident Samantha Webb is a new face in the world of beauty and skin care products. She started her business Luna Beauty in July 2020 with the intent to empower women.
“There’s not just one thing or one tip that is the end-all, be-all fix; it’s a combination of factors. I wanted to write something to inspire people, to movitave them. I wanted to provide that ‘Aha!’ moment for people,” says author Cheryl Keaney.
Michigan Child Collaborative Care helps primary care providers address their young patients' mental health by offering same-day phone consultations with psychiatrists, among other services.
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