Provided research-based training and technical assistance to support the implementation of evidence-based practices to address substance use disorder among justice-involved populations.

The institute supports the preparation of university students for employment in child welfare agencies, the partnership between universities and agencies to build the workforce, action teams to address workforce challenges, and leadership development...

Conduct participatory research including scenario workshops, interviews, and planning. Co-create products based on research results for community audiences, attend community events, create tools for community use.

The Alianza is a national, intergenerational network that uses research, storytelling, and advocacy to uplift Indigenous/Latinx youth visibility, building a movement to replace youth injustice systems with long-term solutions rooted in cultura, comun...

USAID Empowered Youth was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to empower Kenyan youth ages 18-24 years old and adolescent girls ages 15-19 years old by increasing their prospective economic opportunities and building the c...

This project was in partnership with New Level Sports Ministries to develop an urban garden in a neighborhood in Battle Creek, Michigan. The goal is to create a community of gardeners to help thwart hunger among the citizens of inner-city "food deser...

Street Teams are student-run, creative collaborations within ComArtSci. Interdisciplinary groups of students partner with nonprofit organizations and assist them with media projects. They have real-world learning opportunities while giving back to th...

Provided an eight-day summer residential camp for 60 high school students from across Michigan interested in medicine and health care-related careers. Strive to recruit a diverse cohort of students each year to increase diversity among medical studen...

Identify organizations for funding. Measure outcomes of funded organizations.

This study seeks to understand how research funded by the Wallace Foundation is used, by whom, and in what contexts. Draw on frameworks to conceptualize research use as the diffusion of an innovation within ecological systems and with a critical lens...

Provided research-based training and technical assistance to multiagency teams addressing public safety and violent crime. This involved direct consultation (e.g., analyzing crime trends; discussing evidence-based strategies; assisting with strategic...

Provide family/children’s law assistance, advocacy, representation, and services.

Direct the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a six-week residency program in East Lansing for 25 young African leaders. The Fellows are required to do 15 hours of community service. They are placed as volunteers at local community organizations in Lansi...

Sport-based life skills interventions offer compelling pathways to enhancing youth agency, psychosocial development, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Evidence shows the benefits of sport programs to youth empowerment, promoting health and wel...

Flint Is Family in Three Acts is a multipart exhibition by renowned artist LaToya Ruby Frazier. For five years, Frazier researched and collaborated with two poets, activists, mothers and residents of Flint, Michigan—Shea Cobb and Amber Hasan—as t...

This is a multisite research project examining the potential benefit of training early intervention providers in the Part C system to use an evidence-based parent-mediated intervention with toddlers with social communication delays.

Community-based research study evaluating the impact of the Domestic Violence Housing First model on domestic violence survivors' safety, housing stability, and well-being over time.

The Greater Flint Coronavirus Taskforce on Racial Inequities is committed to bringing awareness, analysis, and action to the root causes of disparities during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in order to ensure racial equity within and across organiza...

Provided research-based training, technical assistance, and evaluation services to the City of Detroit and its efforts to address violent crime.

Collaborated with local school districts to understand the relationship between student academic achievement and well-being and digital inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Provided multiple interviews to various local and national media outlets (television, online, and print) focusing on impacts of legally restricting abortion access; proposed legislation limiting health care to transgender and nonbinary youth and adul...

Formed during the water crisis, this multisector network continues to be tasked with creating trusted recovery communication to Flint residents, especially those who are hard to reach. The group meets biweekly, receiving updates from the City of Flin...

Hosted three regional programs (Detroit, Macomb, Lansing) over the course of eight weeks at varying times of the year to expose high school students to medicine and health care-related careers. The goal is to create a pathway for students from underr...

The Michigan Farm to ECE Network collaborates so children ages birth to 5 can grow, choose, and eat nutritious, local food in early care and education settings. Farm to ECE in Michigan includes local food sourcing, nutrition education, and gardening....

Capacity-building for community organizations and local governments to support opioid prevention and treatment efforts.