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Child care assistance helps families succeed financially. [1] When families receive child care assistance they are more likely to be employed and to have higher earnings. Approximately 1.8 million children [2] receive CCDBG-funded child care in an average month. Yet, only one in seven eligible children receives child care assistance. [3]
On February 4, 2019, Governor Gretchen Whitmer ordered that the Michigan Agency for Energy be transferred out of the department and into the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy as the Office of Climate and Energy. [10] In 2021 the Child Care Licensing Bureau was created within the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.
The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a type of United States federal assistance provided by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to states in order to provide a daily subsidized food service for an estimated 3.3 million children and 120,000 elderly or mentally or physically impaired adults [1] in non-residential, day-care settings.
Apr. 16—TRAVERSE CITY — In 2021, the number of Michigan's licensed childcare providers statewide fell by 735 — a drastic one-year drop. All told, there are just 8,000 providers to take care ...
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Michigan is closer to shrugging off federal oversight of its child welfare program, after a U.S. district court judge eliminated or reduced many of the requirements it must meet in order to do so.
In May 2013, the DIFS ordered two unlicensed pay day loan operators to stop activities in Michigan. [5] In June, an Ingham County Circuit Judge order the liquidation of American Fellowship Mutual Insurance Co. from a request from DIFS with the Department Director selected as liquidator. [6]
Those payments drove the number of children placed with kin from 35% of the child welfare population up to 50% or higher, according to Jessica Sweet, responsible for kinship efforts within MDHHS's ...