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.
Health Care Coverage information and resources.
Help from Other Programs
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.
Housing and Homeless Services
Low-income Households Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP)
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.
Programs for healthy children & families, including immunization, lead poisoning prevention, prenatal smoking cessation, and many others.
Hope For A Home
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.
Child Fatality Registry
Information on child support services for participants and partners.
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.
Information on American Indian Services, Employment and Training.
Child Welfare Medical and Behavioral Health Resources
Prevention Services
The Michigan Domestic & Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board administers state and federal funding for domestic violence shelters and advocacy services, develops and recommends policy, and develops and provides technical assistance and training.
Information about injury and violence prevention programs in Michigan
information about the Department's public safety programs.
Information on the Safe Delivery Program, laws, and publications.
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.
Child Welfare Medical Resources
Adult Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Services
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.
Child Care Fund
Child Welfare Resources
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.
MIBridges Partners
State Health Assessment
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's Trauma Care System
Information on the grant awarded for the State Innovation Model Proposal
Migrant Affairs
MiSACWIS Training
Pathways to Potential site
Protect MiFamily -Title IV-E Waiver
Offers resources for agencies who operate the Weatherization Assistance Program in the state of Michigan
MDHHS News, Press Releases, Media toolkit, and Media Inquiries.
Locate your County Office
Careers With MDHHS
Complaints
Office of Inspector General
Information on resources in your community and volunteer recruitment and training, and services provided at local DHS offices.
Information is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan citizens.
Helpful phone numbers to MDHHS services.
Equal Opportunity, Legal Base, Laws and Reporting Welfare Fraud information.
Information about audits conducted by the Office of Audit.
Legislation policy and planning information.
A variety of reports & statistics for programs and services.
The web Browser you are currently using is unsupported, and some features of this site may not work as intended. Please update to a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox or Edge to experience all features Michigan.gov has to offer.
October 06, 2022
LANSING, Mich. – Today, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Director Elizabeth Hertel and State Deputy Superintendent Kyle Guerrant discussed the importance of providing students the on-campus mental health support they need with Northwest Education Services (North Ed; formerly TBAISD) students, parents and educators. They also celebrated the inclusion of more than $558 million in the FY2023 bipartisan educational budget that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed in July to support the health, safety and wellness of all students across the state.
The Youth Health & Wellness Center, overseen by Grand Traverse County Health Department, is a child and adolescent health center located on the campus of the North Ed’s Career Tech facility. It provides primary and acute care and mental health services for ages 10 to 21 across five counties. An additional $25 million in this year’s budget could help create more facilities like it across the state that could serve over 35,000 additional youth.
“Programs like the Youth Health & Wellness Center provide access to important physical health services including immunizations, physicals and vision and hearing screenings, plus behavioral health care such as counseling services that can help address family issues, anxiety, peer pressure and bullying,” said Hertel. “Behavioral health, including mental health, is just as important as our physical health, and access at schools where our kids spend so much of their time is a crucial part of the equation. Funding for these locations, and investments included in our department’s FY2023 budget, will go a long way in supporting children and their families across Michigan.”
“We want to thank Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Wayne Schmidt and the state legislature for the additional support in this year’s budget for local school districts throughout Michigan to help work through student mental health challenges,” Guerrant said. “Having these services available right on campus like the ones offered at the Youth Health & Wellness Center will help ensure our students can get the help they need when they need it.”
This year’s budget addresses the health, safety and wellness of students with an expansion of $558 million for programs to support children’s mental health efforts, including funding for mental health screenings, school-based mental health professionals, school-based mental and physical health efforts, school-based health clinics and services for children with severe mental health needs.
The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) and MDHHS work together to assist local school districts in implementing these life-changing programs and services for children and families.
The FY2023 budget for MDHHS expands access to community- and home-based behavioral health resources for children and adults including:
Four years ago, there was no dedicated state funding for student mental health services. The governor and state legislature approved $30 million in new funding for student mental health in the summer of 2018. That amount has increased ten-fold since that time.
In 2021, the legislature allocated nearly $300 million to intermediate school districts (ISDs) and local school districts in sections 31n and 31o of the state School Aid Act to hire behavioral health professionals, resulting in the addition of 850 professionals across the state. With section 31o funds, 284 districts serving 721,444 students were able to hire over 600 full time equivalent social workers, counselors, psychologists and nurses. With section 31n(6) funds allocated to ISDs, more than 250 professionals were hired to provide direct services to students.
In the new fiscal year 2022-23 school aid budget, there is $150 million provided to districts for discretionary mental health needs though per-pupil payments to districts for activities to improve mental health, including hiring staff, implementing screening tools, providing school personnel with consultations with behavioral health clinicians and any other mental health service or product.
There also is $50 million to ISDs for Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students (TRAILS) implementation. TRAILS equips schools with training, materials and implementation needed to offer research-driven prevention and early intervention mental health programming to their students. ISDs must use the funding to implement a TRAILS program.
The fiscal year 2022-23 school aid budget also includes:
# # #
Lynn Sutfin
City of Benton Harbor Water Response Resource and Opportunity Fair is today from 4 to 6 p.m.
Follow us
MDHHS Is Hiring
Apply Here
MDHHS FOIA
Submit a FOIA Request
