Partners >> Genesee County Partners

The community partners in the Prevention Research Center of Michigan represent four sectors: community-based organizations; the Greater Flint Health Coalition; the local health department; Genesys Health System; the University of Michigan School of Public Health and University of Michigan -Flint. Each partner brings a unique area of expertise to PRC/MI Community Board.

Community-Based Organization Partners

Dort-Oak Park Neighborhood House
810-767-0441
810-767-1451
http://www.gbgm-umc.org/dort-oakpark/
Description: The mission of DOPHN is to provide personal and community service to enhance the life of people and neighborhoods. DOPHN provides instructions and education that enable people to acquire needed skills for successful living.

Faith Access to Community Economic Development
810-232-7733
810-232-9833 Fax
http://www.facedcorp.org/index.htm
Description: A non-profit corporation established to provide services to meet the comprehensive health needs- physical, mental, and spiritual- of low income residents of Flint and Genesee County.

Flint Odyssey House Inc., Health Awareness Center
810-238-0483
810-232-4066 Fax
Description: The mission of FOHI is to provide intervention, primary and secondary substance abuse prevention, and treatment services to the community at large, with a focus on the indigent population. The mission of FOHI Health Awareness Center is to provide programs geared toward positive youth development.

Genesee County Community Action
Resource Department
810-232-2185
810-768-4667 Fax
http://www.co.genesee.mi.us/genccard/Default.asp
Description: Created during the 1960's as a response to the war on poverty, GCCARD provides a multitude of quality programs. Through these programs GCCARD assists the elderly, children, and low-income families.

Neighborhood Roundtable
810-239-7576
810-239-9770 Fax
Description: Members are from area block clubs, crime watches, and neighborhood associations throughout Genesee County. The Roundtable advocates on issues of concern to neighborhoods.

YOUR Center
810-789-8637 Ext. 208
810-210-7720
810-789-8638 Fax
http://www.yc4w.org
Description: YOUR Center is a faith-based social service agency of Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation. YOUR Center assists, services and advocates for the needs of Flint and Genesee County to improve the their overall quality of life. The center provides barrier free client centered services that help reduce the spread of sexually transmitted diseases to include HIV and other health disparities.

Greater Flint Health Coalition Partners

Greater Flint Health Coalition
810-232-2228
810-232-3332 Fax
http://www.gfhc.org/
Description: The GFHC, formed in 1992, has the mission of improving the health status of Genesee County residents and improving the quality and cost effectiveness of the health care system of the county. The Coalition is a community/institutional partnership with a board broadly reflective of the community's leadership in government, hospitals, labor, business, insurers, physicians, education, community and faith-based organizations. All of the Genesee County/Flint area major health care providers, insurers, purchasers, employers and labor organizations are represented in the Coalition, and its Board consists of major Flint area stakeholders in the health system.

Genesee County Medical Society
810-733-6260
810-733-8654 Fax
Description: The Genesee County Medical Society is a medical society association representing almost 700 physicians. GCMS gives physicians the information and tools needed to stay current, anticipate developments and make decisions as they relate to the medical community. The Society works closely with other medical societies in the state, as well as the Michigan State Medical Society. We are politically aggressive making sure member voices are heard regarding local, state, and national medical issues. The Society is an active member organization of the Greater Flint Health Coalition, along with GM, the UAW, third party payers and other key organizations.

Health Department Partner

Genesee County Health Department
810-257-3588
810-257-3147 Fax
http://www.gchd.us
Description: With a vision of "Better Life Through Better Health," and a mission to protect and promote the community's mental health, the Genesee County Health Department is recognized for its community-based public health model, and its efforts to ground local, state and national projects with local assets and energy. The Department maintains strong, trusting relationships with its academic and community partners to succeed in its four strategic plan health outcome objectives, reduction of: communicable disease, chronic disease, injury, and racial disparity in infant mortality. Established in 1929, the Department assesses health processes and health outcomes, recommends policies to its governing board and others for adoption, and performs its assurance role through its own internal resources as well as through its collaboration with other individuals and organizations. Over 40 service programs are directly administered in the areas of clinical and community services, substance abuse, and environmental health.

Genesys Health System

Genesys Health System
810-606-5000
http://www.genesys.org/
Description: Genesys Health System, a member of Ascension Health, is a group of affiliated medical campuses, outpatient centers, primary care locations and ancillary health care organizations with a mission and history of improving our community's health for nearly 80 years.

University Partners

University of Michigan, Flint
810-762-3172
810-762-3003 Fax
www.flint.umich.edu
www.umflint.edu/uhwc
Description: University of Michigan-Flint (UM-Flint): The Flint Campus of the University of Michigan is represented in the PRC Community Board by its School of Health Professions and Studies. This school offers programs leading to Bachelor of Science in Health Care Administration, Environmental Health, Health Education, Health Care-Health and Human Behavior, Administration of Services to the Aged, Radiation Therapy, Medical Technology, and Nursing; Master of Science in Anesthesia, Health Education, Nursing, Nurse Practitioner, and RN/MSN; and Doctor of Physical Therapy. As a PRC Community Board member, the UM-Flint campus has made public health training more accessible to Flint residents through the development and dissemination in community settings of the Health Careers Database, its M.S. in Health Education degree program, and leadership in the training program, "Developing Leadership to Promote Community Health Solutions." UM-Flint also plays an integral role in the REACH 2010 initiative and has developed a widely recognized course "Cultural Competence in Health Care."

University of Michigan, School of Public Health
734-764-5425
734-763-5455
www.sph.umich.edu
Description: The mission at the University of Michigan School of Public Health is to create and disseminate knowledge with the aim of preventing disease and promoting the health of populations in the United States and worldwide. It is especially concerned with the poor, often minority populations, who suffer disproportionately from illness and disability.

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