Program Offerings and Initiatives
CMU’s Interdisciplinary Center for Community Health and Wellness actively engages with communities regionally and statewide in partnerships, collaborations and initiatives.
Projects
Telehealth Broadband Pilot Project / Connectivity in Rural Michigan
- HRSA-funded initiative to measure broadband performance and internet availability in Gladwin, Manistee, Missaukee, Montmorency, Osceola and Oscoda Counties with an emphasis on evaluating how connectivity affects telemedicine access.
- The project goal is to collect accurate data to support future broadband deployment efforts
Telehealth Technology Resources / Improving Rural Capacity and Access to Mental Health Services
- Congressionally Directed Spending Award (Health Resources and Services Administration of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- To provide telehealth services, equipment and associated IT to support and expand telemental health services in Central and Northern Michigan working with health providers, FQHCs, clinics, and schools.
For more information, contact John Jervinsky, jervi1j@cmich.edu, Telehealth Programs Manager, Technical Assistance / Telehealth Outreach and Implementation
Current collaborations
Michigan ACEs Initiative
Center leaders provide technical assistance for coalition building, professional development (with six Michigan ACE Master Trainers), and public awareness education to address the significant health impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Center Director, Alison Arnold gives a presentation on trauma-informed care to CMU's Association for the Education of Young Children. These presentations and trainings are among some of the Michigan ACEs’ efforts to foster resilience in children
affected by trauma.
To learn more view our Michigan ACE Initiative Video where CMU Center Director and Michigan ACEs Master Trainer, Alison Arnold, talks about Building Resilience: Healing Communities.
Michigan Preventing ACEs: Data to Action (MI PACE-D2A)
The MI PACE D2A project is a $1.3M three-year cooperative the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI) to address state-specific needs related to the prevention of adverse
childhood experiences (ACEs). The primary goals of the project are to:
- Build a state-level surveillance infrastructure that ensures the capacity to collect, analyze, and use ACE data to inform statewide ACE prevention activities as part of a State Action Plan.
- Support the implementation of data-driven comprehensive, evidence-based ACE primary prevention strategies.
MPHI is the project lead. CMU’s Interdisciplinary Center for Community Health and Wellness is part of a collaborative steering team of statewide partners including the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, the Michigan Department of
Education, the Michigan ACE Initiative, and the Children’s Trust Fund.
Michigan PACE D2A Capacity Assessment Findings (July 2021)
Trauma-informed Professional Education (PE) Training Collaborations:
- Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan Head Start Programs (2020-2021).
- Michigan Community College (2021).
- Mott Children’s Health Center Annual “Tuuri Day” Education Program (2019, 2020, 2021).
Building resilience to improve population health with MiHIA
The CMU Interdisciplinary Center is a co-lead with the Michigan Health Improvement Alliance (MiHIA) for building a regional ACEs Coalition. MiHIA is serving
as the backbone organization to connect and synchronizes ACEs prevention efforts across the region with resources, professional development, and consultative support to accelerate and share approaches for preventing and addressing trauma and ACEs
and promoting resilience. The initiative facilitates a support structure, provides a regional ACEs Prevention Strategy Map, and engages stakeholders across the region to catalyze positive health outcomes for individual communities. The project is
funded by the Michigan Health Endowment.
Preventing Suicide in Michigan Men (PRiSMM) Initiative
The project is being led by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). Over the next five years, the $4.3M funded MDHHS PRiSMM program will work to reduce the number of deaths and attempts among men
ages 25 and older by at least 10 percent. The Michigan PRiSMM initiative is one of nine projects in the U.S. to receive grant funding by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Over the period from 2014–2018, more than 6,700
Michiganders lost their lives to suicide. Two-thirds of the suicide deaths in Michigan are adult men.
CMU Interdisciplinary Center and the College of Medicine are partners in the PRiSMM grant.
CMU focuses on mental health in mid-Michigan
CMU is working with MDHHS and state/regional partners to:
- Create a comprehensive suicide prevention plan for the Great Lakes Bay Region (GLBR) that will align multi-sector partners’ efforts, resources and suicide prevention strategies focused the region’s most vulnerable populations which includes men 25+.
- Provide technical assistance, training, and facilitate the creation of a state Suicide Prevention Telehealth Training Network and Toolkit to support the deployment and replication of telehealth strategies to support the State’s Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Plan.
Regional partners in the PRiSMM project include the Michigan Health Improvement Alliance (MiHIA) and the Barb Smith Suicide Resource Response Network (SRRN). Please contact our Center if you or your organization would like to engage in the PRiSMM project.
Man Therapy Michigan
Man Therapy Michigan reshapes the conversation about suicide prevention and broader men’s mental health using stories of hope, resilience and recovery, coupled with humor, to cut through stigma and tackle issues like depression, divorce and even suicidal thoughts head on. Man Therapy Michigan provides men approaching crisis, and the people who care about them, a place to go and learn more about men’s mental health, examine their own mental health, and consider a wide array of actions that can put them on the path to treatment and recovery.
GLS Campus Suicide Prevention Project
The GLS Campus Suicide Prevention Project is a grant funded by SAMHSA. The project will improve the identification, treatment and support for students at risk of suicide and suicide attempts. It will strengthen protective factors that promote mental health, minimize suicide risk factors, and reduce suicides and attempts.
Training and resource connections
Living Works
Suicide can be prevented, and everyone has a role to play. No matter what that role is, our training programs prepare individuals, organizations,
and communities to make a difference.
- ASIST - Two-day training to learn how to prevent suicide by recognizing signs, providing a skilled intervention, and developing a safety plan to keep someone
alive.
- SafeTALK - Half-day training to recognize when someone is thinking about suicide and connect them to an intervention provider.
- Online self-directed training.
