Michigan Child Welfare Prevention and Family Supports
Michigan is undertaking reforms of its child welfare and family wellbeing system aimed at creating safer environments for children in their homes and enabling more children who enter protective care to be placed with family. The GPL is helping strengthen and increase access to prevention and family preservation programs, advance relative-first strategies for children in care, better address mental health for youth, and strengthen the quality of residential programs in collaboration with provider partners. This technical assistance creates lasting capacity to monitor results with data, deploy performance improvement strategies internally and with providers, and use contracts to advance strategic goals.