The federally funded program, Gospal against AIDS, is a black organization to educate black clergy and youth on HIV, HCV, COVID. Visits are made to communities and religious organizations to provide black clergy, youth, and others information on HIV,...

A needs assessment document was sent to all the surgical specialties at the Statewide Campus System. The purpose of this assessment is to determine what educational needs the SCS may fill for member hospitals and specialties.

The goal of this program is two-fold. The first, to design a metric for identifying health care disparities and to then develop a curriculum for patient safety improvement and decrease hospital readmission rates that focuses on improvement in healthc...

Started in 2011 to introduce students at Detroit’s Benjamin Carson High School to careers in medicine, the Future DOcs program has grown to include the Macomb and Lansing regions. Future DOcs exposes high school students interested in pursuing a care...

Services are provided to K-12 districts on promoting strategies for engaging youth as partners in school systems change -- academic, school culture, and supportive services for student physical health and psycho-social well-being. This work, a partne...

Workshops, webinars and training opportunities are provided for Michigan child welfare workers, supervisors, and foster parents. Designed in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services we coordinate a consortium of Michigan ...

Held online and in person forums attended by local officials. Goal was to inform on the parameters of how American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds could be spent and better understand community needs.

Helped the City of Detroit identify short and long term actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, provided expert advice on the most credible, aggressive and economically viable targets, developed a replicable and complete Climate Action Plan...

Partnering with a metro Detroit middle school to investigate the impact of restorative practices on school climate and exclusionary discipline outcomes. The study aims are to: (a) examine whether establishing a restorative justice policy led to less ...

Professional development intervention to support educators' mental health and high quality, relationship based practices with children and families.

Outreach and working with underrepresented international analysts to ensure they are able to gain relevant training and certification to participate in the international intelligence community.

Outreach and working with underrepresented international analysts to ensure they are able to gain relevant training and certification to participate in the international intelligence community.

A team of students participate in Operation UNITED which is a grassroots effort by the Detroit Office of the FBI and the Detroit Police Department to identify homicide victims from cases that have gone cold. These individuals are exhumed and bones ar...

The Department of Political Science's Public Service Internship Program facilitates student internships with state legislators, the Governor's Office, State Supreme Court and lower courts, local government offices, nonprofits, lobbying and public rel...

Detroit Ceasefire has been a cornerstone of Detroit’s violence reduction strategies. Ceasefire involves a focused deterrence model aimed at gang- and group- related violence. It involves direct communication of a deterrence message to high-risk indiv...

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Detroit CBCR seeks to reduce crime in select micro-hotspots in the Eastside of Detroit by directly addressing crime through enforcement strategies and by addressing underlying causes of crime. The project s...

Detroit CGIC seeks to prevent violent crime by identifying perpetrators, linking criminal activities, and identifying sources of crime guns for immediate disruption, investigation, and prosecution. It is an interagency collaboration focused on the im...

The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) are federally funded out-of-school time programs for high-poverty, low-performing schools administered by state departments of education. This project is an ongoing comprehensive evaluation of s...

This initiative is an arrest diversion program which seeks to address low level offenses, including opioid and other illicit drug use, as public health issues rather than criminal issues providing immediate access to comprehensive, community-based se...

Detroit Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) involves a multi-agency collaboration of local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies, community partners, and a research partner (i.e. MSU School of Criminal Justice) following a data-driven strategic ...

PGLD is a place-based crime prevention strategy which involved the establishment of a formal partnership between the city of Detroit, Detroit Police Department (DPD), and small business owners and parcel owners. The crime control strategy employed by...

This project seeks to address opioid and violent crime within the city of Detroit. This includes the assessment of the geospatial distribution of opioid and violent crimes incidents to identify patterns which can inform strategic and tactical underst...

The primary outcome of a GCIC is the identification of armed violent offenders for investigation and prosecution. Other outcomes include the identification of crime gun sources, efficient resource allocation, providing decision makers with the most a...

With a focus on Detroit’s 9th precinct, which has historically experienced the highest levels of violent crime in the city, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office (WCPO) is attacking the problem from multiple angles. First, it developed a dedicated NFS...

Evaluation of a mentoring program for people returning to Wayne county on parole. Graduate and undergraduate students participated.