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Housing and transportation for seniors: Interview the Marie Gress, co-chair of WHI Healthy Aging Committee
We spoke with Marie Gress, co-chair of the WHI Healthy Aging Collaborative, to learn more about the collaborative’s recent work and its focus on critical issues affecting seniors in Washtenaw County. How did you come to co-chair the Healthy Aging Collaborative? When I joined, the Healthy Aging Collaborative had already decided to focus on transportation,…
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National strategic framework on healthy aging
In May of this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released “Aging in the United States: A Strategic Framework for a National Plan on Aging” through the Administration for Community Living (ACL). “The rapidly growing population of older adults creates an urgent need for thoughtful planning and coordinated action to strengthen the…
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2023 Collaborative Health Impact Award winner
In December, the Washtenaw community voted to award the 2023 Collaborative Health Impact Award to the Behavioral Health Collaborative for Young Black Men & Boys.
Funded by the Michigan Health Endowment, the project is a collaboration between Packard Health and the University of Michigan School of Social Work Curtis Center for Health Equity’s Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) Project.