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State of Health Series: Youth Mentor Garden: FitKids360 promotes lifelong healthy behaviors and habits through play and learning by engaging families and partnering with local organizations in health and wellness education, physical activity, and relationship building.

The Youth Mentor Garden, operating out of gardens in Wyoming and Detroit, is an expansion of the Grand Rapids-based FitKids360’s health and wellness programming that targets youth aged 12 and older and their family members.

Discover more about the Youth Mentor Garden with FitKids360 in partnership with HOPE Gardens ➡️

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📍 Wyoming & Detroit
🖊 Estelle Slootmaker
📷 Kristina Bird

We’re thrilled to partner with Back pocket media to bring live journalism, music, and the best stories from Detroit to the stage for .

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Sponsored by the Knight Foundation and Friends of DFT

Detroit Story Fest The best stories from our city live on stage. Featuring award-wining journalists, writers, podcasters, performance artists, and musicians.

Taking a look around Sterling Heights and highlighting some of the businesses that have celebrated grand openings over these past several months. Read more below.

Vinyl Village
Jollibee USA
Moe's Kitchen
Slider Bar - Sterling Heights

Break out the big scissors: Touring the latest businesses to open in Sterling Heights

What better way to visit than by bike? Writer Mark Wedel, an avid cyclist, decided to test his pedal mettle in the . He discovered a bicyclist's urban nirvana. Read more below.

Weekend pedal: A Kalamazooan tours Detroit at the 'speed of bike' What better way to visit Detroit than by bike? Writer Mark Wedel, an avid cyclist, decided to test his pedal mettle in the Motor City. He discovered a bicyclist's urban nirvana.

"The bandstand is a safe place to make mistakes. We're trying to master this music, but you can't really do that without making some mistakes." Read more below. Detroit Jazz Festival

Detroit has always been a hotbed of jazz artists. This year's Jazz Festival moves them center stage

State of Health Series: Would you use a prescription for fresh fruit and veggies? Produce prescription programs are growing in Michigan, and so is infrastructure to better support them.

Michigan Farmers Market Association

Prescriptions for fresh produce grow in Michigan through collaboration and new funding Efforts are underway to better coordinate efforts between produce prescription programs and to create more standardized funding mechanisms for them.

Disability Inclusion Series (For our Spanish-speaking readers): Un nuevo impulso en la recopilación de datos sobre la atención médica de las personas con discapacidad está poniendo de relieve una disparidad en la equidad de la atención de la salud que a menudo pasa desapercibida para la comunidad médica.

La recopilación de datos está desempeñando un papel clave en el avance de la equidad en la salud Un nuevo impulso en la recopilación de datos sobre la atención médica de las personas con discapacidad está poniendo de relieve una disparidad en la equidad de la atención de la salud que a menudo pasa desapercibida para la comunidad médica.

Michigan Central Station and other commercial developments are exciting, but residents wants to make sure Detroit’s Hubbard Richard neighborhood remains racially and economically diverse. Read more below.

Protecting Hubbard Richard neighborhood amid ongoing development Hubbard Richard Residents Association works to keep the neighborhood equitable and residents healthy.

Detroit Friendship House focuses on providing trauma-informed care for people in need of food assistance that reflects the diverse, ever-changing population of the city around them. Read more below.

Food pantry focuses on immigrants Friendship House in Hamtramck serves many immigrant groups with emergency food and other services.

PARTNER CONTENT: With the help of local nonprofit partners who are invested in supporting an inclusive economy in , Chase is bringing more allies to your local bank branch who share the goal of empowering to improve and achieve financial health. Read more below.

How Detroit’s new Chase community manager can help empower your financial journey

From New Baltimore to Romeo, here are five unique downtowns with great local vibes to check out. Read more below.

5 Macomb downtown areas to visit before summer ends

Build Institute is a nonprofit organization that helps people turn their business ideas into reality by providing them with the necessary tools, resources, and support network in Detroit. Read more below.

BUILD Institute to hold first signature fundraising event at the Aretha Amphitheater

From performance to pixels, we caught up with four artists you should have on your radar. Just remember, you saw them here first. Read more below.

Notable artists in Metro Detroit you should know about

Privately owned parks across help advance equity, build community, provide services, and catalyze investment in underserved neighborhoods. Read more below.

NW Goldberg Cares, Popps Packing, and 360 Detroit Inc.

Detroit's privately owned parks make a big difference for their neighborhoods Private individuals and nonprofits have established parks across the city to help advance equity, build community, provide services, and catalyze investment in underserved neighborhoods.

A premier food rescue organization serving Southeast Michigan is changing how it delivers healthy, nutritious meals to people in need by providing a shopping experience to center families’ choices. Read more below.

Forgotten Harvest

Forgotten Harvest's Client Choice Market fosters dignity in food assistance Forgotten Harvest offers client choice market

Good Food Series: It’s a different type of learning when a child tastes and appreciates garden-fresh foods. Childcare providers are learning this through this program, where eligible facilities receive money from the state when they provide children with fruits, vegetables, and legumes that are Michigan-grown.

10 Cents A Meal
Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development - MDARD
Groundwork Center
MSU Center for Regional Food Systems

How 10 Cents a Meal brings healthy food to more Michigan kids The Michigan program supplements the food service programs’ budgets for fresh produce, encouraging a greater menu variety and healthier eating habits for kids statewide.

Disability Inclusion Series: Sensory-friendly spaces are playing a key role in improving health equity across Michigan. In Calhoun County, two sensory rooms have been added to support patients with autism.

Autism Alliance of Michigan
Disability Rights Michigan
Michigan Developmental Disabilities Institute
Delta Dental Foundation
University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry

Sensory-friendly spaces play key role in improving health equity The Autism Alliance of Michigan has been a leader in encouraging clinics to create safe spaces by including sensory rooms.

Miles Naasir Reuben's 'Merlot' pours a glass of raw truth, while 'Nile' flows into the hearts of many. Read more below.

Meet the young Detroit filmmaker on a mission to tell authentic Black, q***r stories

We sent photographer Steve Koss along to check out the new site in Pontiac bringing the beloved market to the 'burbs. Read more below.
Eastern Market Partnership

PHOTOS: A visit to the new Eastern Market location

State of Health Series: Region IV Area Agency on Aging’s Campus for Creative Aging offers a variety of programming for older adults in Berrien, Van Buren, and Cass counties.

Campus for Creative Aging helps Southwest Michigan seniors find purpose after retirement Since 2017, the Campus for Creative Aging has been offering a variety of innovative opportunities for older adults in Berrien, Van Buren, and Cass counties – and helping younger residents understand and respect their older neighbors.

The Huron-Clinton Metroparks have never had a Detroit location, but that will change next year through a partnership with the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. Read more below.

Metroparks to open first Detroit location with Huron-Clinton Metroparks Water Garden The Huron-Clinton Metroparks' robust parks system has never included a Detroit location, but that will change next year with the opening of a Metroparks-branded attraction at Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park.

State of Health Series: Michigan organizations have come together to address health disparities that affect Michigan's rapidly growing population of older adults.

AARP Michigan
Detroit Area Agency on Aging
MPHI

Michigan coalition works to address health disparities for older adults A broad coalition of Michigan organizations has come together to address health disparities that affect Michigan's rapidly growing population of older adults.

To address childhood tooth decay, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) launched the Kindergartener’s Oral Health Assessment Program (KOHA). Read more below.

New public health program improves oral health for Michigan’s children To address childhood tooth decay, the Michigan Department of Human Health Services launched the Kindergartener’s Oral Health Assessment Program.

The unveiling of a historical marker 57 years after the Algiers Motel tragedy honors the victims and highlights the ongoing struggle against systemic racism. Read more below.

Pain passed down: The Algiers Motel tragedy and its enduring impact

This is part of a series from the unofficial cartographer of , Alex B. Hill, a self-described “data nerd and anthropologist” who combines mapping, data, and analytics with storytelling and human experience. Read more below.

Mapping Detroit: Where does techno live in the city?

A grand opening celebration was held in the Kercheval corridor late last week as opened its doors to both its two- and four-legged customers. Read more below.

Pints, chew toys, and more: Bar-meets-dog park celebrates grand opening in West Village

Opioid health homes provide a central point of contact where people living with opioid use disorder work with an interdisciplinary provider team to develop an individualized recovery care plan. Read more below.

Opioid health homes remove barriers to recovery Opioid health homes provide a central point of contact where people living with opioid use disorder work with an interdisciplinary provider team to develop an individualized recovery care plan.

A select group of 10 nonprofits have received a total of $2.6 million in grants from the Hudson-Webber Foundation, earning financial support from the Detroit-based foundation on the strength of each organization’s community-focused initiatives and programs. Read more below.

These 10 Detroit nonprofits were selected for $2.6M in grants to support community-focused programs