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Supporting children after trauma and abuse is a community effort

Supporting children after trauma requires coordination across medical, counseling, and advocacy services. In Wayne County, the Children’s Foundation of Michigan is helping expand access to that care through partners like Avalon Healing Center and Kids-TALK.

The Yunion: Innovation in increasing access to mental health care for our youth

The Yunion expands mental health access in Detroit schools through a closed-loop referral system ensuring culturally responsive care for youth.

Collaboratives for kids: Maximizing impact through funding partnerships

For many nonprofits, establishing an agency endowment can feel like something to revisit later—when resources feel more abundant or fundraising pressures ease. But agency endowments aren’t about waiting for the perfect moment. They’re about making an intentional investment in your organization’s future, creating long-term stability and sustaining your mission for generations to come.

Recap: #TelehealthTalkMI discusses opportunities, challenges, and future of telehealth

On Wed., June 17, Children’s Foundation hosted a Twitter Chat to bring together organizations and providers to discuss their experiences transitioning to telehealth, the impact it has had on the communities they served, and what providers believe the future holds for remote medicine and psychology.

Children’s Foundation inaugural Behavioral Health Scholarship recipient announced

With generous donations from several Children’s Foundation Trustees, The Foundation has established a Behavioral Health Scholarship to be awarded annually. The goal is to support a student in Michigan pursuing a doctoral degree in a mental health field, specifically focusing on a practice that will serve children and adolescents in behavioral health.

Screen-time success: teletherapy enables breakthroughs for kids struggling with sobriety

Samaritas knew there was a need for teletherapy for teens in fosters homes struggling with substance abuse disorders during the COVID-19 crisis. However, they did not expect to see such outstanding progress.

Central City Integrated Health initiative provides PPE, testing kits

When Central City Integrated Health received its emergency funding from The Children’s Foundation, it used it for key supplies that were – and continue to be — in high demand: testing and screening kits, as well as personal protection equipment.

Love for a Child supports foster families through COVID-19

Emergency funding from The Children’s Foundation is “sealing a crack” in taking care of families with foster children during COVID-19, said Joe Savalle, founder of Oxford-based Love for a Child.

Chaldean Community Foundation continues work with online support groups

Last year, The Children’s Foundation helped provide funding for the Chaldean Community Foundation to add a family fitness center to its Sterling Heights site. Now, through its COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, it is helping the organization with services for at-risk youth and their families dealing with stress and anxiety during COVID-19.

LAHC provides grocery gift cards for those in need

Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities used its emergency funding from The Children's Foundation's COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund to provide Meijer and Kroger gift cards to families impacted by the pandemic.

A letter from Larry – June 2020

Hello and welcome to the start of summer! We have been extremely busy during these challenging times and are very proud of the impact we have made during the COVID-19 crisis.

Donor Story: Patricia H. Rodzik gives $1.5 million to support mental health services for children and young adults

In August 2019, The Children’s Foundation received a generous gift from Patricia H. Rodzik totaling more than $1.5 million to establish an endowed chair.

A Donor Story: Six-year-old boy steps-up amid Coronavirus pandemic

In many ways, six-year-old Owen Melancon of Livonia, Mich. is like most other kids his age spending shelter-in-place days riding bikes and playing in the back yard. But he is also finding ways to raise money so he can help doctors fight Coronavirus.

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