We support and build collaborative partnerships that improve health through increased access to physical activity opportunities, healthy food, and related education and events — effecting change throughout Michigan communities.
We support and build collaborative partnerships that improve health through increased access to physical activity opportunities, healthy food, and related education and events — effecting change throughout Michigan communities.
We work to deliver practical, evidence-based solutions and achievable, innovative strategies for healthy living in healthy communities. We optimize outcomes and impact as a statewide clearinghouse for data, for communication across multiple platforms, and for best practices that help people eat healthy and move more.
We provide services, resources, and partnerships across the state of Michigan to support our mission. Our signature events and conferences promote health and physical activity. Our expert staff offer services in program design and evaluation, data management, grant writing, program and grant management, training, resource development and more. We provide evidence-based community interventions, support local capacity to improve health and share expertise through partnerships and collaborations.
With our Nation, we celebrate Indigenous People’s Day. We honor the contributions, resilience, strength, and recognize the inherent sovereignty and positive impact Indigenous people have made and continue to make across America.
Our state has one of the highest Indigenous populations in the nation with approximately 100,000 people descended from the Anishinaabek people, who established the Three Fires Confederacy throughout the Great Lakes nearly one thousand years ago. The Three Fires Confederacy includes the Ojibway (Chippewa), Odawa (Ottawa), and Odawatomi (Potawatomi).
Michigan is home to 12 federally recognized tribes and four state recognized tribes.
To learn more about Michigan’s Anishinaabe culture and for links to all Michigan tribal websites, visit the Nokomis Cultural Heritage Center.
In recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day, we will be closed Monday, October 14.