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Evaluation of the Family Matters! Project

Clients: Child and Family Charities. Policy Areas: Criminal and Juvenile Justice.

The Child and Family Charities (CFC) Family Matters! Project is designed to provide an array of substance abuse and mental health treatment services and support to youth and families impacted by opioids and other substance use disorders. The CFC received funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to implement the … Continued

Michigan Works! Network Scan

Clients: C.S. Mott Foundation and Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation. Policy Areas: Workforce Development.

PPA conducted a scan of the Michigan Works! (MW) network’s activities in three key areas of interest: the efforts to meet the needs of job seekers with barriers to employment, the efforts to connect individuals with middle-skill jobs (those requiring less than a four-year degree), and the efforts to support the goal of having 60 … Continued

Mobile Food Pantry Program Evaluation

Clients: Feeding America West Michigan. Policy Areas: Healthy Communities.

In collaboration with the Feeding America national office (FANO), PPA designed and executed a program evaluation that examined Feeding America West Michigan’s (FAWM) Mobile Food Pantry Program. The program operates in 32 counties across all five regions served by FAWM. The study provided a deeper look at the client profile for the program and created … Continued

Food Security and Health in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Clients: Feeding America West Michigan and Michigan Health Endowment Fund. Policy Areas: Healthy Communities.

PPA provided facilitation and research services for a two-year planning grant to develop a comprehensive, cross-systems strategy to address food security and health in the 15-county Upper Peninsula (U.P.). The initial research phase of work was aimed at understanding both the context of the U.P. region and emergent food as medicine (FAM) innovations nationally. PPA … Continued

Regional Food Logistics: A Local Institutional Procurement Assessment

Clients: Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities. Policy Areas: Healthy Communities.

PPA conducted an assessment of the local producer-procurement landscape in the rural region comprising the Petoskey (Michigan) foodshed, with an emphasis on farm-to-school and farm-to-food pantry. The assessment entailed the review of existing data and information and facilitating roundtable discussions with stakeholders—schools, food producers, distributors, food pantries, and stakeholder connectors—to identify points in the food … Continued

Solutions Summits

Clients: AFT Michigan, Michigan Education Association, and Middle Cities Education Association. Policy Areas: Education.

To better understand the problem begin addressing the educator talent crisis faced within the state, PPA partnered with the Michigan Education Association, AFT Michigan, and the Middle Cities Education Association to host a series of educator workforce solution summits designed to collect ideas from frontline educators on how best to recruit and retain educators in … Continued

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