CHARM is a group of scientists and doctors that has been working on maternal and child health for more than 10 years. CHARM supports two prospective, observational studies that recruit in pregnancy and follow the mother and child for many years.

Cara Poland is on a grant providing training to community physicians and other prescribers to facilitate expansion of substance use disorders (SUD) treatment to pregnant people and in primary care. She has a separate grant specifically focusing on wo...

The MSU College of Law Immigration Law Clinic represents indigent immigrant clients in all their legal needs, with particular focus on victims of domestic violence, trafficking, and other crimes.

CMS-D is the largest provider of sequential music education outside of the regular school day for Detroit children. CMS-D provides a wide range of music courses to meet the needs and interests of their student population, including instrumental and v...

Music therapists provide treatment for a variety of conditions ranging from stress to severe issues. Services are offered to individuals of all ages and abilities in individual or group settings at the Detroit Children's Hospital. Special needs that ...

The PNC Early Music, Early Learning program and the Key Detroit Kids (KDK) program provide children ages six and under with an evidence-based early childhood music curriculum to support school readiness skills across social, emotional, cognitive, and...

General group and individual music classes and lessons to all ages in the community.

Performed with the MSU Wind Symphony on a concert featuring music by African American Composers at the Detroit School for the Arts. Community leaders and students from the MSU Community Music School-Detroit were in attendance. This concert showcased ...

Karen Salvador directs the early childhood music education programs at MSU's Community Music Schools (CMS) in East Lansing and Detroit. In that role, she selects and mentors early childhood music teachers, works closely with CMS leaders on grantwriti...

The Verses project is a literacy-based approach to the art of songwriting, composing, performing, mixing and recording. This program includes creative writing, instrumental instruction, and open mic. Students make a professional recording and present...

Faculty from the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory worked with the director of the MSU Detroit Center to design and conduct focus groups to inform their efforts to develop pipeline projects to expose diverse middle and high school youth to research c...

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...

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.

The purpose of all field education courses is to provide students opportunities to develop their professional social work skills in various settings across the state of Michigan that meet course competencies (ethics, DEI, policy, human rights, resear...

The Hearts and Minds on Babies study is a five-year implementation and evaluation study of an attachment-based intervention in Early Head Start programs. Collected data from community partners; provided training to community partners; coded and analy...

The project focuses on revitalizing existing spaces throughout Detroit by painting games and activities on playgrounds to help increase the physical activity of youth in schools and communities.

The Michigan Good Food Fund is a $30 million loan fund that supports good food entrepreneurs, particularly women and BIPOC owners, working to increase access to healthy food and spark economic opportunity in places that need it most. Serving low inco...

The Michigan Good Food Charter is an action and advocacy framework that promotes collaboration to advance a “good food system” in Michigan, that is a thriving food economy distinguished by equity, health, and sustainability. The Charter was initially...

A goal of the program is to increase the number of early care and education providers utilizing farm to education within Michigan, thus increasing access to local, healthy, affordable food for ECE settings. Outputs of the program include Identifying ...

The goal of the network is to make Michigan a leader in developing shared language for providers and producers in Farm to ECE through effective collaboration, deliberate networking, and thoughtful and intentional communication, thinking about Farm to...

The mission of the MSU Science Festival is to celebrate the many ways science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (the STEAM disciplines) touch our everyday lives and shape our future, broaden public access to informal learning environment...

Redevelopment of a traveling exhibition, creation of an online version of the exhibition, and development of extensive educational curriculum materials and educational resources.