Program areas at MPHI
Center for diversified government solutions provides strategies to strengthen client relations in the Public Health workforce. We provide expertise to build infrastructure and staff capacity to successfully implement state and national initiatives designed to improve Public Health through the core values of mphi: servant leadership, Health equity & social justice, authentic relationships, and quality & excellence.
Center for healthy communities (chc) works collaboratively with partners to improve Public Health systems and the Health of communities. Chc specializes in community-based research and evaluation and provides capacity-building assistance in performance management, quality improvement, and community Health assessment, as well as Health improvement planning, strategic planning, and workforce development. With rich experience in a wide range of topic areas, a majority of chc's approach is community based and participatory, ensuring that processes and products align with partners' values, needs, and priorities. Chc houses mphi's center for native Health & wellness, which serves native communities as they pursue optimal Health and well-being for their people.
Strategy services division includes a portfolio of work designed to strategically position mphi to address various social determinants of Health, such as juvenile justice and supporting formerly incarcerated people. Mphi serves as the care coordination agency of Michigan's juvenile justice re-entry program. Mphi works with partners and communities to improve successful transitions of youth from juvenile residential treatment facilities or programs into their local community. By planning for a youth's transition and providing clear connections to support and services, mphi and the community position youth to succeed and lead productive and independent lives. Success in this mission enables our youth to achieve a higher quality of life and keep our communities safe for everyone. Cultural responsiveness is a key tenet of the work and is emphasized as a distinct focus on culturally responsive engagement. The strategy services division includes the work of the center for social enterprise, the center for technology solutions, and the business solutions group.
The center for strategic Health partnerships (cshp) operates at the interface of patients, families, clinicians, Public Health, researchers, communities, and other stakeholders to engage multi-collaborative partnerships in supporting better Health outcomes for underserved populations. Cshp provides project management for national, state, and local level projects. Services include: project development and management, strategic planning, education and training, leadership development, and workforce development. Cshp houses the mi ace initiative, a statewide collective impact network designed to promote evidence-based, data-driven prevention strategies to reduce adverse childhood experiences.
Center for data management and translational research (cdmtr) works with partners to collect and analyze data, and use information for Health system and population Health improvement. The team, composed of evaluators, researchers, statisticians, and Health information specialists, can design a project from start to finish or contribute specific roles. Cdmtr's expertise includes grant writing, evaluation design, survey research, focus groups, using large administrative data sets, geographic information systems, data visualization, analysis, and provision of technical assistance. The work of cdmtr is interdisciplinary and intersectoral, grounded in the understanding that Health and well-being are products of interacting social systems, community collaboration, policy, economics, relationships, and behavior. Cdmtr also supports the advancement of the nursing field and works to address Michigan's nursing shortage. The team provides evaluation, technical assistance, and consultation on issues and programs related to the Health care workforce and policy, with focus on the nursing workforce and its regulation, education, and practice.
Education and communication services (ecs) works with multiple partners both in person and virtually to expand the knowledge and capacity to promote Public Health. Ecs offers event management for learning events ranging from one-day workshops to multiday conferences; creates communication strategies and products while helping brand overall messages; facilitates processes to support productive brainstorming, strategic planning, and process improvement; and builds custom online training courses and multimedia presentations with a focus on outcomes-based education and real-world application. In addition, ecs manages the interactive learning center (ilc) at mphi, where a number of these planning and educational events occur, and offers continuing education services for many events throughout the year.
Center for national prevention initiatives (cnpi) provides resources to improve and sustain local, state, and national efforts to reduce infant and child mortality by delivering data support, training and technical assistance to fatality review programs throughout the u.s. cnpi houses the Health resources and services administration (hrsa)- funded national center for fatality review and prevention, the data coordinating center for the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc), and national Institute of Health's (nih) sudden unexpected infant death and sudden death in the young case registry. Cnpi also receives funding from the federal emergency management agency (fema) to implement a fire education and safety program in high-risk communities across the u.s. cnpi's collaborators include national, tribal, state, and local partners on a wide range of strategies that strengthen existing maternal child Health and injury programs. The goal of all cnpi programs is to learn from child deaths to prevent future deaths and ultimately reduce risks to children and families.
Center for Health equity practice (chep) helps those who work in Public Health and related fields understand Health equity and social justice to address the social determinants of Health and reduce the likelihood that people are disadvantaged because of their race, class, or gender. Chep collaborates with multisector partners to implement programs, conduct research and evaluation, and support strategies that address the root causes of inequities, including workshops, technical assistance, training, facilitation, coaching, and consultations, all centered around the practice of equity and social justice. Projects within the center for Health equity practice speak directly to issues of poverty, inequality, and the social systems that contribute to them. The center hosts detroit Health innovations (d-hi). D-hi is dedicated to collaborating with community partners to promote Health initiatives and implement prevention programs while addressing Health inequities and social determinants of Health in the detroit metropolitan area.
Administrative projects - the grants and contracts office provides collaborative program services for federal, state, and local agencies. The Institute is the prime contractor on these projects and issues subcontracts to a variety of agencies whose specialized expertise is unique to the agency. The Institute manages collaborative projects with state agencies and works in partnership to monitor progress of projects in order to provide high-quality fiscal management.
Cancer control services provides evaluation expertise to the state of Michigan's cancer control programs. It offers technical assistance in such areas as cancer prevention, patient navigation, referral, tracking and follow up; strategic planning, partnership and event coordination; administration and fiduciary responsibilities; quality assurance and improvement in cancer-related services; and database management. Expertise is also provided in statistics, financial analysis, and hiring support.
Center for child and family Health (ccfh) collaborates with multidisciplinary stakeholders to prevent infant and child mortality, improve pregnancy outcomes, promote oral Health, strengthen supports to vulnerable populations, and increase the Health and well-being of children and families. The ccfh team works on surveillance and data management systems, policy compliance monitoring, program evaluation, needs assessments, training and technical assistance, and quality improvement projects. They are experts in facilitation, focus groups, and qualitative and quantitative methods to guide program and policy strategies.
Center for culturally responsive engagement (ccre) ensures the people who are most impacted are at the center of conversations that seek to find solutions to problems affecting them. Ccre engages with its clients using culturally responsive approaches for evaluation, learning, research, training, facilitation, and strategic planning. Its services are developed around culturally defined values, knowledge, and beliefs of the population served and the context in which they occur. Through its work ccre offers tenets to help its partners adopt engagement processes that are culturally responsive and utilize a racial equity lens. Ccre systematically identifies and addresses racism, cultural stereotypes, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression. Its partners are philanthropic, governmental, nonprofit, and academic institutions, as well as historically marginalized groups driving social processes where their voices have previously been silenced.