What is Community Connections?
Community Connections is a free program that provides assistance connecting resources to adults, children, and families. Services are provided with supportive phone calls, office visits, and home visits by a community health worker, nurse, and/or social worker.
What are the benefits of participating?
Participants receive assistance connecting with health care, dental care, and other community resources to improve their health.
Participants can be connected to:
- Medical and dental care
- Finding you a doctor, dentist, or mental health therapist
- Answering questions about wellness or being sick
- Immunizations
- Answering questions about family planning
- Enrollment in health insurance
- Finding a place to live
- Buying, fixing, and eating healthy foods
- Changes that you decide to make to be healthy, such as quitting or cutting down on smoking, alcohol, or drugs
- Your concerns about abuse or violence in your life
- Finding translation services
- Connecting you with community services like GED education classes, employment opportunities, food pantries that give out free food, or heat and electricity resources
- Exploring transportation assistance
Who is eligible?
Any adult, child, or family living in counties:
- Alcona
- Alpena
- Antrim
- Arenac
- Benzie
- Charlevoix
- Cheboygan
- Clare
- Crawford
- Emmet
- Gladwin
- Grand Traverse
- Iosco
- Isabella
- Kalkaska
- Lake
- Leelanau
- Manistee
- Mason
- Mecosta
- Missaukee
- Montmorency
- Newaygo
- Oceana
- Ogemaw
- Osceola
- Oscoda
- Otsego
- Presque Isle
- Roscommon
- Wexford
Contact:
Call at 833-674-2159 and submit the completed electronic referral form.
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