Weekly we focus on the work of area individuals and organizations advancing equity in our community.

Weekly we focus on the work of area individuals and organizations advancing equity in our community.

Eight local organizations specializing in serving people with disabilities are reportedly set to move into SOMI's newly renovated Unified Sports and Inclusion Center.

"Cesar Chavez is the complete O.G. farmworker advocate," Molly Spaack, a staff attorney with Migrant Legal Aid said.

Charles Elwood is part of a global movement, using 3D printers to create tourniquets, an often life-saving device used to apply pressure to a limb or extremity to stop blood flow. They will be assembled in Denmark and sent to Ukraine.

Disability Advocates was the only organization in Michigan out of 32 nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, and public housing authorities nationwide to receive an award from HUD’s $30 million “Older Adults Home Modification Program”.

Weekly we focus on the work of area individuals and organizations advancing equity in our community.

From 2014-2018 intimate partner violence and domestic violence was a known factor for 45% of all female homicide victims in Michigan.

Lead is a highly toxic metal that can cause serious and irreversible adverse health effects. A 2021 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics found that elevated blood lead levels in children were closely related to poverty, race, and living in older housing.

"It's hard to celebrate something so valuable when half of your heart is still in a warzone."