Events
The WHI event calendar includes details about workgroup and stakeholder activities. Each WHI workgroup meets regularly to advance its vision and improve community health, health equity, and health care.
CHRT Offices – The Dome
Community Advisory Board Monthly Meeting
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe Community Advisory Board, is a diverse group of Washtenaw county residents that provide insight, expertise, and a lived-experience perspective to the WHI, including it’s steering committee, working groups, and other initiatives. Additionally, CAB members serve as trusted community messengers that share information with their community, while also lifting community voice within the WHI. These ... Read more
Health and Social Service Integration Summit
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIOur community has identified access to services, both to health care and resources that address the social drivers of health, as a critical issue. For those with significant, ongoing health AND social needs, access to coordinated, complex services is particularly challenging. In 2025, the WHI will prioritize advancing community level strategies to effectively promote integration of ... Read more
WHI Stakeholders Meeting – Integrating Health and Social Services
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIJoin us on December 10, from 3-5pm, in person or online, to hear from leaders of successful community care hubs in New York, Maine, and the Kansas City region. These speakers will share information about health, behavioral health, and social service integration efforts in their communities and how the community care hub framework has helped ... Read more
WHI Communications Committee
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe WHI Communications Committee is a group of communications professionals who are committed to promoting the work of WHI stakeholders, member organizations, and work group projects. Committee members include Liz Conlin (chair), re:group, inc.; Joanna Jarvi, Jewish Family Services of Ann Arbor; Erin Spanier, Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT); and Kayla Steinberg, Washtenaw ... Read more
WHI Steering Committee
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe 22 organizational and community members of the Washtenaw Health Initiative Steering Committee meet monthly to provide strategic oversight for the initiative and to set program priorities. Meeting agendas and minutes are regularly posted and available online.
WHI Steering Committee
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe 22 organizational and community members of the Washtenaw Health Initiative Steering Committee meet monthly to provide strategic oversight for the initiative and to set program priorities. Meeting agendas and minutes are regularly posted and available online.
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Work Group Meeting
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MICo-chaired by Dr. Katrina Bozada, assistant director of the University of Michigan's Psychiatric Emergency Services, and Curtis Thornton, clinical director of Home of New Vision, the Washtenaw Health Initiative’s Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Work Group includes representatives from more than a dozen of the county’s behavioral health care provider organizations. Participants can ... Read more
WHI Officers Committee
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIMembers of the Washtenaw Health Initiative Officers Committee meet monthly to discuss emerging challenges and priorities for future work. These meetings alternate between locations in Ann Arbor and Howell, Michigan.
Senior Services Work Group
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe Senior Services Work Group formed in late 2016 to identify senior service needs, to determine the cause of those needs, and to begin to address those issues so that Washtenaw County seniors–regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status–can experience healthy aging. RSVP to attend. Call-in at 888-240-2560; Access code 734 998 2478
SIM Work Group Meetings
CHRT Offices – The Dome 4251 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MIThe Livingston and Washtenaw County Community Health Innovation Region, with funding from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, works to provide patient-centered, coordinated care to frequent utilizers of emergency department services. The initiative, which is now serving more than 250 residents in the participating counties, will continue through January 2020. A number of quantitative and ... Read more