Michigan's Women, Infants & Children program, providing supplemental nutrition, breastfeeding information, and other resources for healthy mothers & babies.
Information on the Family Independence Program, State Disability Assistance, SSI, Refugee, and other cash assistance.
If you cannot afford child care, payment assistance is available.
Children's Special Health Care Services information and FAQ's.
Information on assistance with home repairs, heat and utility bills, relocation, home ownership, burials, home energy, and eligibility requirements.
Information on the Food Assistance Program, eligibility requirements, and other food resources.
Information about the health care programs available through Medicaid and how to qualify.
Our migrant program works with a number of organizations to provide services for Michigan’s migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
A federal program which helps persons admitted into the U.S. as refugees to become self-sufficient after their arrival.
Universal caseload, or task-based processing, is a different way of handling public assistance cases.
Information on the Children's Protective Services Program, child abuse reporting procedures, and help for parents in caring for their children.
Information on adoption programs, adoption resources, locating birth parents and obtaining information from adoption records.
Information on Adult Protective Services, Independent Living Services, Adult Community Placement Services, and HIV/AIDS Support Services.
Information on child support services for participants and partners.
Programs for healthy children & families, including immunization, lead poisoning prevention, prenatal smoking cessation, and many others.
Information on the Children's Foster Care program and becoming a Foster Parent.
Information about the Michigan law that requires certain information be made available to a woman who is seeking an abortion at least 24 hours prior to the abortion procedure.
Information on treatment and services for juvenile offenders, success stories, and more.
Child Welfare Medical and Behavioral Health Resources
MDHHS and partners support a continuum of prevention services. The continuum is inclusive of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention activities. Visit this page to learn more.
Information about injury and violence prevention programs in Michigan
Information on Safe Sleep for your baby, how to protect your baby's life.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services' (MDHHS) Division of Environmental Health (DEH) uses the best available science to reduce, eliminate, or prevent harm from environmental, chemical, and physical hazards.
Resources and information to assist in assuring firearm safety for families in the state of Michigan.
The Division of Victim Services (DVS) provides a voice advocating for and responding to all victims of crime in Michigan. Learn more about DVS-funded programs and services, including Michigan’s 24/7, free, confidential, and anonymous domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines.
Medical Resources for Child Protection
Serves as liaison and provides funding to Michigan’s 45 local health departments.
Adult Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Services
Multicultural Health
Prevention of diseases & conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and many others.
Information on communicable & chronic diseases.
Home to an array of public health programs, initiatives and interventions aimed at improving the health and well-being of women, infants, families and communities.
Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records
Boards and Commissions
Bridge Card Participation Information on Electronic Benefits for clients and businesses, lists of participating retailers and ATMs, and QUEST.
Provider Payments Information on the direct deposit of State of Michigan payments into a provider's bank account.
Information on How to Bid, Requests for Proposals, forms and publications, contractor rates, and manuals.
Information & resources for Community and Faith-Based partners
Information on DHS Applications and Forms grouped by category.
Health Care Providers
Licensing information for Adult Foster Care and Homes for the Aged, Child Day Care Facilities, Child Caring Institutions, Children's Foster Care Homes, Child Placing Agencies, Juvenile Court Operated Facilities and Children's or Adult Foster Care Camps.
Michigan Statewide Systems of Care
Information on the grant awarded for the State Innovation Model Proposal
Protect MiFamily -Title IV-E Waiver
Offers resources for agencies who operate the Weatherization Assistance Program in the state of Michigan
Information is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan citizens.
Information on resources in your community and volunteer recruitment and training, and services provided at local DHS offices.
Equal Opportunity, Legal Base, Laws and Reporting Welfare Fraud information.
A variety of reports & statistics for programs and services.
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Secure Account Creation and Account Management: Clients and partners are asked a short series of questions when creating their account to confirm their identity. This security features allows MDHHS to share robust case and benefit information. Every client and partner who uses MI Bridges will have their own individual account.
Help Me Find Resources: Any Michigan resident can select a topic they would like help with such as food, transportation, or utilities assistance. MI Bridges will ask a short series of questions and recommend programs/services available through the state, or in their local community to meet their needs.
Explore Resources: Any Michigan resident that wants to freely search for and explore resources in their local community can do so here.
My Resources: Clients can elect to save information on a community resources to their profile so it can be viewed at a later date – this allows for clients to easily manage and remember organizations they have identified as helpful and be able to find this information simply by logging into their MI Bridges account.
View My Benefits: Clients with existing cases can view helpful benefit information by program. Clients will be able to find answers to their benefits questions directly in MI Bridges anytime of the day or night! Customers can view their renewal date, benefit amount, the date when benefits will be available on their Bridge card, and much more!
View My Letters: Clients can also view letters sent from MDHHS for the previous 12 months. Now, if a client requests a copy of a notice, they can easily find and print it from Clients account in MI Bridges.
Apply for Benefits: Clients can apply for benefits using a simplified application with a clean new look that matches the questions and improvements made to the paper application.
Renew My Benefits: Clients can create a MI Bridges account and receive notifications when their redetermination is due. If a client consents their navigator can also view this renewal date.
Report Changes: Report changes now has a more visually appealing look and simplified questions.
Upload Documents and Verifications: Clients can easily access MI Bridges from their mobile device. This means when MDHHS requests a verification, the customer can snap a picture and share with MDHHS by easily uploading the picture to their MI Bridges account.
Benefits and Resources Information Sharing: Clients can easily choose to share their household and benefit information with community partners who are assisting them. Partners will be able to view the same benefit information as their clients.
Community Partner Registration: All community partner organizations register their agency and each user in MI Bridges. Now each user receives a unique ID and sign-in account.
Community Partner Referrals: Organizations can register to receive electronic referrals from clients directly in MI Bridges. The referral partner can view the client contact information in MI Bridges, and manage these referrals on a dashboard specifically built for referral partners.
Client Case Notifications: Clients can elect to receive notifications through text or email when a new letter sent from MDHHS is available to be viewed in MI Bridges.
Help Desk: A dedicated help desk is available to help answer client and partner questions Monday – Friday from 8:00am – 7:00pm.
Stronger 2-1-1 Integration: Community Partners are able to report organization information that is incorrect in MI Bridges and list seasonal resources as temporarily unavailable.
Local Resource Integration: MI Bridges has expanded its resources by incorporating the Great Start to Quality Childcare and Preschool Database!
MDHHS Program Integration: MI Bridges will predict when individuals become eligible and send a referral to the Woman, Infants, and Children (WIC) program!
Enriched Community Partner Features: Community Partners have more features to help support clients and manage their organization like:
Work in part with other navigators on the same client
View pending documents for clients
Send recommended resources to clients