The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) and its partners $2.9 million over three years to increase the number of community health workers in West Michigan.
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The 50-member Grand Rapids Community Master Plan Steering Committee met for the first time this week to explore avenues of how the Community Master Plan can better represent and serve Grand Rapids residents.
Study finds housing-first model improves overall well-being
Community Rebuilders report shows permanent supportive housing worked for 47 households studied. Courtesy Community Rebuilders
A nonprofit that provides permanent supportive housing for low-income, physically or mentally disabled, and long-term homeless families in Kent County published a study that shows its programs are improving consumer well-being over time.
Grand Rapids-based Community Rebuilders engaged Public Sector Consultants to conduct a Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Evaluation Report, prepared this spring, that evaluated a sample size of 47 households in Kent County that have been served by Community Rebuilders’ PSH programs.
As funding for the full evaluation was provided by a grant through Spectrum Health Healthier Communities, most of the households included in the sample size 35 were located in Spectrum Health Healthier Communities’ Neighborhoods of Focus (see graphic), which are 17 low-inc