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.
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.
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.
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.
Information on child support services for participants and partners.
Programs for healthy children & families, including immunization, lead poisoning prevention, prenatal smoking cessation, and many others.
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.
Child Welfare Medical and Behavioral Health Resources
MDHHS and partners support a continuum of prevention services. The continuum is inclusive of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention activities. Visit this page to learn more.
Information about injury and violence prevention programs in Michigan
Information on Safe Sleep for your baby, how to protect your baby's life.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' (MDHHS) Environmental Health Bureau (EHB) 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.
The Division of Victim Services (DVS) provides a voice advocating for and responding to all victims of crime in Michigan. Learn more about DVS-funded programs and services, including Michigan’s 24/7, free, confidential, and anonymous domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines.
Medical Resources for Child Protection
Serves as liaison and provides funding to Michigan’s 45 local health departments.
Adult Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Services
Multicultural Health
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.
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.
State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP)
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 Statewide Systems of Care
Information on the grant awarded for the State Innovation Model Proposal
Protect MiFamily -Title IV-E Waiver
Offers resources for agencies who operate the Weatherization Assistance Program in the state of Michigan
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.
Equal Opportunity, Legal Base, Laws and Reporting Welfare Fraud information.
A variety of reports & statistics for programs and services.
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In 2000, the Pew Environmental Health Commission issued a report that identified a gap in our knowledge about how environmental contaminants contribute to the national chronic disease burden. There was no system to collect the information needed to document links between environmental hazards and chronic diseases. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (Tracking Program) is designed to fill that gap. Currently, the CDC funds 33 state and local health departments to build and maintain local tracking networks. Bringing together information on environmental hazards, exposures, and health outcomes helps us understand the complicated relationship between the environment and health.
MiTracking is part of the CDC’s Tracking Program. It is a web-based system that provides health, population, and environmental data, information, and the tools necessary to help us better understand how the environment can impact human health. MiTracking makes data on Michigan-specific environmental hazards, human exposure to these hazards, and health effects easier to find and use. Data are available on:
MiTracking is an important tool in environmental public health. It can be used to:
It is important to note that these data alone cannot determine all the factors that play a part in chronic disease or health conditions. The exact cause of chronic diseases and health conditions cannot be determined by these data, and may never be known.
While there are many ways to define environmental health, for the purposes of this website, environmental health means how the environment might affect a person’s health and how people might affect the health of the environment.
Epidemiology is the study of the causes of diseases and trends over time in groups of people.1 MiTracking is one of the tools used to examine disease trends in environmental public health. We can look at environmental hazards, potential exposures, and health conditions in certain groups of people and by where they live. We can measure some health problems by identifying the number of people who have a particular disease or illness.
We can also measure or estimate whether a number of people may have come in contact with an environmental hazard such as lead-based paint in homes, or disinfectant byproducts in water. We can also study the same kinds of diseases or illnesses in people who have not come in contact with an environmental hazard to see if the numbers are different or the same.
MiTracking also contributes Michigan health, environment, and population data to the CDC’s Tracking Program.
No data that can be used to identify an individual are provided by MiTracking or shared with the CDC’s Tracking Program. State and federal laws that protect health data shape the information that is available on MiTracking and the CDC's Tracking Program. We follow all of the laws and policies that protect the privacy of health records and other personal information.
1. CDC definition: Epidemiology is the method used to find the causes of health outcomes and diseases in populations