2020

Sixty families in Wayne County eventually engaged with the benefits coach and completed an application for benefits. Sixty-eight percent of them were approved for at least one program, and 32% were denied for their entire application.

This research project aims to ensure a county resolution declaring racism a public health crisis has a meaningful impact on the health and well-being of residents of color.

This project combined the African traditions of generative economy with contemporary technology design to create an AfricanFuturist greenhouse, located at the African Bead Museum in Southwest Detroit.

The research pilot consisted of interviews with 36 University of Michigan students who received free tuition and HAIL scholarship offers and 20 parents who live in Southeast Michigan.

This project aimed to examine the potential for inequity resulting from variation in the actual care provided by clinicians and hospital personnel to children and their families.

Poverty Solutions is partnering with the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office on a data-driven project focused on uncovering potential racial disparities within the prosecutorial system and increasing the transparency and accountability of the system generally.

This project developed and fielded a survey of federal Continuums of Care from March 2020 to January 2021 to better understand: how they are organized; strengths and weaknesses they face in their task to end homelessness in their jurisdictions; and how they responded to and were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially damaging to communities of color in the United States.

This project uses police body camera footage as a window onto police-citizen interactions to examine 1) racial disparities in officer communication and 2) the consequences of these differences for physiological stress and institutional trust.

The research investigates the impact of offering home visiting universally to all women, regardless of insurance status, on participation rates and the health outcomes of mothers and babies.

This project sought to develop strategies for converting abandoned school buildings in Detroit into anchor institutions that provide internet access through mesh networks.

The goal of this project is to assess the feasibility of using grocery delivery to strengthen services related to the special supplemental nutrition program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) by improving access to and use of food benefits during pregnancy.

This grant allowed Sara Heller to expand on three research projects that can provide evidence to guide the development of effective interventions aimed at youth whose families have low incomes.

Researchers examined the scarce resource of non-emergency medical transportation within the city of Detroit and a new system designed to improve health care access for underserved communities in western Detroit.

This study is designed to collate evidence around the link between income and health and examine the implications for current proposals to redistribute income and wealth.

This project used a mixed methods case study design to amplify how Black families make decisions and leverage resources in support of their children's mathematics education during COVID-19.

The goal is to better understand the most effective mode of sharing information about how different treated drinking waters are processed, so individuals can make decisions on the best water hydration choice for themselves.

In 2020, the Luke Clinic piloted the Mobile Antenatal Testing Unit to provide community/home-based care to families with high-risk pregnancies and social barriers to care.

The goal of this study is to examine how entrepreneurship can catalyze upward economic mobility among people with low to moderate incomes in an urban environment.

Researchers supported the COVID-19 Food Delivery Program's maintenance and the (re)design, implementation, and program evaluation of the (re)design. Their recommendations helped to secure resources to double the program's capacity and sustain its implementation till 2024.

The researcher worked with the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, Office of Sustainability, and the Detroit Health Department to examine how the broader context of poverty affects water affordability for city residents.