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PARTNERS
CONSORTIUM FOUNDING MEMBERS
SPECTRUM HEALTH - HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
The mission of Spectrum Health is to improve health, inspire hope and save lives. To fulfill this mission Healthier Communities focuses on reaching the highest level of health equity possible with the people, neighborhoods and regions we serve.
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Ferris State University prepares students for successful careers, responsible citizenship, and lifelong learning. Through its many partnerships and its career-oriented, broad-based education, Ferris serves our rapidly changing global economy and society.
DISTRICT # 10 HEALTH DEPARTMENT
To promote and enhance the health of our communities and environment through protection, prevention, and intervention.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH – CENTRAL MICHIGAN
To promote community inclusion and whole-person wellness through comprehensive and quality integrated services to individuals with a serious emotional disturbance, intellectual/developmental disability, serious mental illness, or co-occurring substance use disorder.
SPECTRUM HEALTH - HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
The mission of Spectrum Health is to improve health, inspire hope and save lives. To fulfill this mission Healthier Communities focuses on reaching the highest level of health equity possible with the people, neighborhoods and regions we serve.
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Ferris State University prepares students for successful careers, responsible citizenship, and lifelong learning. Through its many partnerships and its career-oriented, broad-based education, Ferris serves our rapidly changing global economy and society.
DISTRICT # 10 HEALTH DEPARTMENT
To promote and enhance the health of our communities and environment through protection, prevention, and intervention.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH – CENTRAL MICHIGAN
To promote community inclusion and whole-person wellness through comprehensive and quality integrated services to individuals with a serious emotional disturbance, intellectual/developmental disability, serious mental illness, or co-occurring substance use disorder.
SPECTRUM HEALTH - HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
The mission of Spectrum Health is to improve health, inspire hope and save lives. To fulfill this mission Healthier Communities focuses on reaching the highest level of health equity possible with the people, neighborhoods and regions we serve.
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Ferris State University prepares students for successful careers, responsible citizenship, and lifelong learning. Through its many partnerships and its career-oriented, broad-based education, Ferris serves our rapidly changing global economy and society.
DISTRICT # 10 HEALTH DEPARTMENT
To promote and enhance the health of our communities and environment through protection, prevention, and intervention.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH – CENTRAL MICHIGAN
To promote community inclusion and whole-person wellness through comprehensive and quality integrated services to individuals with a serious emotional disturbance, intellectual/developmental disability, serious mental illness, or co-occurring substance use disorder.
SPECTRUM HEALTH - HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
The mission of Spectrum Health is to improve health, inspire hope and save lives. To fulfill this mission Healthier Communities focuses on reaching the highest level of health equity possible with the people, neighborhoods and regions we serve.
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Ferris State University prepares students for successful careers, responsible citizenship, and lifelong learning. Through its many partnerships and its career-oriented, broad-based education, Ferris serves our rapidly changing global economy and society.
DISTRICT # 10 HEALTH DEPARTMENT
To promote and enhance the health of our communities and environment through protection, prevention, and intervention.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH – CENTRAL MICHIGAN
To promote community inclusion and whole-person wellness through comprehensive and quality integrated services to individuals with a serious emotional disturbance, intellectual/developmental disability, serious mental illness, or co-occurring substance use disorder.
SPECTRUM HEALTH - HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
The mission of Spectrum Health is to improve health, inspire hope and save lives. To fulfill this mission Healthier Communities focuses on reaching the highest level of health equity possible with the people, neighborhoods and regions we serve.
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Ferris State University prepares students for successful careers, responsible citizenship, and lifelong learning. Through its many partnerships and its career-oriented, broad-based education, Ferris serves our rapidly changing global economy and society.
DISTRICT # 10 HEALTH DEPARTMENT
To promote and enhance the health of our communities and environment through protection, prevention, and intervention.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH – CENTRAL MICHIGAN
To promote community inclusion and whole-person wellness through comprehensive and quality integrated services to individuals with a serious emotional disturbance, intellectual/developmental disability, serious mental illness, or co-occurring substance use disorder.
SPECTRUM HEALTH - HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
The mission of Spectrum Health is to improve health, inspire hope and save lives. To fulfill this mission Healthier Communities focuses on reaching the highest level of health equity possible with the people, neighborhoods and regions we serve.
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Ferris State University prepares students for successful careers, responsible citizenship, and lifelong learning. Through its many partnerships and its career-oriented, broad-based education, Ferris serves our rapidly changing global economy and society.
DISTRICT # 10 HEALTH DEPARTMENT
To promote and enhance the health of our communities and environment through protection, prevention, and intervention.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH – CENTRAL MICHIGAN
To promote community inclusion and whole-person wellness through comprehensive and quality integrated services to individuals with a serious emotional disturbance, intellectual/developmental disability, serious mental illness, or co-occurring substance use disorder.
SPECTRUM HEALTH - HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
The mission of Spectrum Health is to improve health, inspire hope and save lives. To fulfill this mission Healthier Communities focuses on reaching the highest level of health equity possible with the people, neighborhoods and regions we serve.
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Ferris State University prepares students for successful careers, responsible citizenship, and lifelong learning. Through its many partnerships and its career-oriented, broad-based education, Ferris serves our rapidly changing global economy and society.
DISTRICT # 10 HEALTH DEPARTMENT
To promote and enhance the health of our communities and environment through protection, prevention, and intervention.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH – CENTRAL MICHIGAN
To promote community inclusion and whole-person wellness through comprehensive and quality integrated services to individuals with a serious emotional disturbance, intellectual/developmental disability, serious mental illness, or co-occurring substance use disorder.
SPECTRUM HEALTH - HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
The mission of Spectrum Health is to improve health, inspire hope and save lives. To fulfill this mission Healthier Communities focuses on reaching the highest level of health equity possible with the people, neighborhoods and regions we serve.
FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Ferris State University prepares students for successful careers, responsible citizenship, and lifelong learning. Through its many partnerships and its career-oriented, broad-based education, Ferris serves our rapidly changing global economy and society.
DISTRICT # 10 HEALTH DEPARTMENT
To promote and enhance the health of our communities and environment through protection, prevention, and intervention.
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH – CENTRAL MICHIGAN
To promote community inclusion and whole-person wellness through comprehensive and quality integrated services to individuals with a serious emotional disturbance, intellectual/developmental disability, serious mental illness, or co-occurring substance use disorder.
CONSORTIUM ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
2ND CHANCE GRACE HOUSE
2nd Chance Grace House is a place where teens and adults will be able to satisfy their court-mandated community services hours. They provide instruction and guidance in life skills to youth and adults who deserve a 2nd Chance. They believe in helping those who come to them in starting where they are, it doesn't matter where they've been, and helping them to build life skills to go forward.
MICHIGAN OPIOID PRESCRIBING ENGAGEMENT NETWORK
Michigan OPEN was founded in an effort to develop a preventive approach to the opioid epidemic in the state of Michigan by tailoring postoperative and acute care opioid prescribing.
TEN16 RECOVERY NETWORK
We promote recovery and wellness at every stage of substance misuse through shared experience, proven steps, and supportive accountability.
SISTERS OF SOBRIETY
Sisters of Sobriety focuses on helping women start to build a solid foundation for a new way of life in a structured, caring environment - free of drugs and alcohol. A life of hope and greater opportunity to develop the changes needed for a successful, long term life in recovery.
MICHIGAN OPIOID PARTNERSHIP – MUNSON HEALTH
Munson Medical Center plans to use the Michigan Opioid Partnership funds to develop a program that will help patients presenting in the Emergency Department with opioid use disorder to have immediate access to a treatment and maintenance program.
MID-STATE HEALTH NETWORK
The mission of Mid-State Health Network is to ensure access to high-quality, locally-delivered, effective and accountable public behavioral health and substance use disorder services provided by its participating MEMBER.
MECOSTA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
To provide the highest quality law enforcement for our citizens and families in Mecosta County through compassionate, personal care and superior service, a positive environment for our citizens, families, and employees, collaboration for better services and organizational vitality and fiscal responsibility.
HEADWAY
The Headway Coalition is a vibrant group of community members that meet bi-monthly to achieve population level reduction in youth substance abuse in Newaygo County. The coalition has action teams that represent our priority areas: alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, and marijuana. Each action team creates a yearly action plan to address their priority area using community level data and the coalition's strategic plan. We aim to change our community by improving systems and policies to create a drug free community. The coalition executes prevention strategies that match our local conditions to create a more vibrant community and a brighter future for Newaygo County youth.
FAMILIES AGAINST NARCOTICS – FAN
An integral part of FAN's mission is to remove the stigma associated with addiction through education and to inform the community of the growing problem of substance dependency or addiction among all ages, and the increasing use of heroin by our young people.
FAMILY HEALTH CARE
To provide quality, integrated and comprehensive health care services that are accessible to all. Family Health Care (FHC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 1967. As one of Michigan's first community health centers, FHC developed a 'one-stop-shop' concept for all health care services. Services offered at FHC include family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, comprehensive dental service, full-service pharmacies, laboratory, x-ray, behavioral health care, therapy services, health education, and school-based programming. FHC has health centers located in Baldwin, Big Rapids, Cadillac, Grant, McBain, and White Cloud. Our team is composed of diverse and passionate individuals who want to impact the communities we serve positively.
ARBOR CIRCLE OF NEWAYGO
To transform the lives of children, adults, and families facing mental health, substance use and family concerns in a caring partnership with our clients and diverse community.
ANGELS OF ACTION
Angels of Action’s mission is to provide children and their families, access to food, essential needs and community resources with love, respect and understanding.
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH - NORTHERN MICHIGAN OPIOID RESPONSE CONSORTIUM (NMORC)
To engage Northern Michigan in a coordinated response to reduce opioid use disorders.
MHA KEYSTONE CENTER
Supporting healthcare providers to achieve excellence in the outcomes desired by the people they serve.
GREAT MOMS
Our specialized GREAT MOMs program with Maternal Fetal Medicine offers pregnant women comprehensive and compassionate care for opioid addiction through outpatient buprenorphine treatment and prenatal care. In the postpartum period, patients are connected with a community provider to continue medicine-assisted treatment (MAT).
FERRIS COLLEGIATE RECOVERY EDUCATION AND WELLNESS (CREW)
This innovative initiative offers a comprehensive response to the issues of alcohol and other drugs on a campus and to students living in the community. It integrates a collection of prevention, early intervention, treatment and peer support activities; making them available to all students, regardless of whether they have a mild, moderate or severe substance use disorder, in early or established recovery.
CENTRAL MICHIGAN DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENT
The mission of the Central Michigan District Health Department is to promote health and physical well-being by providing preventive health care, education, & environmental safety to all MEMBER of the community.
MSU EXTENSION (MiSUPER)
The overall goal of the MiSUPER project is to increase awareness of opioid misuse in rural communities regarding prevention, addiction treatment options, and recovery support so that community MEMBER and healthcare professionals can recognize signs of misuse, suggest options for professional treatments and support those in recovery.
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER – MID-MICHIGAN
The Mid Central Regional Area Health Education Center and other regional partners play an integral role in teaching and training the next generation of health professionals along with the College of Medicine at Central Michigan University. This regional center is non-profit organization committed to serving our community and regional partners including service agencies, health departments, and the health profession colleges at the four universities located in the region, municipalities, high schools, community colleges and other groups interested in increasing workforce in the health professions.
HARMONIZED HEALING
We offer a safe refuge where individuals are encouraged to identify and connect with their inner self, those whom they care for, and their environment. Where individuals can heal from life experiences, trauma, depression, anxiety and many other aspects of mental health.
FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES
Our mission is to provide Christ-centered hope and healing through biblically-based, chaplain led, volunteer jail ministries. Our vision is for every incarcerated person to experience new life in Christ
and develop healthy family, church, and community relationships.
and develop healthy family, church, and community relationships.
GINGRICH DENTAL, P.C.
At Gingrich Dental, PC, we value our patient relationships, making it our priority to deliver gentle compassionate care that you deserve from a dentist in Big Rapids. We work hard to make you feel at ease by providing exceptional patient care in a relaxed, convenient atmosphere. We strive to develop lifelong relationships with our patients by combining the latest dental technology with a professional and compassionate staff. The result is a beautiful, healthy smile that lasts a lifetime.
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH
To coordinate, plan, and advocate for improved health for michigan’s rural residents and communities.
Michigan Works! Association
To continually improve a workforce development system that produces a workforce with the required skills to attract, retain and expand business, and enhance our regional economy.
2ND CHANCE GRACE HOUSE
2nd Chance Grace House is a place where teens and adults will be able to satisfy their court-mandated community services hours. They provide instruction and guidance in life skills to youth and adults who deserve a 2nd Chance. They believe in helping those who come to them in starting where they are, it doesn't matter where they've been, and helping them to build life skills to go forward.
MICHIGAN OPIOID PRESCRIBING ENGAGEMENT NETWORK
Michigan OPEN was founded in an effort to develop a preventive approach to the opioid epidemic in the state of Michigan by tailoring postoperative and acute care opioid prescribing.
TEN16 RECOVERY NETWORK
We promote recovery and wellness at every stage of substance misuse through shared experience, proven steps, and supportive accountability.
SISTERS OF SOBRIETY
Sisters of Sobriety focuses on helping women start to build a solid foundation for a new way of life in a structured, caring environment - free of drugs and alcohol. A life of hope and greater opportunity to develop the changes needed for a successful, long term life in recovery.
MICHIGAN OPIOID PARTNERSHIP – MUNSON HEALTH
Munson Medical Center plans to use the Michigan Opioid Partnership funds to develop a program that will help patients presenting in the Emergency Department with opioid use disorder to have immediate access to a treatment and maintenance program.
MID-STATE HEALTH NETWORK
The mission of Mid-State Health Network is to ensure access to high-quality, locally-delivered, effective and accountable public behavioral health and substance use disorder services provided by its participating MEMBER.
MECOSTA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
To provide the highest quality law enforcement for our citizens and families in Mecosta County through compassionate, personal care and superior service, a positive environment for our citizens, families, and employees, collaboration for better services and organizational vitality and fiscal responsibility.
HEADWAY
The Headway Coalition is a vibrant group of community members that meet bi-monthly to achieve population level reduction in youth substance abuse in Newaygo County. The coalition has action teams that represent our priority areas: alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, and marijuana. Each action team creates a yearly action plan to address their priority area using community level data and the coalition's strategic plan. We aim to change our community by improving systems and policies to create a drug free community. The coalition executes prevention strategies that match our local conditions to create a more vibrant community and a brighter future for Newaygo County youth.
FAMILIES AGAINST NARCOTICS – FAN
An integral part of FAN's mission is to remove the stigma associated with addiction through education and to inform the community of the growing problem of substance dependency or addiction among all ages, and the increasing use of heroin by our young people.
FAMILY HEALTH CARE
To provide quality, integrated and comprehensive health care services that are accessible to all. Family Health Care (FHC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization established in 1967. As one of Michigan's first community health centers, FHC developed a 'one-stop-shop' concept for all health care services. Services offered at FHC include family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, comprehensive dental service, full-service pharmacies, laboratory, x-ray, behavioral health care, therapy services, health education, and school-based programming. FHC has health centers located in Baldwin, Big Rapids, Cadillac, Grant, McBain, and White Cloud. Our team is composed of diverse and passionate individuals who want to impact the communities we serve positively.
ARBOR CIRCLE OF NEWAYGO
To transform the lives of children, adults, and families facing mental health, substance use and family concerns in a caring partnership with our clients and diverse community.
ANGELS OF ACTION
Angels of Action’s mission is to provide children and their families, access to food, essential needs and community resources with love, respect and understanding.
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH - NORTHERN MICHIGAN OPIOID RESPONSE CONSORTIUM (NMORC)
To engage Northern Michigan in a coordinated response to reduce opioid use disorders.
MHA KEYSTONE CENTER
Supporting healthcare providers to achieve excellence in the outcomes desired by the people they serve.
GREAT MOMS
Our specialized GREAT MOMs program with Maternal Fetal Medicine offers pregnant women comprehensive and compassionate care for opioid addiction through outpatient buprenorphine treatment and prenatal care. In the postpartum period, patients are connected with a community provider to continue medicine-assisted treatment (MAT).
FERRIS COLLEGIATE RECOVERY EDUCATION AND WELLNESS (CREW)
This innovative initiative offers a comprehensive response to the issues of alcohol and other drugs on a campus and to students living in the community. It integrates a collection of prevention, early intervention, treatment and peer support activities; making them available to all students, regardless of whether they have a mild, moderate or severe substance use disorder, in early or established recovery.
CENTRAL MICHIGAN DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENT
The mission of the Central Michigan District Health Department is to promote health and physical well-being by providing preventive health care, education, & environmental safety to all MEMBER of the community.
MSU EXTENSION (MiSUPER)
The overall goal of the MiSUPER project is to increase awareness of opioid misuse in rural communities regarding prevention, addiction treatment options, and recovery support so that community MEMBER and healthcare professionals can recognize signs of misuse, suggest options for professional treatments and support those in recovery.
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER – MID-MICHIGAN
The Mid Central Regional Area Health Education Center and other regional partners play an integral role in teaching and training the next generation of health professionals along with the College of Medicine at Central Michigan University. This regional center is non-profit organization committed to serving our community and regional partners including service agencies, health departments, and the health profession colleges at the four universities located in the region, municipalities, high schools, community colleges and other groups interested in increasing workforce in the health professions.
HARMONIZED HEALING
We offer a safe refuge where individuals are encouraged to identify and connect with their inner self, those whom they care for, and their environment. Where individuals can heal from life experiences, trauma, depression, anxiety and many other aspects of mental health.
FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES
Our mission is to provide Christ-centered hope and healing through biblically-based, chaplain led, volunteer jail ministries. Our vision is for every incarcerated person to experience new life in Christ
and develop healthy family, church, and community relationships.
and develop healthy family, church, and community relationships.
GINGRICH DENTAL, P.C.
At Gingrich Dental, PC, we value our patient relationships, making it our priority to deliver gentle compassionate care that you deserve from a dentist in Big Rapids. We work hard to make you feel at ease by providing exceptional patient care in a relaxed, convenient atmosphere. We strive to develop lifelong relationships with our patients by combining the latest dental technology with a professional and compassionate staff. The result is a beautiful, healthy smile that lasts a lifetime.
MICHIGAN CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH
To coordinate, plan, and advocate for improved health for michigan’s rural residents and communities.
Michigan Works! Association
To continually improve a workforce development system that produces a workforce with the required skills to attract, retain and expand business, and enhance our regional economy.
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