• Community Services Block Grants Information
The Community Services Block Grants (CSBG) is jointly administered by the Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR). DHS has advised us that Block Grant funding will be available to grantees at the start of the fiscal year, October 1, 2009. Contracts will begin on that date or the date that the grantee's contract is signed by the director of DHS. ...

• Commission Hosts Kalamazoo Forum on Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Issues
On Monday, June 22, 2009, beginning at 5:00 p.m., the Michigan Civil Rights Commission will host a Kalamazoo public forum on migrant and seasonal farmworker issues. The meeting will take place at the Multicultural Center (MCC), located at 1202 Adrian Trimpe Building on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

• Michigan Department of Civil Rights To Close Kalamazoo and Saginaw Offices
In response to the need to reduce spending, the Department of Civil Rights will close its regional offices in Kalamazoo and Saginaw effective June 5, 2009.

• Civil Rights News Around the Nation

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• Victims Of Crime Act (VOCA) Training (FY 2009)
The Michigan Crime Victim Services Commission (CVSC) has again partnered with the Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) and the Michigan Alliance Against Hate Crime (MIAAHC) to offer workshops on cultural competence and hate crime to those who provide services to victims of crime.