Center for Healthy Communities

The Center for Healthy Communities (CHC) works collaboratively with partners to transform public health systems and improve the health of communities through assessment, evaluation, and continuous quality improvement. CHC uses a community-based participatory approach to projects and offers expertise in a wide variety of services such as conceptualization, design, data collection and management, data analyses, and facilitation and planning. CHC offers expertise in community health improvement, tribal health and wellness, health impact assessment, and prevention across the lifecourse.

CHC Centers of Work

Center for Native Health Wellness

Dedicated to serving Native communities by engaging Tribal leaders, supporting culturally grounded wellbeing efforts, improving data quality, being trustworthy advocates, and fostering collaborative partnerships.

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Center for Quality Family Support

Empowering home visiting providers through compassionate support, enhancing program quality, workforce development, and serving as the State Office for key family support programs in Michigan.

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Office of Learning and Improvement Methods

CHC helps partners provide equitable, high-quality services through expert consultation, training, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and translating quality methods into practice.

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Office of Women’s Health and Birth Equity

Collaborating with partners to transform conditions affecting families during the perinatal period by providing expertise, translating public health concepts into practice, and leading with a commitment to continuous learning and balanced approaches.

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Office of Public Health Improvement

Coordinating the Michigan Local Public Health Accreditation Program, supports performance improvement and accreditation readiness, and offers various services to enhance public health quality and accountability.

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Center Highlights Options

Community Health Improvement

CHC understands that, while models of community health improvement are often depicted as linear or cyclical, the reality is that community health improvement is dynamic and ever changing.

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Health Impact Assessment

Policy decisions at the federal, state, local, and organizational level impact population health; however, the health implications of policy decisions are not always well understood or taken into consideration as part of the policymaking process.

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Prevention Across the Lifecourse

CHC supports projects designed around the idea that healthy babies, children, and adolescents have the best chance of becoming healthy adults. Health outcomes are determined by many factors’ early life exposure and experiences.

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