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A new <a href="https://detroitpeoplesfoodcoop.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black-led, cooperatively owned grocery store</a> has officially opened in Detroit’s North End neighborhood. The Detroit People’s Food Co-op, a $21 million project that’s been years in the making, started welcoming shoppers on May 1 and will host a grand opening on May 18. The Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (<a href="https://www.dbcfsn.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DBCFSN</a>) and <a href="https://www.developdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Develop Detroit</a> spearheaded the creation of the co-op. 
The group&#8217;s mission is to provide better access to healthy food and uplift the community. The co-op plans to source fresh produce from Black-run urban farms like <a href="https://www.dbcfsn.org/dtownfarm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DTown Farms</a>, the <a href="https://www.oaklandurbanfarm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oakland Avenue Urban Farm</a>, the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/greenthumbz_consulting/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Green Boots Project</a> and others. It will also stock food and wellness products from more than 40 local vendors. 
“We have a model of 50/50. So, like 50% healthy and organic, 50% clean and conventional. So, you&#8217;ll see products that you&#8217;re used to seeing right next to products that you are not used to seeing,” Detroit People’s Food Co-op <a href="https://detroitpeoplesfoodcoop.com/about-us/board-member-profiles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Board President Lanay Gilbert Williams</a> said.  
According to <a href="https://unitedforalice.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Way’s ALICE Report</a>, which stands for Asset Limited Income Constrained and Employed, around three in four Detroiters may not have access to healthy foods regularly.  
“It’s like 70% of households that meet that ALICE threshold where they’re very likely facing food insecurity on some semi-regular basis,” <a href="https://alexbhill.org/portfolio/detroit-food-map/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Food Map Initiative Project Director Alex Hill</a> said. Detroit has lost roughly a dozen grocery stores in the last decade, he said. 
<a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BridgeDetroit</a> reporter <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/?s=Jena+Brooker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jena Brooker</a> and One Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#jonathan">Jonathan Shead</a> examine the impact the food co-op will have on healthy food access and economic development in the city. Brooker talks with DBCFSN’s Executive Director <a href="https://www.instagram.com/beblackandgreen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Malik Yakini</a> and its Fund Development Director <a href="https://farmland.org/contributors/shakara-tyler/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Shakara Tyler</a> about being more than just a grocery store, but a place where people can increase their understanding of the full process of their food from seed to shelf. Plus, Brooker talks with one of the local vendors, <a href="http://www.zellasbakery.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zella’s Bakery</a>. 
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Detroit People’s Food Co-op opening broadens access to healthy foods in the city’s North End

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Every day after school, hundreds of kids head to <a href="https://dbgdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Downtown Boxing Gym</a> on Detroit’s east side to shoot some hoops, get help with their homework or hit the boxing ring. They’re also having fun in the organization’s new commercial kitchen making nutritious meals with a well-known Detroit chef.   
<a href="https://dbgdetroit.org/roses-fine-food-founder-molly-mitchell-joins-dbg-to-lead-culinary-arts-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Molly Mitchell</a>, the former owner of Detroit diner Rose’s Fine Food, became Downtown Boxing Gym’s associate director of culinary arts in January. Mitchell’s role includes preparing fresh meals and snacks for students each night, <a href="https://dbgdetroit.org/roses-fine-food-founder-molly-mitchell-joins-dbg-to-lead-culinary-arts-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">totaling more than 1,000 meals per week</a>. 
<figure id="attachment_35049" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-35049" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-35049" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ONE-DETROIT-844-DBG-Culinary-Arts-Still-1.jpg" alt="Detroit chef Molly Mitchell cooks at the Downtown Boxing Gym " width="650" height="366" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-35049" class="wp-caption-text">Detroit chef and Downtown Boxing Gym Associate Director of Culinary Arts Molly Mitchell prepares meals for students to take home to their families. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
She’s also developing a culinary arts curriculum by teaching basic cooking skills and healthy meals that kids can make at home. The nonprofit offers free academic and athletic programs, electives and mentorship to youth ages 8-18, with continuing mentorship and support through 25. 
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“My goal is to build out a program that is not only really informative, that if someone wanted to go get a job in a restaurant, they could after taking this program,” Mitchell said. “But really, I’m just trying to cement an excitement for food that can be a lifelong passion, whether you’re working in a restaurant or you just like learning how to cook amazing meals for yourself and your loved ones.”  
<a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/">BridgeDetroit’s</a> <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/author/micah-walker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Micah Walker</a> and One Detroit’s <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#chris">Chris Jordan</a> stopped by the Downtown Boxing Gym to watch Mitchell teach students some new skills in the kitchen. Plus, Walker talked with Mitchell and Downtown Boxing Gym founder and CEO Khali Sweeney about the program and how it fits into the gym’s larger mission. 
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Downtown Boxing Gym’s culinary curriculum teaches children cooking skills and nutrition

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A new cutting-edge research and training facility at the University of Detroit Mercy, the STAR Center, has launched to elevate the training of its nursing students. The <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/about/star-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Simulation, Technology and Research Center</a>, as it’s formally named, gives nursing students hands-on experience with a wide range of scenarios and environments they might find working in the medical field. 
The 5,000-square-foot facility also serves as a hub for research and innovation, where students and faculty can collaborate on new nursing projects. This comes after the university’s College of Health Professions built its first simulation center in 2010, albeit a smaller version, <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/about/faculty.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interim Dean Janet Baiardi</a> said. The new facility is on the University of Detroit Mercy’s McNichol’s Campus in the <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Health Professions</a>. 
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One Detroit contributor Daijah Moss visited the university to tour the training center, delve into its innovative features and learn about its potential to enhance students’ proficiency in the medical field. She talks with Baiardi, College of Health Professions <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/about/faculty.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interim Associate Dean Saran Hollier</a>, STAR Center Clinical Instructor <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/about/faculty.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Sheila Williamson</a>, STAR Center Assistant Dean of Prelicensure Clinical Partnerships <a href="https://healthprofessions.udmercy.edu/about/faculty.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nina Favor</a> and some of the students in the program.
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University of Detroit Mercy launches STAR Center training facility for nursing students

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As the nation prepares to commemorate Veteran’s Day, a significant shift in the discourse surrounding mental health is on the horizon. Advocates are pushing for a change in terminology, replacing &#8220;Post Traumatic Stress Disorder&#8221; (PTSD) with &#8220;<a href="https://itsptsi.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Post Traumatic Stress Injury&#8221; (PTSI)</a> in an effort to reduce stigma and encourage more individuals to seek treatment. The group leading this charge, &#8220;Honor For All,&#8221; is comprised of Vietnam veterans who understand that the impact of trauma extends far beyond the battlefield.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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One of the driving forces behind this movement is <a href="http://honorforall.org/kent-hall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kent Hall</a>, a former Sergeant in Phu Bai with the 220th RAC during the tumultuous year of 1969. Kent has silently battled PTSD for decades, initially unaware of his condition, and even <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/11/09/jogging-bandit-kent-hall-ptsd/1902879002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teetered on the precipice of suicide</a>.
<figure id="attachment_33115" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-33115" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-33115" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-09-at-9.20.45-AM.png" alt="Kent Hall, Thomas Mahany and Bob Young" width="650" height="366" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-33115" class="wp-caption-text">Kent Hall (left), Thomas Mahany (right) and Bob Young (back left),a former Williamston, Michigan Police Chief, hold an Honor For All meeting at the kitchen table to discuss their efforts to change Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to Post Traumatic Stress Injury. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
Thanks to his connection with Doug Price, <a href="https://www.metrotimes.com/news/fast-times-in-washington-dc-2196484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thomas Mahany</a>, and <a href="https://jmvh.org/article/art-trauma-and-ptsi-an-interview-with-dr-frank-ochberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Frank Ochberg</a> at Honor For All, Kent has not only come to understand his struggle but now dedicates his time to educating others. He shares his experiences and insights, emphasizing that PTSD is not a weakness, but a wound that deserves healing, with the goal of helping veterans and their families find the support they need.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
<figure id="attachment_33113" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-33113" style="width: 320px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-33113 size-medium" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screen-Shot-2023-11-09-at-9.18.25-AM.png" alt="A 2014 Michigan Proclamation for Post Traumatic Stress Injury" width="320" height="180" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-33113" class="wp-caption-text">A 2014 Michigan Proclamation, signed by former Gov. Rick Snyder, marks Post Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day. Veteran Thomas Mahany has collected resolutions like this one from several other states across the nation. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
The debate surrounding the renaming of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to Post Traumatic Stress Injury (PTSI) hinges on <a href="https://www.firstrespondersfirst.com/post/ptsi-vs-ptsd-whats-the-difference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than just semantics</a>. While both terms encompass the same set of symptoms, the crucial distinction lies in their conceptualization. PTSD traditionally defines these symptoms as a disorder, while PTSI reimagines them as a biological injury. Mental health experts have long recognized physical alterations in the nervous system in PTSD, and some argue that the change in terminology could alter public perception of the condition and reduce stigmas around it. 
One Detroit <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senior Producer Bill Kubota</a> explores these issues and more in his conversation with Honor For All activists and mental health experts, shedding light on a movement that may change the landscape of mental health support for veterans and several other groups affected by the condition.
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Push by local Vietnam veterans to rename Post Traumatic Stress Disorder gains momentum

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Teen dating violence is an alarming issue that affects millions of young lives across the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 1 in 12 U.S. high school students who dated in the 12 months prior to <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/teendatingviolence/fastfact.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a 2019 survey</a> experienced physical or sexual dating violence. The rates were higher among female students and those who identified as LGBTQ+. In response to this pressing concern, Michigan has taken a significant step to raise awareness and prevent teen dating violence through a groundbreaking new law. 
<a href="https://legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/publicact/pdf/2023-PA-0057.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate Bill 66</a>, signed into law by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on July 11, mandates that all public school districts, charter schools, and intermediate school districts in the state provide age-appropriate material about what constitutes sexual assault and harassment to students in grades six through twelve. The materials will be ready for implementation in schools across the state by June 1, 2024. The law’s impact will extend beyond awareness materials. Beginning with the 2024-25 school year, school systems will be encouraged to train all educators and staff who interact with students on how to respond to disclosures of sexual violence.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
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One Macomb County organization, Turning Point, is already doing that. <a href="https://turningpointmacomb.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The organization</a> supports survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking, and it is also working with several schools in Macomb County to <a href="https://turningpointmacomb.org/2023/02/10/macomb-county-schools-join-in-efforts-to-prevent-teen-dating-violence-via-turning-points-education-outreach-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teach these lessons of consent and sexual conduct</a> to their students. One Detroit <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#bill">senior producer Bill Kubota</a> takes viewers into the classroom at Dakota High School to see the training in action. 
<figure id="attachment_32985" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32985" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-32985" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ONE-DETROIT-817-Teen-Dating-Violence-Prevention-Still-2.jpg" alt="Turning Point Prevention Educator Patricia Davis" width="650" height="366" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32985" class="wp-caption-text">Turning Point Prevention Educator Patricia Davis talks with students in one of Dakota High School&#8217;s ninth-grade health classes about domestic violence and teen dating violence prevention. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
He talks with Patricia Davis, Prevention Educator at Turning Point, and Sara Dobbyn, senior program and education director at Turning Point, as well as Dakota High School Student Assistance Specialist Stephanie Lange about early prevention efforts and the long-lasting impact dating violence can have on teens as they age into adulthood. Plus, Kubota talks with three Dakota High School seniors — Nehemiah Campbell, Krystyna Kijewski and McKenzie Koehn — about the impact Turning Point’s course has had on them and the need for more teen dating violence awareness classes in their curriculum. 
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New law requires Michigan schools to teach consent, sexual assault awareness. One local organization already does that.

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Michigan’s Path to a Prosperous Future, the third in a <a href="https://crcmich.org/publications/prosperous-future" target="_blank" rel="noopener">series of five reports</a> by the Citizens Research Council and Altarum looking at Michigan‘s future prosperity, has revealed some startling insights about Michigan&#8217;s health trends. <a href="https://crcmich.org/PUBLICAT/2020s/2023/prosperous-future-health.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to the report</a>, Michiganders are, on average, less healthy than other states in many categories such as life expectancy, self-reported health status, and mental health.  
These declining health rates become more staggering considering the wide disparities between races, socioeconomic status, and where someone lives, adding that life expectancy can vary as much as 29 years from one neighborhood to another. Infant mortality rates are another widely disproportionate statistic, with Black infant mortality rates being 2.7 times higher than White rates.
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These issues in healthcare may also be impacted by Michigan’s aging population and the <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/business/millennials-make-up-a-majority-of-the-global-workforce-can-michigan-attract-them-to-move-here/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decline of young people</a> moving to or staying in the state, the CRC report states. The lack of youth may also add to the growing health problems due to a projected <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/caregiving/young-caregivers-need-more-support-theres-an-app-for-that/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scarcity of caregivers</a>. Michigan did rank favorably, compared to the national average, in the traditional healthcare sector, showing much of the state is insured, has lower-than-average healthcare costs, and boasts a higher-than-average physician count, though resources are not equally dispersed across the state. 
Director of the Department of Health, Human, and Veterans Services at Wayne County, and former gubernatorial candidate, <a href="http://abdulelsayed.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Abdul El-Sayed</a> joins One Detroit producer <a href="https://twitter.com/WillofMichigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a> to talk about the report&#8217;s findings and what it means for residents across the state. Dr. El-Sayed shares his concerns about where Michigan’s healthcare is trending and explores how public policy and the environment one lives in can also contribute to poor health.
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Will Glover, Producer, One Detroit: Is it true to say that Michigan&#8217;s healthcare outcomes have been sliding over the past couple of decades?
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Director, Wayne County Department of Health, Human, and Veteran Services: Well, I really appreciate the question because I think it allows us to think a little bit about some of the context. We, as a state, are struggling to attract and keep people here. And it turns out that people want to go to places where they can live their healthiest and happiest lives. And one of the challenges that we sometimes have in Michigan is that we haven&#8217;t necessarily built a lot of the infrastructure that we need for people to be able to do that thing.
And that&#8217;s not just hospitals. I mean, I want you to think about when you go to a hospital. You don&#8217;t go to a hospital or a clinic when you&#8217;re feeling well. You go there after you get sick in the first place. And so it&#8217;s not about just providing the means of people to get healthy after they&#8217;ve been sick. It&#8217;s about keeping them healthy in the first place.
Part of the challenge that we have in Michigan is, unfortunately, we have not necessarily built what we need to be able to do that, whether it&#8217;s the kind of density of healthy foods or a walkable environment, or even clean air. And I want to be specific here. For a lot of Michiganders, those things are readily available, but for too many Michiganders, they&#8217;re not. And too often those things are patterned by race and by income.
And so you end up having pockets of our state where too often people are breathing dirty air, they have questionable access to clean water, and they can&#8217;t necessarily get around. We think about the brutal interplay between an unwalkable community and then the fact that insurance rates for cars are so high and that puts you in a position where you have to ask, how do I even get to work?
Will Glover: In Michigan, the Citizens Research Council (CRC) report highlights that the life expectancy variation from one neighborhood to another can be as much as 29 years. That, to me, is a very staggering number. How is that variation possible?
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: That kind of thing. That injustice of having a longer access to a healthier life ought to be something that all of us step back and really, really ponder upon. It is about all of the circumstances in a daily life that benefit health in one community and really can take it away in another.
It starts with the simple air we breathe. One project we just kicked off here at Wayne County is about building an air monitoring network simply because we know that while all of us have had to think a little bit more about our air over the past several weeks, given the Canadian wildfires, there are a lot of communities, particularly in southwest Detroit, places like River Rouge or South Dearborn, where they&#8217;ve got to think about air quality every single day. And if the very air you breathe that you&#8217;re extracting oxygen from also brings with it pollutants that are going to damage your lungs and damage your heart and damage your kidneys, not just for adults and seniors, but for children as they are building their body in the first place, you got to imagine how that hobbles folk.
Then you think about the access to a walkable environment. We know what we call neat or non-exercise activity is one of the most important predictors of overall physical health. It&#8217;s not just going for a run or exercising for half an hour, an hour, every day, or every other day. It&#8217;s also just how much activity you get in your daily life as a function of the life that you live.
Now in Michigan, obviously, we&#8217;re a community that was built by the automotive industry and so everything was funneled in that direction. So rather than being able to walk to the bus stop, get on a bus, walk from the bus stop to work every day, and do that sustainably, unfortunately, our public transit systems just haven&#8217;t been invested in in the way needed to be able to allow for public transit and all the activity that comes with that.
Will Glover: If we change our ways, if we start to address the issues that we need to address, what could our future look like?
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: One of the most important things that really does benefit public health, considering the fact that right now one of the major killers is mental illness, whether that comes out in suicide or that comes out in substance use. One of the most important features of daily life that matter to us is one another and the ability to look one another in the eye and have a real-life conversation where we can read and feel one another&#8217;s emotions. And a healthier society, a place where we&#8217;ve invested in public spaces, for example, that make coming together easier and more enjoyable is a more joyful life. And health is joyful.
Being healthy and being able to live to the full extent of your capacities is a joyful thing. And so the lived experience of being healthier collectively is that we have one another more and that we have more of ourselves to be able to enjoy one another and to be able to enjoy the lives that we lead. And I think that&#8217;s what&#8217;s at stake. And so I just want folks to appreciate that these- when we talk about health statistics, it&#8217;s easy to just think about a bunch of numbers. And people don&#8217;t really quite care what the number of life expectancy is, but they do care about what the experience of living in a society where more of us are healthy ought to be.
And I think that just becomes a more joyful, more collectively oriented and engaged society where we spend more time with one another and the people that we love and we&#8217;re able to take advantage of those 29 years of life that some people don&#8217;t get to lead right now, leading that together. And I think that&#8217;s what life is about&#8230; Is spending meaningful time with the people that you love. And when some people lose 29 of their years and you think about the pockets where that&#8217;s concentrated, we are literally robbing ourselves not just of health, but the joy that living can offer. And that is a question of public policy.
And I know a lot of folks think, well, health is about what I choose to do. It&#8217;s about the food that I eat or the exercise that I choose to do. Yeah, those are all true. And no doctor is ever going to tell you don&#8217;t eat healthy and don&#8217;t exercise. But the choice to do those things doesn&#8217;t actually exist evenly for everybody.
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Two local musicians are using their personal journey with cancer to give back to others affected by the life-threatening disease. “Almost Famous,” a band of musicians from metro Detroit who have individually traveled the world in pursuit of their art, reconnected in 2022 for a benefit concert for CURE Childhood Cancer after the band’s drummer, Eric “E” Mcdonald, went through his own battle with the disease.
<figure id="attachment_32124" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-32124" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-32124" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/ONE-DETROIT-805-Almost-Famous-Still-2.jpg" alt="Drummer Eric &quot;E&quot; McDonald" width="650" height="366" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-32124" class="wp-caption-text">Almost Famous drummer Eric &#8220;E&#8221; McDonald practices his drums ahead of the second annual Almost Famous benefit rock concert for CURE Childhood Cancer. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
This year, the longtime musicians have reunited and formed a bond in the Oakland County village of Wolverine Lake to keep the benefit rock concert going. The second annual concert is on Saturday, Aug. 5 at Wolverine Lake’s Mallow Beach.<span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
CURE Childhood Cancer is a renowned <a href="https://curechildhoodcancer.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting pediatric </a>cancer and has been a beacon of hope for families battling this devastating disease since its inception in 1975. Having raised millions of dollars for research and support programs, the organization has been at the forefront of advancing treatments and improving the lives of young cancer patients. <span class="EOP SCXW70733859 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}"> 
Almost Famous lead vocalist and guitarist Tommy Ingham and Mcdonald, who are co-organizers of the benefit concert, talked with <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/about/contributors/#sarah">producer Sarah Zientarski</a> about McDonald’s battle with tongue cancer, the creation of their band Almost Famous and the benefit concert, and what it means to them to support a cause that has touched their lives too.
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Tommy Ingham, Lead Vocals and Guitar, Almost Famous: Start with music and people will come.
Eric &#8220;E&#8221; McDonald, Drums and Backup Vocals, Almost Famous: We&#8217;re doing this because we love it, but to be able to do this to help other people. I don&#8217;t know that I have the word. It&#8217;s incredible to be able to do that. Tommy and I were business partners in our band years ago and lost touch with each other for a long time.
Tommy Ingham: Years and years go by and I- Where I live out here in Wolverine Lake, there&#8217;s a little watering hole that some very dear friends of ours own called The Glengary. A great place. It&#8217;s Cheers. I was walking in the door, and I just saw this guy turn around, sitting at the bar, and he looked at me. And I looked at him, and I&#8217;m like, “Oh, my God. What are you doing here?” And it was divine in some sense of the word.
Eric &#8220;E&#8221; McDonald: I forgot he even lived out here. And it all just happened and bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. All of a sudden, we got everybody back. We got who we got. And it&#8217;s clicking.
Tommy Ingham: He says, “Hey, I talked to Don. He&#8217;s in.&#8221; And I was like, you&#8217;ve got to be kidding me. For us to get as lucky as we got and to land Randy Peavler, who- he&#8217;s just another guy that you just wouldn&#8217;t figure that you&#8217;d be able to land. And the rest is history. So that&#8217;s how Almost Famous began. This was before Eric knew that he was sick.
Eric &#8220;E&#8221; McDonald: I got married right up the road on the lake, also. Three weeks after that, I got diagnosed with stage four lung tongue cancer, all in here. I had to figure out how to go home and tell my wife that I just married three weeks earlier. And, of course, she was a champ.
We kind of got thrust into things pretty quickly because it was far along and didn&#8217;t know what was going to happen. The Wolverine Lake community helped me immediately after I found out. That was immediate. I had fans raising us money, back up, giving me rides to my treatments because I had to be out in Brighton, that U of M hospital in Brighton every day of the week.
Tommy Ingham: The Wolverine Lake community is magical. For Eric to land here, I don&#8217;t think was happenstance. I think Eric needed the Wolverine Lake community in his life.
Eric &#8220;E&#8221; McDonald: To love. Again, the words elude me for that, but it was massive. It was all-encompassing. A big giant hug. I wanted to play for the people in this community as a way of saying thank you. And how could I thank them? I want to play for them. And so I got with Tommy, and that&#8217;s when we put it together. The Almost Famous Benefit Concert benefiting to cure childhood cancer.
Tommy Ingham: And I went and talked to a gentleman named Mike Knish. And Mike Knish is one of our Wolverine villagers who is an incredible person. And Mike helped us secure Mallow Beach, which is a park that is right on the water on Wolverine Lake. And it is perfect for what we want to do because it&#8217;s not just about having a space, it&#8217;s about creating an atmosphere. It&#8217;s camping. It&#8217;s coolers. It&#8217;s really good friends and people.
Eric &#8220;E&#8221; McDonald: And we have a big giant barge that we pull up, and that is our stage. We pull it right up to the land so people can come and watch us from the land. And we also have people on the lake come out on boats and it&#8217;s a beautiful thing. Everybody just rocks out with us, and we have a good time. We&#8217;re asking for a $10 donation. So we&#8217;re not charging anything. If you don&#8217;t have anything and you want to come and enjoy it with us, absolutely welcome. But we are asking for donations to help out.
It&#8217;s all going to charity, Cure Childhood Cancer. They help children with cancer and their families. Support, financial support, and other kinds of support for the kids when they&#8217;re in the hospital. They try and make it affordable and easy, so it doesn&#8217;t wreck people financially and otherwise, not to mention emotionally.
Having gone through what I went through, I can&#8217;t imagine a child going through that, not knowing why or what. It just blows me away. There are two other acts before us on the bill, and both of them are wonderful. A guy named- Kenny and Rob. A guy plays acoustic, and a guy has a beatbox he plays on. They&#8217;re pretty cool and local.
And then some friends of ours, they are called Wax Radio. Now they&#8217;re doing a cover band thing out of Detroit. And then Almost Famous, we&#8217;re going to come out and wrap the night up and I have a surprise or two on board. It&#8217;s a labor of love. It really is. And it&#8217;s a beautiful thing. I&#8217;m hoping to be able to donate even more than we did last year and to help children.
Tommy Ingham: You&#8217;re going to be fulfilled if you come out. You&#8217;re going to have a great time. More importantly, you&#8217;re going to be fulfilled by the fact that you&#8217;re doing something incredible for people that need you.
Eric &#8220;E&#8221; McDonald: I hope people will come out and celebrate with us. This is a celebration also. I like that word of music and love and care and hope and all of that yummy stuff. And we&#8217;re going to rock and roll and just be together. I&#8217;m aware of what could happen, but it ain&#8217;t happening today, and I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s not going to happen tomorrow. And I&#8217;m going to see that stage again with my family and my friends, and I&#8217;m going to express myself and my love the way I know how to best.
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‘Almost Famous’ metro Detroit musicians band together to fight childhood cancer with benefit concert 

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At the intersection of positivity, community and eating healthy is Detroit restaurant and culinary business <a href="https://www.thekitchenbycwq.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Kitchen</a> by Cooking with Que. Founded by Quiana “Que” Broden, a renowned chef and entrepreneur, the business specializes in providing vegan and vegetarian meals and promoting healthy, plant-based eating options.  
RELATED: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rJFVp_9dFw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chef Quiana Broden shares her backstory and why she created Cooking with Que</a>
The idea for <a href="https://cookingwithque.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cooking with Que</a> was born out of <a href="https://cookingwithque.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Que’s personal journey of adopting a vegan lifestyle</a>. After facing health challenges, Broden made a conscious decision to change her diet. That’s when she discovered the benefits of plant-based cooking. Inspired by her own transformation, she wanted to share her culinary expertise and create a space where people could enjoy nutritious and satisfying vegan and vegetarian meals.  
&#8220;American Black Journal&#8221; contributor <a href="https://twitter.com/WillofMichigan">Will Glover</a>, a producer for &#8220;One Detroit,&#8221; visited The Kitchen to talk with Broden about how she kept her business thriving during the pandemic, how Detroit&#8217;s business community helps each other find success, and how her unyielding positivity motivates her desire to bring healthy food to neighborhoods across the country.
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Will Glover, Producer, One Detroit: One of the things that I hear a lot about working as a small business owner in Southeast Michigan, in Detroit, is that there is a community of partnership and essentially an ability and a want for people in this business environment to help each other out. Is that something that you&#8217;ve experienced when running your business, when getting started, when you come up against an obstacle that you need a solution for? How has the business community in Southeast Michigan, in Detroit, been there?
Quiana Broden, Owner and Executive Chef, The Kitchen by Cooking with Que: I will say that everybody I&#8217;ve come in contact with- I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m just blessed to meet the nicest people. People are very caring, they&#8217;re very warm welcoming, and they give you information. So if I know I&#8217;m trying to do something different that I wouldn&#8217;t normally do- I&#8217;m not good at no either, so when people say no to me that just means I&#8217;m talking to the wrong person. So I will go to people who will help me get the information that I need because I don&#8217;t know everything.
But I also think, vice versa, the things that are working for me, I share it with the people that were in my circle. And honestly, the people in Detroit, we&#8217;re like open books to each other. Because the thing about it is, what is the purpose of me having this information and die with the information? It&#8217;s just going to die with me? Why would I not want to share that?
I&#8217;m very big on that and I&#8217;m also very big on keeping the circle of people around me- that we&#8217;re sharing because we should all win. There&#8217;s enough for all of us to win. In my mind, I don&#8217;t look at other restaurateurs as competition. I don&#8217;t have competition. My competition is- I&#8217;m my own competition, not everybody else. We should all be able to win. And if I&#8217;m doing something that&#8217;s working for me and it makes me successful, why would I not want to tell you so you can be successful too?
Will Glover: How has the development that&#8217;s happening down here- how do you feel about it? When it comes to the development, are you excited about it? Are there concerns? Is there any trepidation? Where do you feel like you fit in?
Quiana Broden: I&#8217;m always looking at the positive. When I always look at the positive- there is no negative for me because the negative is a waste of energy. So my brain- I&#8217;m always looking at my mission, my purpose. If I know who my clients are, how do I market to those customers? When I opened right here on Woodward, it was nobody else. There was a clothing store. It was nothing. This was a block that was not- there was no gentrification. It was like, Que, why would you want to put this right here?
Because my brain said healthy food in every hood. People should not get food based off of their zip code. They should get food because it should be their human right. So my focus is always, how do I make this food more available? So in my mind, just as fast as you see- every time you see a McDonald&#8217;s, in my head, in the future, you&#8217;re going to see a kitchen because the goal is to put healthy food everywhere.
Because we have to be the people to change the perception of what it is. So I&#8217;m very glad that they&#8217;re bringing things back to the city. I&#8217;m glad that they&#8217;re allowing the people that are from the city to actually get these locations as well.
There are different associations that are always pushing for you to support the people who are local, allowed them to get into some of the places. Like, you&#8217;ve got the Metro Detroit Black Business Association. They&#8217;re always for the small business owner. And that&#8217;s a cool backing to have, but again, you make these allies with the people that are going to help you keep growing and you keep building.
So for me, I like the community in the way it is now but I also like that we are getting to see more. But you can&#8217;t make your whole business focused on if everybody else is on the block. It&#8217;s how am I going to bring clients to my location?
Will Glover: The biggest challenge that Southeast Michigan is facing, a big challenge that Detroit is facing, all metropolitan areas are facing is how do we get millennials and anyone who wants to start a business or anyone who wants to be a part of the workforce to come to Southeast Michigan, to come do it in places like Detroit?
Quiana Broden: So my focus, again, you know it&#8217;s going to be my mission and my purpose. But it&#8217;s also families. What do people do as a family? What do people do to get back to the table? So my brain wants to do things to bring people here.
So for us, we do cooking classes that you can bring all ages. We have to get people out of their houses and we also have to stop pushing fear on people. You&#8217;ve got to think about what people are at home looking at when they&#8217;re on the news. You can&#8217;t come to Detroit because of this. Yes, we&#8217;re changing their perspective of it, but I think people just need to see it&#8217;s a really family-oriented place. There&#8217;s things for you to do. You can come out to eat at all the restaurants.
Or if you are a person that has that business idea, don&#8217;t sit on it, but create programs that have them where they can come and sit with people who are business owners like me. Like, hey, you&#8217;ve got a business idea? Let&#8217;s sit and work with you on a business plan. Let&#8217;s get you from plan A to B to C. What does that look like? And make it more- and it&#8217;s not to say that there are not programs like that out there, but I think we need to talk about it more.
As much as we can talk about negative things, if we talk about those types of things, I think it would pique the interest of people that are not here. Not here in Detroit, because you get people from out— I have people that would say, I&#8217;m leaving New York to move to Detroit. So you get that, but what about the people that are here?
I&#8217;m always saying, look in your own backyard. Look around the City of Detroit, all the places that people are. When people were in the city and they moved to the suburbs and now why do we want them to come back? Put the same amenities that are in the suburbs in the city of Detroit. I shouldn&#8217;t have to go to the suburbs to find a healthy grocery store. I&#8217;m super excited that they&#8217;re bringing more grocery stores to Detroit, but Detroit is large.
We should all have the same accessibility to healthy food. How do I make that? How do I make that become, like, the squeaky wheel gets the oil? I tell people that come to my classes if you don&#8217;t open your mouth- closed mouths don&#8217;t get fed. If you don&#8217;t open your mouth and tell your neighborhood, hey, at every gas station or corner, I want you to stop just giving us chips and cookies. Give us healthy food. Until we make the noise, it&#8217;s not going to change.
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Cooking with Que Founder Quiana Broden brings plant-based dining to Detroit with The Kitchen

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Wareologie, a <a href="https://www.wareologie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan-based medical device company</a>, is making waves in the healthcare industry with its groundbreaking advancements in mobile and at-home caregiving. Led by innovative founder Gina Adams, the company has pioneered a range of innovative products that are transforming the lives of patients and caregivers alike.  
With products such as the revolutionary <a href="https://www.wareologie.com/product/new-improved-magnetic-button-adaptor-dressing-aid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buttons 2 Button Magnetic Adapter Set</a> and <a href="https://www.wareologie.com/parallel-bars/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Portable Parallel Bars</a> for physical therapy, Wareologie’s efforts to redefine the landscape of accessible and convenient healthcare solutions don’t go unnoticed easily. The company is quickly becoming a trailblazer in the field of assistive technology. 
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One Detroit Producer <a href="https://twitter.com/WillofMichigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Glover</a>, host of One Detroit’s Future of Work series, met up with Adams at the Centrepolis Accelerator, where Wareologie began as a startup, to talk about the inspiration behind her products and the process of getting them to market.  
RELATED: <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/business-entrepreneurship/centrepolis-michigans-only-manufactured-product-incubator-accelerator-future-of-work/">Centrepolis Accelerator: Michigan’s only manufactured product incubator</a>
They talk about the inspiration she’s found from her parents’ struggles as they aged, the difficulty of creating a commercial product, the resources the state could provide to help startups, and the importance of keeping the company in Michigan to promote job growth in the state.  
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Will Glover, @WillofMichigan: After my future work conversation with Dan Radomski, the founder of Michigan&#8217;s only manufactured product incubator, Centrepolis Accelerator. I wanted to talk to a company they had worked with in health care, because this is a sector that will need to grow its workforce and innovate to meet the needs of a large and aging Michigan population. So Dan suggested I talk to Gina Adams, CEO of Wareologie, who&#8217;s an innovator in the healthcare space who first found success with buttons 2 button magnetic adapter. A no-cell solution for converting shirt buttons into magnetic closures. What was the initial inspiration behind buttons 2 button? Where did this idea come from? 
Gina Adams, Founder &amp; CEO, Wareologie: Thank you for asking. My stepfather was struggling with Parkinson&#8217;s and there&#8217;s a ripple effect on caregivers such as my mom. And so it&#8217;s not only that physical impact, but the emotional toll it takes when you have somebody as, you know, my stepfather was a Ph.D. engineer. And so, to lose any sense of independence, he was our rock of the family. And so, to take one activity that he could regain and do independently, that eally impacts a person&#8217;s emotional well-being. That&#8217;s really the impetus behind it. 
Will Glover: With the success of Buttons 2 Button, Gina has introduced another product, portable parallel bars for physical therapy, a mobile therapy solution on wheels that delivers physical therapy treatment safely. But getting it into the hands of the people who need it the most poses challenges that, if addressed, could give other Michigan healthcare product companies an edge in the global healthcare market. Do you think that there&#8217;s something that can be done there to make the on-ramp to getting a product manufactured for a small company easier? 
Gina Adams: You know, we&#8217;re in what they call the valley, right? You have the idea. You have to put a lot of money into that to get it through the development phase, the prototype phase. And then when you move into commercialization, everything takes on a whole new, I would say, cost. 
Will Glover: Right. Yeah. 
Gina Adams: So, you know what the state could provide for us, I believe, is a little more access to that runway of how do you get your product commercialized and into the market. You can&#8217;t do it alone. The windows are pretty tight because of the networks. I&#8217;ve been to the doctor over eight times, getting all of my vaccines, like hepatitis and typhoid and all of these things so that I could actually walk into a hospital and service the hospital as a vendor. So there&#8217;s a lot of these hoops that I feel while they are there and the protocols are important because you need safety in place, but for medical devices, we&#8217;re really trying to revolutionize people&#8217;s health. It would be great if there was an incubator that kind of supported that. 
Will Glover: Something to help navigate the process overall? 
Gina Adams: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was at a conference and we&#8217;re there with large global medical wholesale suppliers and, you know, getting a foot in the door is not always easy. 
Will Glover:  As you&#8217;re going through this journey, as you&#8217;re developing these products, as you&#8217;re building this company, you&#8217;ve stayed here in Michigan. 
Gina Adams: Well, we&#8217;re based here in southeast Michigan and have incredible access to world-class manufacturing. And there&#8217;s no better place to develop a product, in my opinion. The opportunity to create jobs here in our home state is really important to us. And because we are committed to helping people with disabilities, we are excited to also partner with not only our manufacturers but down to the people that kit our products. 
So the first product buttons 2 button actually kitted by people with disabilities as a form of job creation. It&#8217;s great to have the opportunity to collaborate directly with your manufacturers so that we are building together. There&#8217;s a lot of lessons learned along the way, and to take a product from a prototype that&#8217;s 3D printed into a commercialized product is a huge leap. And so, working here with incredible manufacturers has really helped expedite the process, versus, I can&#8217;t imagine the cost of going overseas. Whether they&#8217;re in a bed or they&#8217;re in a wheelchair and standing up, now you have something that is structurally&#8230;.. 
Will Glover: In the next five years. What do you hope for the future of work at your company? 
Gina Adams: You know, the next five years are going to be so exciting because we know that we have sales verticals within the V.A. We have hospitals that have given us the thumbs up. They have use for it. It&#8217;s a matter of going through those protocols. If we can help people get standing sooner and safer, we&#8217;re going to be in a great spot. 
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On a sunny spring day in Detroit, residents are likely spending time outside, taking in the fresh air, but for some residents across the city the air isn’t so fresh. On the city’s southeast side, resident and activist Robert Shobe chooses to stay inside most days to avoid breathing in the <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroit-council-stellantis-odors-relocate-residents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polluted air from a Stellantis assembly plant</a> less than 500 feet from his backyard. 
In Southwest Detroit’s 48217 ZIP code, noted as being among the most polluted areas in Michigan, long-time environmental activist and <a href="https://caphedetroit.sph.umich.edu/project/theresa-landrum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroiter Theresa Landrum</a> said residents are surrounded by more than 42 major and minor polluting sources, which have been connected to a breadth of health issues from cancer to heart disease and diabetes and contribute to global climate change. 
In recognition of Earth Month, One Detroit contributor Bryce Huffman sat down with the two environmental activists to talk about how air pollution and poor air quality have an impact both on climate change and residents’ overall health. 
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Plus he talks with two city officials who are part of the city’s <a href="https://detroitmi.gov/departments/general-services-department/office-sustainability" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Sustainability</a> — the office’s new Director of Sustainability Jack Akinlosotu and Detroit’s Chief Strategy Officer Trisha Stein, who oversees the Sustainability office — about the efforts the city officials are putting in to reduce air pollution and improve the city’s air quality.
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Bryce Huffman, BridgeDetroit, Reporter: It&#8217;s a sunny spring day on Detroit&#8217;s southeast side. Most people would spend time outside to enjoy it, but not Detroiter and activist Robert Shobe. He&#8217;s staying inside to avoid breathing the polluted air outside of his home. 
Robert Shobe, Activist, Justice for Beniteau: I&#8217;m afraid to go outside and just breathe my air or do anything to that degree. 
Bryce Huffman: Shobe lives on Beniteau Street and has been in his house for 26 years. His home is less than 500 feet away from a Stellantis assembly plant on Mack. Since the plant was built, Stellantis has been given seven different air quality violations by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. The company has also been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for these violations. 
The 60-year-old Detroiter said he and his neighbors have complained of burning and itching in their eyes and throat, difficulty breathing and even headaches and nausea. Air quality issues contribute to climate change, the long-term change in temperature and weather patterns. Shobe says the issues with air quality got worse when the plant began painting vehicles back in 2021. 
Robert Shobe: Well, first noticed the air, a change in the air that would have been in May of 2000&#8230; I mean 2019 when they first started. But it was nothing near what it was like when they started painting cars over there. 
Bryce Huffman: Protecting his own health and that of his neighborhood has been an ongoing fight for Shobe and the other residents who make up justice for Beniteau. The group&#8217;s goal is to hold the city accountable for air pollution and other issues resulting from the Stellantis plant. Representatives from Stellantis did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Shobes says he wishes the fight were over, but he knows he has to look out for his neighborhood&#8217;s future. 
When you think about future generations growing up with these air pollutants, what concerns you most about that scenario? 
Robert Shobe: I&#8217;ve been around the United States. I&#8217;ve been a lot of places. I&#8217;ve been around different plants. It&#8217;s standard practice to have a burn between the community. Nobody is 400 feet away from a volatile facility like this. There&#8217;s no way. I don&#8217;t&#8230; I&#8217;m no scientist, but I really don&#8217;t see how they can make it safe for people this close. 
Bryce Huffman: The city&#8217;s Eastside residents aren&#8217;t the only ones to feel the impacts of air pollution. Southwest Detroit&#8217;s 48217 ZIP code is notorious for being among the most polluted areas of the state. 
Theresa Landrum, Activist, Southwest Detroit Resident: We&#8217;re surrounded by more than 42 major and minor polluting sources, not knowing that the very industry that my father, my brothers, my aunts, my uncles and mom worked at were the very industries that were having an impact on our health as far as air quality. 
Bryce Huffman: This is Theresa Landrum, a longtime environmental activist and Southwest Detroiter. 
Talk to me about these industry polluters. What have conversations been like trying to make them more energy efficient, make them greener, make them safer for the community? 
Theresa Landrum: Industry is here for profit, right? We&#8217;re here for survival. So it has not been an easy road to talk to them about their industry&#8217;s impact. On the health of the community. We have high rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, you name it, we have it here. 
We&#8217;ve been talking with industry and with the state, as well as the EPA on emission reduction that companies use the best available technology for pollution control. Also, we&#8217;ve been talking with the state EPA and industry about alternatives that they can utilize. Don&#8217;t go the cheaper method because it&#8217;s more profit for your company and your stakeholders and your board members. Look at the very people that you&#8217;re impacting. 
Bryce Huffman: Landrum has also spoken with companies with a more global presence about their carbon footprint. 
Theresa Landrum: Because we know that greenhouse gases are the things that are fueling climate change. We&#8217;re in the midst of a climate crisis globally, so we have to look to other countries, other manufacturers, other than the ones that are in our home. Right. To talk to them about a global solution. 
Bryce Huffman: Inside the Coleman A. Young Municipal Building is Detroit&#8217;s Office of Sustainability. It&#8217;s tasked with reducing carbon emissions and improving air quality, among other goals. We sat down with Jack Akinlosotu, the city&#8217;s new director of sustainability. 
Jack Akinlosotu, Director of Sustainability, Detroit Office of Sustainability: Yeah, I think one of the big things that we do overall is making sure that we&#8217;re doing all we can to deploy all of our resources to lower the greenhouse gases for the city. We want to make sure that we&#8217;re doing all we can, whether it&#8217;s building energy performance or deploying renewable energy across the city. We want to make sure we&#8217;re doing everything we can to ultimately lower our greenhouse gas emissions. 
Bryce Huffman: We also sat down with the city&#8217;s chief strategy officer, Trisha Stein, who oversees the sustainability office. 
Why is improving air quality such a big deal for a city like ours and with residents like ours? 
Trisha Stein, Chief Strategy Officer, Detroit Office of Sustainability: Yeah, well, it certainly hits the most vulnerable residents the hardest. Climate change and air quality and our rates of asthma and public health are such that need to be addressed and make sure that we have mitigation efforts and it&#8217;s applied in an equitable matter. 
Bryce Huffman: What is improving air quality look like? 
Trisha Stein: Well, one of the things that our Building and Safety Department is doing is really twofold is they just got a grant for some air monitors and hired an air quality specialist. So they are leaning in and figuring out what role they can play to monitor the air. Also, a green buffer. We&#8217;ve got a partnership with U.S. Forestry to plant thousands of trees every year around the city. And the mayor wants us to target the most blighted industrial sites to ensure that there is a green buffer. 
Bryce Huffman: If you could talk to the Office of Sustainability about what&#8217;s going on over here, what would you want to tell them? 
Robert Shobe: The first thing you&#8217;ve got to do is buy out the people over in here and you&#8217;ve got to create a safety burn between whatever residents that&#8217;s left. Do a factual study of what was happening here and figure out how to mitigate it from going any further. We know they&#8217;re not going to tear down a multibillion-dollar complex for us, but the first thing they could do is get this done right over here. 
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Melody Williams, a legally blind paratransit rider in Detroit, wakes up every morning at 3 a.m. to get ready for her 4:30 a.m. ride to the dialysis center for her appointment. While the paratransit services eventually get Williams to her location, <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/city-transit-service-in-question-for-riders-with-disabilities/">it&#8217;s not often without a bump in the road</a> she says. Under the city’s former paratransit services, provided by Transdev, riders might be dropped off at the wrong location, picked up late, or not treated with care.  
Williams wasn’t alone in her criticism of MetroLift, the Detroit Department of Transportation’s paratransit service, either. The paratransit services faced enough scrutiny that in November 2022 Detroit City Council members <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/transit-detroiters-with-disabilities-at-risk/">voted against a contract extension for Transdev</a>, and in December <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/duggan-paratransit-service/">Mayor Mike Duggan used his emergency powers</a> to ensure the city still offered paratransit services under the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT).  
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Since then, DDOT has continued to fill the paratransit services with temporary contractors as they search for a long-term provider. At the same time, the Department of Justice is looking into if the city has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing riders with disabilities.  
One Detroit contributor Bryce Huffman sat down with Williams to learn more about her experiences as a rider and what she hopes to get from the new service provider. Plus, Huffman talks with Mikel Oglesby, executive director of transit for Detroit, about what the future holds for Detroit’s paratransit services. 
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Bryce Huffman, BridgeDetroit, Reporter: It&#8217;s half past four am on East Ferry Street. The roads are nearly empty on this early Friday morning, but Detroiter Melody Williams is up and waiting for the paratransit van to arrive. 
Melody Williams, Legally Blind Paratransit Rider: Getting up this early is just part of her weekday routine. Today, she&#8217;s using it to get to her dialysis treatment. On Mondays, I do dialysis, so I get a one-way trip. My day start at 3:00 in the morning and my ride is from 4:30 to 5:00.
Around about 10:00, I&#8217;m off the machine and then my family members come and pick me up and then I go to work.  And then in the afternoon, I get off about 2:30. So I have another ride scheduled for MetroLift. That&#8217;s on Monday. And on Tuesday from 9:00 I go to work and Wednesday back to dialysis. Thursday, work again. And then on Fridays I do dialysis. 
Bryce Huffman: The van picks up and drops off other passengers on the way to Williams treatment. Like many people using the service, Williams is visually impaired. 
Melody Williams: It&#8217;s considered as legally blind. So I have vision, but not clarity. Like if you put a Ziploc bag to your eye. That&#8217;s what I see. 
Bryce Huffman: Williams has been legally blind since 2010. She spent ten months in Kalamazoo learning to navigate life without full vision. That included learning how to catch the bus now that she couldn&#8217;t drive herself. 
Melody Williams: When I came back to Detroit, I wanted to continue that. So I wouldn&#8217;t be stuck in the house and dependent on my girlfriends or my aunts or my sons or my friends. You know, different people&#8230; my neighbor, to take me backward and forth. I signed up for MetroLift. 
Bryce Huffman: MetroLift, is Detroit&#8217;s Paratransit service. A transportation option specifically for people living with disabilities or other mobility challenges. William&#8217;s has been using the service since 2017. How do you make the decision to schedule or get a ride from someone else? 
Melody Williams: When I do dialysis on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, when I get off that machine about 10:00, I be extremely sick and weak. So therefore, if I take MetroLift, there is no telling when I might get home and how I will make it. So therefore my family members will come and pick me up on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Everybody got a certain day. 
Bryce Huffman: In November, City Council voted against a new contract for Transdev, the company that operated the Paratransit service. Riders who use the service often complain about how unreliable the company was. Williams said drivers would leave passengers in the wrong locations, pick them up late, and sometimes not pick them up at all. 
Melody Williams: It&#8217;s sometimes frustrating. But we don&#8217;t have no other choice. How are going to get the doctors. How are we going to get to the grocery store? How are we going to get to our treatments? Cancer patients and stuff they do. They use MetroLift as well. They&#8217;ll be own on scooters. It&#8217;s horrible. 
Bryce Huffman: Detroit&#8217;s Paratransit service could look very different by summer, however. At the Detroit Department of Transportation office, we sat down with Mikel Oglesby. He&#8217;s the executive director of Transit for the City.  
At the end of last year, obviously, there was a little bit of debate about if there should be a contract extension or approval for Transdev. A lot of folks in the 88 community weren&#8217;t fans of them. Could you briefly describe just kind of how that resolved itself from when the contract was rejected to where we are now? 
Mikel Oglesby, Executive Director of Transit, City of Detroit: Sure. It&#8217;s pretty straightforward. We put out an RFP, a request for proposal for service. There were two providers that responded. One was Peoples and one was Transdev. The end result was that the 30% People&#8217;s Express were approved and the other 70% was not. 
Bryce Huffman: In December, Mayor Mike Duggan used his emergency powers to make a temporary fix to the problem. 
Mikel Oglesby: I was really excited that he gave us the tools to do our job and that was to move forward with additional providers to be able to fill that gap. 
Bryce Huffman: The city started seeking out new bids for the long-term contract last month. Now that DDOT runs the entire system&#8230; What sort of changes have you noticed as the person in charge of running the system and what have you been hearing from the people who use the Paratransit system? 
Mikel Oglesby: Well, I will tell you, we took it over the beginning of the year and the response has been like night and day. They like the customer service. We&#8217;re providing professional service. We are handling complaints expeditiously. And the overall general response is very positive. 
Bryce Huffman: But what do people who rely on the system, like Williams say about the new companies providing service, and how does she compare it to Transdev? You rode with People&#8217;s Express today. If you could rate them out of ten, what would you rate People&#8217;s Express and then what would you rate Transdev out of ten? 
Melody Williams: Okay People&#8217;s&#8230; They always have good drivers and therefore one thing I like about People&#8217;s now they have cars. So therefore a lot of seniors that cannot get up in those high vans can get in a lower car.  So I say service for now&#8230; I give them about an eight, eight and a half. 
Bryce Huffman: Okay, that&#8217;s pretty good. And what about Transdev? 
Melody Williams: Zero. 
Bryce Huffman: And as for the long-term solution, six months from now, what do you want to see happen? What would you like to see DDOT do? 
Melody Williams: I would like to be consistency. With our driver&#8217;s, consistency. A clean van. Take care of your seniors. Get out of the car and help them when you know they&#8217;re handicapped and they barely can get in. Definitely be on time. I know sometimes it&#8217;s hard to do that because when you&#8217;re working with a large city, it&#8217;s more than one client. It&#8217;s over 1,000 rides a day. 
Bryce Huffman: The Department of Justice is now looking to ensure the city isn&#8217;t violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing disabled passengers. 
Melody Williams: So, I understand it&#8217;s hard, but they need a better system, a much better system than what we have now. 
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Biking: it&#8217;s more than just exercise. It’s equitable transportation, entertainment and a way for people to be introduced to Detroit and what the city has to offer. That&#8217;s the motto that motivates <a href="https://ridetroit.com/jasonhall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biking advocate Jason Hall</a>, the founder of RiDetroit, the co-founder and former president of Slow Roll Detroit, and the owner and operator of Trek Bicycle Midtown Detroit. 
Hall opened <a href="https://ridetroit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RiDetroit</a>, an ebike tour company, in 2018 to tap into the potential of electric bikes. Around the same time, Hall was building a community of cyclists every Monday in Detroit through <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyErM_I9Zp8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Slow Roll Detroit</a>. The Slow Roll idea has since expanded to other cities across the nation after Hall and company were featured in a SuperBowl commercial.
During the pandemic, Hall opened Electric Avenue Bikes, Detroit&#8217;s first only-ebike shop. In 2022, Hall partnered with Trek Bicycles, converting Electric Avenue Bikes to <a href="https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/retail/detroit_midtown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trek Bicycle Midtown Detroit</a>, bringing the global bicycle retailer to the Motor City.
As Hall has heightened the popularity of biking around Detroit and across the nation, what has been biking&#8217;s influence on downtown Detroit? How can biking play a role in Detroit&#8217;s post-pandemic recovery? One Detroit contributor<a href="https://twitter.com/SHDetroit"> Stephen Henderson</a>, host of<a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/"> &#8220;American Black Journal,&#8221;</a> talks with Hall about the importance of having a high-end bike shop in Detroit, and the benefits of biking— the economic benefits for the city, the health benefits for the rider and the environmental benefits for our climate. 
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Stephen Henderson, Host of American Black Journal: Jason Hall, great to see you here at The Detroit Policy Conference.
Jason Hall, Founder, RiDetroit: What is happening, brother?
Stephen Henderson: I mean, we go back so far. Years and years and years. But let&#8217;s start with the way that I really know you, which is through biking and all the things that you&#8217;ve done around biking in the city of Detroit. We&#8217;re here at the Policy Conference where we&#8217;re here talking about downtown Detroit.
I feel like two things are true. Biking has really changed Downtown Detroit and Midtown. And Midtown and Downtown have really changed biking in Detroit. But I&#8217;m really curious, as somebody who really kicked off the interest in biking in Detroit, how do you see that?
Jason Hall: For once, I can&#8217;t give myself the props on this one. I&#8217;d like to say I had a little bit to do with it, but I think what really changed biking downtown in Midtown was the bike share. You know, MoGo. The introduction of that. I&#8217;ll be honest, when they rolled it out, I&#8217;m saying, who&#8217;s going to use these? But then all of a sudden you see entire things empty, and you see everybody out on bikes downtown. So, I mean, yeah, Slow Roll might have played into that.
Stephen Henderson: I was going to say, is there someone else that I don&#8217;t know, who had thousands of people biking at the same time?
Jason Hall: That might have played a little into it, but I&#8217;m going to give it to MoGo on this one. I think them really examining where those kiosks needed to go and putting them in the right places really changed the footprint of downtown.
Stephen Henderson: And all of these things work together. Slow Roll, your event, really got people, not just interested in biking, but interested in the city. I remember the number of people who would come from all over the place on Monday night to bike through Detroit. It wasn&#8217;t just about bikes, right? And MoGo, too. It&#8217;s about transportation, it&#8217;s about entertainment, it&#8217;s about the way that the city is kind of changing to welcome people who didn&#8217;t feel a part of it before.
Jason Hall: Absolutely. The introduction of that ride really broke down a lot of barriers for people. The fear barrier, all that stuff. When you&#8217;re in numbers like that, everybody feels welcome. I think that just gave people a different outlook on what the city is.
Trust me, I do tours nowadays and a lot of people come here, and they have this perception that they&#8217;ve always had. But when you get out on a bike and you see everything, you really get to connect with the community. And downtown is a community. Even though people don&#8217;t think about it necessarily as a neighborhood, it is a community within itself. And I think it needs bicycling. Absolutely.
Stephen Henderson: So when we think about downtown coming back after the pandemic, lots of people are worried about, not the nightlife part of it, but the daytime part of it. Transportation is a big part of it, right? Like, how people get from one place to the other. Do you see biking playing a different role in this Detroit than in the pre-pandemic Detroit?
Jason Hall: Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Now it&#8217;s a different ballgame. The pandemic&#8230; Once the governor said, everybody, get out and ride a bike, everybody got out and rode a bike. Well, now all those bikes are somewhere. And it&#8217;s my job to not sell them the bike, but now get them on it. So that&#8217;s how my role has really changed before.
With Slow Roll even, it was getting people on the bike, getting people out. Like I said, now they know about bikes. Now I have to remind them about the experience and give them different experiences. Downtown riding is completely different than riding in Rouge Park on the bike trails. And so that&#8217;s my job. And I embrace that. I love being a part of the educational process and learning about bikes and now let&#8217;s learn how it can change your life.
Stephen Henderson: So you have transitioned to a really different role in terms of biking. Part of what you&#8217;re talking about there. Tell us what you&#8217;re up to though and how that fits in the frame and downtown.
Jason Hall: It&#8217;s funny. When I first wanted to open a bike shop, the first thing I said is Detroit needs a Trek-type store. And what I mean by that is we had a lot of bike shops that sold used bikes and sold inexpensive bikes. But we needed a place that sold a top quality, and I hate to say expensive, but a pricier bike. We needed that. And so years ago I said that. Lo and behold, years later, we opened this bike shop in Detroit called The Electric Avenue Bikes, and we specialized in electric bikes. And then Trek buys us. So a month ago, Trek acquired us.
So it&#8217;s almost like a weird dream come true because opening a bike shop, you have ideas, but you&#8217;re hindered by budget.  Now I work with Trek, which is the best bike maker in the world. And I have access to budgets and marketing that I never would have had access to. So, I always joke if somebody came to me in the old days and said, can I have $1,000? I would&#8217;ve said, are you crazy? But now I can say, well, you know what, there&#8217;s a grant that I can maybe help you get that money. And so I am very excited about Electric Avenue bikes being acquired by Trek and us having an official Trek store in Detroit.
Stephen Henderson: So for viewers who are not familiar, tell us about the e-bikes. Electric bike. What is that and why is that another step forward in the innovation of getting more people on the bike?
Jason Hall: Absolutely. So the electric bike is an electric pedal assist bike. Exactly how it sounds. There&#8217;s a couple of different kinds. There&#8217;s a kind that does have a throttle, but we don&#8217;t deal with that because we want people to ride the bike. So when you introduce assistance to someone, they&#8217;re not aware of what that is. And what that is just a little bit of extra boost that you can add to your ride.
Now, it sounds very simple, but imagine you&#8217;re a seventy-year-old person, you haven&#8217;t written a bike in 20 years, and you&#8217;re intimidated by getting back on that bike because you know you might not have the power to make that move. Well, now you&#8217;ve got assistance. So now I can break down that barrier of fear and I can say, let&#8217;s get on the bike and see. I&#8217;ve seen 70, 80-year-old people get on bikes and a week later call me and say, I just did my first 20 miles that I&#8217;ve done in 20 years. That&#8217;s what the electric bike does. It opens the door for people to come back.
And it also opens the door for new experiences. What we tell people is that you can go further, faster. So you can imagine&#8230; When I tell people I ride 100 miles a day, they look at me like I&#8217;m crazy. I do everything on my electric bike. It has replaced my car.
Stephen Henderson: That&#8217;s the thing, right? Does it feed into the energy we depend on? All these other things. It&#8217;s about conservation and all of those things in addition to training.
Jason Hall:  Absolutely. I tell people all the time, we&#8217;re not trying to replace your bike. We&#8217;re trying to replace your car. If all those trips that you take that are a mile, five miles, you should not be starting a car. If we can get you on a bike and show you once you get an e-bike, how easy it is.
And we talked about cargo bikes. I can throw everything in a cargo bike now. My groceries, everything. Now, I&#8217;m not paying the ridiculous gas prices. I get to call my insurance company and say I don&#8217;t really even drive the car. So we&#8217;re talking about financial, but then we&#8217;re also going to talk about how I used to weigh 240 pounds and I&#8217;m down to 185. So there&#8217;s too many benefits to not be involved in this movement.
Stephen Henderson: Alright, Jason, great to see you. Great to see you doing great things for the city of Detroit.
Jason Hall: It is amazing. You&#8217;re talking about me. Every time I turn on the radio, I&#8217;m like that&#8217;s my neighbor right there. I love it, brother. I love it.
Stephen Henderson: Thanks for being here.
Jason Hall: No problem.
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Detroit’s car-centric infrastructure has long impeded its citizens without adequate transportation or housing from accessing the resources they need. From the lack of public restrooms to healthcare disparities in underserved communities, citizens are not able to get to brick-and-mortar facilities like they used to. 
That&#8217;s when two Detroit organizations started to change how they looked at the problem. If people can’t get to them, then they’ll meet people where they are. 
The WAVE Project, short for <a href="https://www.waveproject.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Welcoming All Valuing Everyone</a>, is addressing the needs of the homeless community by providing mobile closets, hygiene kits, and showers. Through mobile shower vans, the WAVE Project now travels to communities across metro Detroit to offer their services to those who need them without being tied down to a single location. 
<figure id="attachment_28581" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-28581" style="width: 700px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-28581" src="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ONE-DETROIT-732-Mobile-Outreach-Still-2.jpg" alt="WAVE Project shower van" width="700" height="394" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-28581" class="wp-caption-text">The WAVE Project offers mobile shower vans to people without access to a shower or other hygiene products. | Photo by One Detroit</figcaption></figure>
The benefits of mobile outreach vans proved useful in the healthcare industry too, and Wayne State University&#8217;s School of Medicine quickly jumped on board. The university&#8217;s <a href="https://www.waynehealthcares.org/mobile-health-unit/">Wayne Health Mobile Units</a> are bringing health screenings, vaccines and preventative care to communities with health disparities. 
One Detroit’s Rose LaForest sat down with WAVE Project Co-Founders Todd and Laura Gordon, as well as a handful of people involved with the Wayne Health Mobile Unit program to learn more about the services they both provide.
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Rose LaForest, One Detroit: Today, just west of downtown Detroit, in Corktown, next to Saint Peter&#8217;s Episcopal Church, The Wayne Health Mobile units have brought the doctor&#8217;s office to the people. They have eight units total. Each is equipped to provide health screenings, vaccines, and preventative care to communities to address disparities and barriers to access. Catherine Goggin is their mobile health unit manager.
Catherine Goggin, Mobile Health Mobile Units, Manager: We eliminate a lot of those barriers. Why people don&#8217;t get health care, whether it be that they don&#8217;t have transportation, or they&#8217;re scared to see a physician? We look at that person as a whole. Why aren&#8217;t they getting their medication filled? Why aren&#8217;t they going to the doctor? Is it they have to put food on their table versus making a doctor&#8217;s appointment and paying that co-pay? We take that out. We bring everything to them in their community, where they work, where they workshop, and get them the care that they need.
Rose LaForest: Disparities in resources and health care have plagued cities like Detroit for decades, but have recent events helped create a possible solution? Program director Dr. Phillip Levy explains.
Phillip Levy, Wayne Health Mobile Units, Program Director: The Mobile Health Unit program was designed as an initiative during the pandemic to bring COVID-related services to people in the community. Understanding that in the early stages of the pandemic, testing, for instance, wasn&#8217;t readily available. And what we were finding is that in a lot of neighborhoods, people couldn&#8217;t get to a location to get testing. So we decided to bring the testing to them.
Paul Kurian, Wayne Health Mobile Unit, Site Coordinator: Originally, we started with just treating first responders like police, fire, EMS, doctors, nurses, and people that work in the hospital. We did that for about a month or two, and then we eventually expanded to community testing.
Phillip Levy: The response to this has been overwhelming. We&#8217;ve done more than 82,000 encounters in the community since then. And what we&#8217;ve realized is that this idea of bringing services to people with mobile health opportunities doesn&#8217;t have to stop with COVID. There are a lot of health care needs in the communities in and around the city of Detroit, and a lot of people don&#8217;t have the access to health care services they need, especially for things like high blood pressure and diabetes and high cholesterol.
Rose LaForest: Additional needs are being addressed with this new resource model, too. The WAVE (Welcoming All Valuing Everyone) Project is another organization using its mobile presence to provide resources in the community. For them, it&#8217;s about hygiene. Detroit has no more than seven public restrooms per every 100,000 residents. This creates an obstacle for Detroit&#8217;s homeless community. This is Todd Gordon, music teacher and co-founder of The WAVE Project.
Todd Gordon, WAVE Project, Co-Founder: We are just regular people, a group of friends that were all serving in a local multi-sect church. And at a certain point, we were meeting, doing small groups, and we just felt really led to getting out into the community and help.
Rose LaForest: Inspired by a group providing mobile showers in San Francisco, it was time to see if Detroit could use these services as well.
Todd Gordon: So over time, we started doing local outreach barbecues in Mount Clemens. Our goal was to not only serve food and provide clothing and hygiene kits but to get to know the community and to really build some relationships and ask and voice to them if mobile hygiene services would be needed. And overwhelmingly, people said yes.
Laura Gordon, WAVE Project, Co-Founder: This is from an organization called Blessing Bags Brigade, and they provide us with 100 hygiene kits a month. And they stock it with bar soap, deodorant, shampoo, lotion, toothpaste, toothbrush, razor, chapstick, a washcloth, and a little encouraging note. We are pretty stocked. We have everything from t-shirts, underwear, jogging pants, hoodies, socks, and plenty of hygiene items. We even have things like backpacks, coats, thermals, and things like that.
Todd Gordon: Sometimes they&#8217;re in complete disbelief that, yes, we&#8217;re giving you all this new clothing for free. And walk right over there and use our warm, safe, nice bathroom for as long as you need. And please come back and have a conversation with us.
Laura Gordon: We will have people who come to kind of- it&#8217;s almost like they&#8217;re just checking things out. And maybe they&#8217;ll just get some clothes the first time, and maybe the next time, they&#8217;ll talk a little bit. And they may come several times before they&#8217;re comfortable enough to take a shower, maybe. Just getting comfortable with the situation and building that trust is really important to this community.
Todd Gordon: There is a lot of dignity in just coming up to another human, looking him in the eyes, allowing them some space to share how their day is going or their story, and then we&#8217;re able to say, hey, use our resources. And there&#8217;s a lot that goes into that on the back end, you know, that I&#8217;m leaving feeling loved, feeling fulfilled.
Rose LaForest: In order to be successful, these programs need to create connections and build trust. This means organizations can&#8217;t only show up in the community but must become a part of it.
Josephine Quaye-Molex, Wayne Health Mobile Units, Registered Nurse: I didn&#8217;t realize how closely with the community I could work and working with Wayne Mobile Health actually gives me an opportunity to do some preventative care as opposed to trying to stop the train as it&#8217;s coming crashing towards me.
Phillip Levy: It&#8217;s really a by-any-means-necessary approach to get the resources to people who need them. It&#8217;s great to have community centers and things like that. They&#8217;re wonderful. They&#8217;re great hubs for this type of thing, but they don&#8217;t work for everybody. Bringing resources to people is going to be the best way to alleviate the barriers that prevent them from getting those resources in an alternative means.
Todd Gordon: When we think about how things have shifted culturally or even the challenges associated with the traditional models, mobile services are really attractive in that the initial capital outlay tends to be much smaller, and then you can provide services to a larger radius of people.
Rose LaForest: Not only can these services reach more people, these services can save lives.
Phillip Levy: People in Detroit on average are dying 5 to 15 years younger, depending on the community, than other communities across the state. The life expectancy in Detroit is much lower than other areas in the state. It&#8217;s called lifespan inequality. The reason for that is because people develop conditions earlier and they die of complications earlier. If you address those conditions, not only are you keeping people healthier longer, you&#8217;re having people who are a part of a more vibrant community.
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They’ll drive to you: Mobile health outreach addresses homeless needs, health disparities across Detroit

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Music has a way of helping people connect with each other, and also with themselves. At Kadima, a <a href="https://www.kadimacenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mental health services center</a> for people dealing with persistent mental health challenges who need help living independently in the community, its <a href="https://www.kadimacenter.org/services/creative-expressions-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creative Expressions program</a> has given clients the opportunity to blend music and arts with their treatment goals. 
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The <a href="https://www.dso.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO)</a> has partnered with Kadima to teach group music classes where clients learn beginner and intermediate music skills, as well as how to play along to their favorite songs. One Detroit Arts &amp; Culture Producer Sarah Smith takes viewers behind the scenes of the center&#8217;s music therapy classes with the DSO for a look at the benefits of music therapy. 
She talks with Kadima Executive Director Eric Adelman, client Michael Offen, and <a href="https://www.dso.org/about-the-dso/our-orchestra/woodwinds/clarinet/shannon-orme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shannon Orme</a>, the bass clarinetist for the DSO, about how music and creative arts can help clients through healing, and how the program is helping to break down stigmas around mental health treatment. 
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Shannon Orme, Bass Clarinetist, Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Music is a way to connect with people.
Eric Adelman, Executive Director, Kadima Mental Health Services: There are people with gifts and talents and struggles like all of us have.
Shannon Orme: They&#8217;re some of the most eager students I&#8217;ve ever seen; ever worked with, which really makes it enjoyable.
Michael Offen: I needed help. My mom got me to come here and it&#8217;s helped me that they&#8217;ve had a lot of activities. So I get out more, talking with people, socializing.
Eric Adelman: Kadima serves people who are struggling with typically chronic and persistent mental health challenges, who need support to be able to live independently in the community.
Eric Adelman: Kadima&#8217;s Creative Expressions program was started to provide the people we serve with opportunities to experience the arts and then to have that integrated with their formal treatment goals. Studies go back years showing the benefit of participating in arts programming for people with mental health challenges. We were introduced to a number of arts organizations, including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, that come and work with the people we serve.
Shannon Orme: Music is important for therapy because it helps people get in touch with their emotions.
Shannon Orme: We need to really feel in our lives in order to get better and music just kind of helps that come out in a really honest way.
Michael Offen: Members of the DSO, they come to us and they interact. We play music together.
Michael Offen: I sing songs and I enjoy doing that.
Eric Adelman: Many people with mental health challenges are exceedingly creative. And so we have a number of very talented singers and flutists and violin players and trombonists and clarinetists and piano players and more.
Michael Offen: Woolford Joel. He plays trombone. His dad was first chair in the DSO. It&#8217;s a great thing for him to be able to do. He plays trombone and he plays keyboards.
Michael Offen: For me, it&#8217;s great to have a place to come sing. We&#8217;ve been singing &#8220;Hit the Road, Jack,&#8221; Ray Charles. And it&#8217;s just a lot of fun.
Shannon Orme: So remember the two fingers on the right hand.
Eric Adelman: The DSO musicians spend time working on pieces that our clients are interested in working on and learning more about.
Eric Adelman: And then for some of our other folks who don&#8217;t have a history of playing instruments, there was a music therapist who worked with them on some other skills that were integrated into their treatment plans. The music therapy piece isn&#8217;t to be discounted. For some of the people we serve, just engaging with a group in a group activity and learning some basic music skills or some more advanced music skills is a great way for them to be engaged in the project as well. So many of the people that we serve have been discounted through their whole lives, have had it. So people don&#8217;t believe in them or see the potential that they have. And what&#8217;s been so wonderful about the musicians who are with us is they really see the potential there.
Shannon Orme: They&#8217;re just smiling the whole time when they&#8217;re engaged and they&#8217;re doing something they really love to do. They&#8217;re experiencing something new. And we try to plan the session so that everyone can be involved.
Michael Offen: And we&#8217;re doing a song then we lead sometimes. Like last time we had a lot of fun on Hit the Road, Jack.
Eric Adelman: In addition to us being able to spend some time with their friends and do something different, they&#8217;re able to build some skills and build some confidence. Often when we build and gain confidence in anything that we&#8217;re doing, any of us, that translates to other areas of our lives.
Michael Offen: It&#8217;s improved my confidence. I&#8217;ve performed in front of a group. It improves my confidence at karaoke too.
Eric Adelman: We culminate this experience with a recital, with a performance. An opportunity for the people we serve to show to their friends and family what they&#8217;ve learned and what they&#8217;ve built. We&#8217;re doing a concert at the home of Janet Aronoff, who is one of Kadima&#8217;s founders and somebody who supported this project over the years. And even the people who come to the concert are going to get a wonderful musical experience, and it&#8217;s an opportunity for everybody to see the people we serve as just that. As people.
Shannon Orme: The participants here at Kadima have become much more confident with playing in front of other people.
Michael Offen: At first I was like, I had my eyes practically closed, but I was looking down at the lyrics. But then when I connected with the audience, I felt that was the best thing.
Eric Adelman: I think one of the exciting things about this program is it&#8217;s an opportunity for everybody to learn. I think that the musicians are gaining a broader understanding of the world of mental illness.
Shannon Orme: The people here, at Kadima, are just such interesting people and interesting to talk to. And all have good hearts and willing to learn.
Eric Adelman: With a little luck, these sorts of programs can help reduce stigma and provide more opportunities for people to talk about mental health challenges and seek care.
Eric Adelman: We&#8217;re thrilled these days more people are talking about mental health, are seeking out the care they need and getting the care they need. And it&#8217;s imperative that we help people build up skills so they can live a rich and productive and meaningful life.
Michael Offen: Anybody interested in getting involved with Kadima, who, you know, who has some issues, come on out, get involved. You&#8217;ll thank yourself.
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra partners with Kadima Mental Health Services to offer music therapy 

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From Twitter to Instagram and now TikTok, social media use by teens is widespread. What impact is it having on their mental health? Some studies show that youth who spend more than three hours a day on social media have a higher chance of<a href="https://www.mentalhealth.gov/get-help/immediate-help"> experiencing mental health issues</a> like anxiety, depression or suicidal ideation. Some experts argue, however, that social media use can positively impact people&#8217;s mental health too. 
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One Detroit&#8217;s summer intern Zion Williams, a senior at<a href="https://www.lc-ps.org/schools/hs/lchs-north/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> L&#8217;Anse Creuse High School &#8211; North</a>, went searching for some answers. She talks with three of her friends — Sophia Francis, Marissa Skoney and Breanne Kollmorgen — about their individual social media use and how it makes them feel. Williams also speaks with<a href="https://www.judsoncenter.org/"> Judson Center</a> COO Susan Salhaney about the pros and cons of using these online platforms.
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Plus, Kevin Fischer, the executive director of<a href="https://namimi.org/"> NAMI Michigan</a>, and Dr. Shama Faheem, the chief medical officer at<a href="https://www.dwihn.org/"> Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network</a>, explain how mental health begins to affect teens&#8217; brains as they&#8217;re developing and what parents can do to monitor their children&#8217;s mental health and social media habits. 
Williams produced this story as part of the 2022<a href="https://studentreportinglabs.org/news/srl-announces-2022-gwen-ifill-legacy-fellows-at-local-pbs-stations/"> PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs Gwen Ifill Legacy Fellow</a> program. The One Detroit team helped produce this report. 
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Sophia Francis, L&#8217;Anse Creuse High School, Harrison Twp, MI, 16: A lot on social media we watch other people socializing sometimes and it&#8217;s almost like, okay well what am I doing?
Zion Williams, Student Reporting Labs Intern, One Detroit: Social media seems to be everywhere in our everyday lives. Which brought me to the question, how is it affecting the young people who use it? To find out, I sat down with my friends Sophia, Marissa and Breanne. So my first question for you guys today is what social media platforms do you all use and how often do you use them?
Sophia Francis, L&#8217;Anse Creuse High School, Harrison Twp, MI, 16: I mainly use Instagram would probably be the one I use most and I use TikTok occasionally.
Breanne Kollmorgen, L&#8217;Anse Creuse High School, Harrison Twp, MI, 17: Just Instagram.
Marissa Skoney, L&#8217;Anse Creuse High School &#8211; North, Macomb, MI, 17: I use Instagram and Snapchat, but Instagram is just like an art page.
Zion Williams: Do you feel that social media is detrimental or is it beneficial to your mental health?
Breanne Kollmorgen: I think it&#8217;s 100% detrimental to me. I don&#8217;t like being on my phone yet I still find myself on my phone. I get bored and I turn to social media and I think it just takes up too much of my time when I want to be doing other things, and I don&#8217;t make the conscious decision to do something else when it&#8217;s right in front of me.
Marissa Skoney: For me, it&#8217;s very detrimental. I had to delete TikTok about two years ago because I was getting a lot of panic attacks from just watching the videos. When you get on to certain sites of social media, it&#8217;s a lot of people trauma dumping and that was not good.
Zion Williams: To gain some more perspective, I spoke with Susan Salhaney the COO of the Judson Center, a nonprofit organization that provides mental health services in the metro Detroit area.
Susan Salhaney, Chief Operating Officer, Judson Center: Social media really has some positive benefits overall, right? It keeps us connected with people. It keeps us in tune with news and information. We can meet safely meet new people at times. But there&#8217;s also a downside to it because that becomes our frame of what can be reality or what a teen may think is reality.
Zion Williams: Social media can help people gain awareness of certain topics, but when does that awareness start to sway opinions? Kevin Fischer, executive director of NAMI Michigan, a mental health organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with mental illnesses, says it&#8217;s important to challenge your own opinions.
Kevin Fischer, Executive Director, NAMI Michigan: I ask why? If I give you my opinion. If I say, for example, racism is bad. Racism is a public health crisis. You have every right to say why Kevin? Why do you believe that? What are you basing that opinion on?
Zion Williams: Let&#8217;s learn more about the research-based effects of social media. I spoke with Dr. Shama Faheem, Chief Medical Officer at Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network. What effects does social media have on teenagers&#8217; mental health that they&#8217;re developing and growing into the adults that they want to be?
Dr. Shama Faheem, Chief Medical Officer, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network: Multiple studies. There was a study published in JAMA Psychiatry in 2019 that actually looked at social media usage in thousands of youth and found that youth that were spending more than three hours per day on social media were linked to increased risk of mental health problems.
Particularly internalizing problems like anxiety, depression, negative self-image, suicidal thoughts. And this was especially prominent for teenage girls and its impact on self-esteem. My advice for parents would be to monitor and limiting the child&#8217;s social media use. The more you&#8217;re aware about how your child is interacting on social media, the better you&#8217;ll be able to address any problems that may subsequently arise.
Kevin Fischer: My advice to parents, first of all, is to please listen to your children. If a child is exhibiting behavior that leads you to believe that they might be experiencing a mental health crisis, whether it is depression, you&#8217;ve noticed that they&#8217;ve become more withdrawn. They&#8217;re not spending time with friends. Their quality of their schoolwork is suffering. Listen to your children. And if you believe they need help, get them help. Don&#8217;t let stigma prevent you from getting the help that your child may need.
Sophia Francis: It is incredibly addictive because you just want more. You just want to be happy and see those things and get away from the world within and get away from it too much.
Zion Williams: There&#8217;s a dependency that comes with social media, and Dr. Faheem shares how that can lead to addictive behavior.
Dr. Shama Faheem: Between ages 10 to 12, there are changes in the brain going on that makes social rewards such as compliments, release some neurotransmitter hormones like happy neurotransmitter hormones like oxytocin or dopamine. All of that can make our youth extra sensitive to attention, admiration from others.
Marissa Skoney: I feel like it&#8217;s kind of like chocolate. You eat it and you&#8217;re like, Oh my God, this is so good. And then like five minutes later, you kind of feel like, Oh.
Zion Williams: During our conversation, I asked Marissa, Sophia and Breanne a more difficult question. Will social media ever cease to exist?
Sophia Francis: You know, one app, one social media platform can die out and another one will probably come and draw people in again. So I think that cycle would probably be really difficult to break. With technological advancements.
Marissa Skoney: It probably just has to be a society thing, but is the whole society just going to decide to do that?
Zion Williams: In conclusion, social media is here to stay. So the bigger question is how do we manage social media in a healthy way?
Sophia Francis: You know, we get caught up in watching other people do things, other people&#8217;s lives and not being as focused on our own. So I think it&#8217;s important to do things that make you feel as present as possible.
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At Mariners Inn, <a href="https://www.marinersinn.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a treatment center</a> and shelter for men dealing with homelessness and substance abuse issues, the organization&#8217;s clients find more than help. They find therapy and healing. &#8220;Recovery is real, and it begins at Mariners Inn,&#8221; says Brittany Miles, the clinical treatment director at Mariners Inn, which provides a range of art and creative therapies to help clients express what they&#8217;ve gone through when it&#8217;s difficult to find the words.
The <a href="https://www.detroitperforms.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Detroit Performs: Live From Marygrove&#8221;</a> team visits the treatment center for a look at what it offers to Detroiters in need. Mariners Inn art therapist Karianne Spens-Hanna and Miles share the types of art therapies clients can be introduced to at the shelter and the benefits each medium provides. Plus, The Poets of Mariners Inn Workshop Facilitator Joel Greene and Baba Kevin Collins, an African drummer with Heritage Works, talk about the poetry and music programs they lead at Mariners Inn.
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Lloyd, Client, Mariners Inn:  I was in a dark place, and as I was coming here, I could see a little light.
Baba Kevin Collins, African Drummer, Heritage Works: We know people have problems; they need help. So, this is a place where they can come. We need places like this.
Joel Greene, Workshop Facilitator, The Poets of Mariners Inn:  This place always shows me how common we all are. Regardless of age, race, background, where you grew up, it just shows you the connections we all have as human beings.
Karianne Spens-Hanna, Art Therapist, Mariners Inn: I see the guys that come through here as people who&#8217;ve just been through a lot in life. They&#8217;ve been through an incredible amount of trauma, who haven&#8217;t had the coping skills to deal with it effectively.
Lloyd, Client, Mariners Inn: This is the kind of atmosphere that I wanted to be in because they treated me with dignity and respect.
Karianne Spens-Hanna: Mariners Inn helps men who are dealing with homelessness and substance abuse. This is a treatment center and shelter, so they seek therapy. So, a lot of times words can&#8217;t express what they&#8217;re going through, especially with trauma. So, the art gives them a way to express what they&#8217;ve gone through.
Brittany Miles, Clinical Treatment Director, Mariners Inn: Art therapy is so important because it&#8217;s a way to reconnect with the soul. We believe here at Mariners Inn, that drug use and alcohol use is just a side effect of the larger problem. We believe that the larger problem is disconnection. And so, through art therapy, through that form of expression, so much can come out.
Lloyd:  Well, I had a drug problem; I had an addiction and I was homeless and I seen myself going down. But I had the second chance to get myself together, that&#8217;s why I came here.
Ryan, Client, Mariners Inn:  I&#8217;ve had a problem with addiction to drugs for a while and it&#8217;s caused problems in my life. When I know I want to change, but that change is difficult. But I came to Mariner&#8217;s because I wanted help.
Brittany Miles: Trying something new and exposing them to the arts and art therapies, it&#8217;s a risk and it&#8217;s a way to show them like, hey, certain risks are good and they have an awesome payout.
Karianne Spens-Hanna: Lloyd is very sweet and he&#8217;s used this creative process to really move through what he needed to get through.
Lloyd:  I love art therapy there because I&#8217;ve been making masks, I&#8217;ve been making belts, I&#8217;ve been making me little bracelets. It&#8217;s a lot of things you can do down there. The music she plays and the fragrance that’s been going on, it just soothes you and, you know, it puts you in a different place.
Karianne Spens-Hanna: You can see how they use the art media to express what they&#8217;re going through. So, I can use different art media that help push them in different directions, as far as learning more about themselves. We did a painting all about recovery. So,they write down a word or phrase that was helpful to them. And then we did watercolor over top. That media is very fluid, it kind of helps them to let go of needing to control something.
Ryan: It&#8217;s not just about doing art either. They come together and talk about what&#8217;s going on in their lives too, and how it relates to the art that they&#8217;re doing.
Karianne Spens-Hanna:  So, when Ryan first got here, he was really reserved and he really thrives in the art room. He&#8217;s really good at using the art media to express what he&#8217;s going through emotionally. I always want them to leave here and know this is something that they can do on their own to give them a way to move through their conflict.
Speaker 1:  [poem] Remember who you are don&#8217;t slip back into senility / move forward in the race/ pace yourself / speed and agility / carry yourself with honor and some sort of civility.
Brittany Miles: Everyone has a story, especially our clients, that they want to tell. And so, poetry is an excellent way to get your story out, to establish a voice, to reconnect with your voice.
Speaker 2: You got to speak things into existence. So, when I write, I try to write the most positive thing that I can.
Joel Greene:  We meet in the library, we talk about our days, we just kind of like soak up how we&#8217;re feeling at the moment. You know, this is like my break from my mind and my little stuff that I think is so important. Stuff that gets me down, I come here and kick it with bros, we all have different experiences, it puts mine in perspective, like, you know, just appreciation of being alive. The best poetry is honest. So, this is a place that demands that you be honest about your life so you can come out of here as a better person.
Ryan: [poem] I refuse to let go of my addiction altogether / I need some motivation to my heart / will I tether.
Joel Greene: Guys are just sharing about regret, about love, about life, about authenticity, which I think was the theme today, which I really felt was just telling your own story and not judging someone else&#8217;s.
Speaker 3: [poem] Mind trips in different ways: am I coming or going / I got a whole boost of energy when you tell me you love me.
Joel Greene:  They&#8217;ve spent the time expressing themselves, getting proficient. They learned how to do it, and they did it, and they executed, and they knocked it out; I think that&#8217;s beautiful.
Ryan: The drum circle is really cool, something different. And it teaches you kind of like focus and concentration.
Brittany Miles:  It&#8217;s all about harmony, balance, connection, connecting with a rhythm. Our clients are so diverse, they come from all walks of life, and so, that drum circle is a way to bring everybody together and connect at the pulse.
Baba Kevin Collins: The Drum is also a healing piece. Here, we wanted to really reach into the gentleman&#8217;s soul and give them some positive energy to do this. What is important for them to understand is they are important, no matter what they have been through. So, we try to push from the drumming aspect as positive energy in their lives.
Ryan: You kind of got to step back and realize it&#8217;s kind of a team thing, and it sounds good when everybody&#8217;s playing together and on the same page.
Brittany Miles:  What I see in terms of their growth, is that they really tend to be much more confident in themselves. A lot of times they&#8217;ve just been focused on the negative part of themselves and all the mistakes that they made. And then they realize, through connecting with the arts, that they have this amazing creative side where they&#8217;re able to create this beauty. And so, it&#8217;s like there&#8217;s a light at the end of the tunnel.
Joel Greene: If you don&#8217;t see humanity in someone else, you look at someone else out there begging and we turn our noses, we keep walking. This is a person, this is a human being with a really valid, real experience in life. This place reinforces the fact that these are human beings. These are men just like me and it&#8217;s really important that we all learn, and learn from each other, and learn to love each other in a proper way.
Lloyd: I&#8217;m thinking clearer. I know I have a lot of responsibility. It&#8217;s not an end to this, it&#8217;s something that I have to continue.
Ryan, Client, Mariners Inn: The staff and the other residents here have empowered me to think about what I want in my life and the things that I&#8217;m good at and talented at.
Karianne Spens-Hanna: They have so much hope and I love that. They&#8217;ve taught me a lot about just staying strong and that it&#8217;s possible to completely change your life.
Lloyd: Well, I hope by them seeing me, I can influence and let them know that you can stand up and be somebody.
Brittany Miles: Recovery is real and it begins at Mariners Inn.
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Mariners Inn uses art therapies to help men struggling with homelessness, substance abuse

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This story originally aired on Detroit Public Television&#8217;s <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/homes-invaders-episode-2206/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Lakes Now</a>.
Your house could be making you sick. When you think about environmental issues, you might picture toxic chemicals in the air or the water, but the environment we inhabit most of the time is our homes, and there can be problems there, too.
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Some of these issues are because of the aging housing stock. In Detroit, for example, 80 percent of housing units were built before 1960, meaning older windows, lead paint, and aging heating and cooling systems are becoming big problems. Other issues, like damaged roofs or<a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/bridgedetroit-content/flooding-relief-available-for-some-detroit-home-owners-bridge-detroit/"> flooded basements</a>, can lead to mold and chronic respiratory issues for the people living in these homes.
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Join<a href="https://www.ninaignaczak.com/bio/"> environmental journalist Nina Ignaczak</a> for a look at the environmental justice efforts happening in cities like Detroit. Nina takes us inside the home of Thomasenia Weston, a longtime Detroit resident living with environmental issues in her home on the city&#8217;s southwest side. Plus, gain insights and perspective from a Detroiter who created a community and climate-focused consulting firm, as well as a physician who thinks about housing as a vital piece of public health. 
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Anna Sysling, Producer, Great Lakes Now: Housing stock in Great Lakes cities is aging. And in Detroit, 80% of housing units were built before 1960. So it&#8217;s no surprise that things like old windows, lead paint and aging, and heating and cooling systems are becoming a big problem for residents and the planet.
It&#8217;s something journalist Nina Ignaczak has been thinking about. Last year she co-wrote a piece for Outlier Media about the intersection of Detroit housing and environmental issues.
Nina Ignaczak, Environmental Journalist: What we came to discover through reporting, especially on issues like asthma, is that housing is as much of an environmental health issue and an environmental stressor to Detroiters as much as air pollution and water quality.
Anna Sysling: Some of the most common and dangerous issues in these old homes are lead paint and lead water service lines. Lead can create a variety of neurological and developmental issues, particularly in children. Other issues like damaged roofs or flooded basements can lead to mold and chronic respiratory issues like asthma.
Thomasenia Westin, Resident of Southwest Detroit: We all have asthma because of the basement, has mold and mildew in it.
Anna Sysling: Thomasenia Westin lives on the southwest side of Detroit with her grandchildren. She&#8217;s been in her home for more than 20 years and has experienced a variety of issues that illustrate the many ways our homes and the areas surrounding them can become a threat to our health.
Thomasenia Westin: I don&#8217;t get much sleep. You know, once you&#8217;re woken up, you&#8217;re woken up. It&#8217;s not like you just like go back to sleep. And, you know, the crazy, crazy thing about it is, is the house shakes. My bed shakes, because of the rumbling of the trunks. And when it&#8217;s like a bunch of them, you think you&#8217;re on a rollercoaster ride.
Anna Sysling: Thomasenia says she suffered some hearing loss and a constant ringing in her ears called tinnitus as a result of the constant truck traffic just outside her home.
Thomasenia Westin: It&#8217;s awful and it&#8217;s making my quality of life crap.
Anna Sysling: Another issue with old housing stock is old windows and insufficient insulation, leading to high energy bills and in some cases, dangerous indoor temperatures.
Jalonne White-Newsome, CEO &amp; Founder, Empowering a Green Environment and Economy LLC: Climate change has these, you know, multitude of effects. But extreme heat was the one that really brought me into this space of climate change research, basically, because my grandparents were experiencing it firsthand.
Speaker 1: Jalonne White-Newsome is a native Detroiter and the CEO and founder of Empowering a Green Environment and Economy LLC, a community and climate-focused consulting firm.
Jalonne White-Newsome: My parents have been in a home that unfortunately has suffered flooding five times in the last three years. And it&#8217;s not just a little bit of water, sprinkle of water in the basement, but it&#8217;s been feet. Up to eight or nine feet of water in their basement.
Jalonne White-Newsome: And so when I think about how climate change is impacting me personally and the lives of my family members, it has caused stress. It has caused health issues. It has caused for them to have the need to relocate and really be displaced from their home. It&#8217;s been a financial strain. All of those things.
Anna Sysling: And the data reveals a disturbing trend. Housing-related health problems tend to be most severe in low-income communities of color, meaning that this is an environmental justice issue.
Nina Ignaczak: So we know that the practice of redlining, which concentrated poor people, poor, low income, predominantly people of color into certain areas, created areas of disinvestment. And those areas were disinvested, in terms of maintenance of the homes, in terms of lack of attention to neighborhood amenities like trees.
Nina Ignaczak: They also tended to be places that were easy to put roads through and highways through. And so the people living in these areas have just had to deal with multiple environmental stressors. All of these things just kind of pile up and create a very unhealthy environment.
Jalonne White-Newsome:  You have people living in communities that don&#8217;t have clean air, don&#8217;t have clean water, and they are actually not healthy places to be. And so when you talk about environmental justice, to me it&#8217;s the goal or the aspiration because we all want to live in an environment that is healthy, that&#8217;s safe and clean.
Jalonne White-Newsome: And so environmental justice is that movement of people, that grassroots movement of people, regular citizens, regular folks that are saying, I&#8217;m not going to tolerate this anymore. So we need to change our laws. We need to change our practices. We want to demand an environment that we can be healthy in.
Anna Sysling: Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara is an assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. She&#8217;s a physician and an advocate for health equity.
Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine: We know that when we are in homes that are not protected against those toxins, folks experience either new illnesses or if they have illnesses, those illnesses are worsened. We know and studies show that when you have a healthy neighborhood, first of all, when your house is part of a neighborhood and a community with strong cohesion, where folks are together, working together, that folks are healthier in those places.
Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim: And so that becomes very, very key. When you have a place where a neighborhood or community where you have homes that are old and not maintained and you have folks that are falling ill, that impacts upon the health and wellness of everybody in that area. As a matter of fact.
Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim: So healthy communities, healthy neighborhoods, folks who are in a stable, affordable, well-maintained homes are really key to building a healthy society that can prosper and thrive. It&#8217;s all interconnected.
Anna Sysling: In the summer of 2021, Detroiters were surveyed about how the city should spend $426 million dollars in federal funds that it would receive for community investment under the American Rescue Plan Act. Their top choice Rebuild our neighborhoods.
Later that year, the city created Renew Detroit, an initiative that will use $30 million dollars in federal ARPA funds to pay for critical home repairs. Other cities also plan to use ARPA funds to address problems with aging homes. It&#8217;s a big step, but the cost to correct the problem is huge.
Nina Ignaczak: Michigan Poverty Solutions, which is a think tank out of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor set the cost at bringing every home in the metro area up to a healthy standard at 2 billion. So it would, the cost is as much or more as it would cost to fix our water infrastructure, for example. It&#8217;s a massive, massive cost.
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Great Lakes Now | Hazardous housing: Environmental issues in older homes could lead to health issues

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When you look around Michigan, from the Great Lakes to smaller lakes, streams and rivers, water is everywhere, yet it&#8217;s getting more expensive for households across the state. Between <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/one-detroit/aging-infrastructure-highlighted-by-benton-harbors-continued-water-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aging infrastructure</a>, maintenance and <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/american-black-journal/benton-harbor-water-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replacement costs</a>, many Michigan households are hard-pressed to keep pace with the increasing cost of water. 
The issue is a relatively new one, too. According to a report from the University of Michigan published last year, between 1980 and 2018, the average cost of water across the state of Michigan nearly doubled, when adjusted for inflation. In some cities, the increase was even larger, and low-income households were hit the hardest.
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Ahead of Great Lakes Now&#8217;s special episode, <a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/waters-true-cost/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Water’s True Cost”</a>  at 7:30p ET May 25, One Detroit follows <a href="https://www.circleofblue.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Circle of Blue</a> journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/waltonwater" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brett Walton</a> as he talks with Oakland County Water Resource Commissioner <a href="https://www.oakgov.com/water/about/Pages/bios.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Nash</a> and Megan Wilk, of <a href="https://www.waynemetro.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayne Metro Community Action Agency</a>, about how the cost of water has changed for residents in Southeast Michigan. 
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Anna Sysling, Producer, Great Lakes Now: When you look around the Great Lakes, it seems water is everywhere. But for many households in the region, water is getting more expensive and less affordable. Brett Walton, a reporter for Circle of Blue, has done extensive reporting on water affordability in southeast Michigan.
Brett Walton, Reporter, Circle of Blue: Water affordability wasn&#8217;t a big issue until about two decades ago, and that&#8217;s because for the longest time, water was relatively cheap. But in the last couple of decades, we&#8217;ve seen the price of water going up faster than almost any household good.
Anna Sysling: Over the past four decades, the cost of telephone service, natural gas and electricity have all gone up, and so has the Consumer Price Index. But the rise in water prices outpaces them all.
Brett Walton: Comparatively, it&#8217;s still cheaper than electricity or some other things, but it&#8217;s going up faster than others. And that&#8217;s because the infrastructure we put into the ground fifty hundred years ago is aging out. It&#8217;s gotten to the point where it&#8217;s at the end of its life and needs to be replaced, and that is expensive infrastructure.
Anna Sysling: A report from the University of Michigan published last year found that between 1980 and 2018, average water prices across the state of Michigan nearly doubled when adjusted for inflation. In some cities, the increase was even larger. Low-income households were hit the hardest. Oakland County is one of the wealthiest counties in Michigan, but many county residents struggle to pay their water bills. Jim Nash is Oakland County&#8217;s water resources commissioner.
Jim Nash, Water Resources Commissioner, Oakland County:  Royal Oak Township is probably our poorest community in the county and it actually has some of the highest water bills. Theirs is over $100 a month on average. So there is significant issues in that community.
Anna Sysling: Nash estimates that about 55% of households in Royal Oak Township spend more than 4% of their income on water and sewer services.
Jim Nash: Water is unaffordable to them. Pontiac, it&#8217;s about 35%.
Anna Sysling: Oakland County is working on a state-funded water affordability plan for both Pontiac and Royal Oak Township. They&#8217;re hoping it will become a blueprint that other communities can adapt to their own systems. The plan has two parts one, to assist those who find the average bill to be a financial burden, and the second, to help those in emergency situations like job loss or unexpected medical expenses.
Jim Nash: When it comes to people who have just chronic inability to pay, what we want to do is have kind of a graded billing system where if the very poorest folks half the poverty rate would only pay like 30 or $35 a month. In Pontiac, it&#8217;s about $85 a month or 80. $85 is the average bill. So this would dramatically lower that bill.
Jim Nash: Fifty to 100% of poverty would be maybe $45 a month. And we&#8217;re developing this. So we&#8217;re not fixed yet, but that&#8217;s the kind of thing we&#8217;re doing. We want to have levels of service for folks who have real significant issues paying.
Anna Sysling:  The county&#8217;s plan will also address people whose water bill jumps unexpectedly because of a leak or an undetected plumbing issue.
Jim Nash: The next bill is $1,000 instead of 80. We want to be able to come in, and once they&#8217;ve shown that they fix the leak, then we can maybe give them credit for that water. Right now, we only give them we give it the wholesale cost of the water. So they save some but not a whole bunch. So we&#8217;re trying to set up a system. We can do that.
Jim Nash: And then people who have issues, you know, who have medical or health issues or, you know, car accidents find a way of of local assistance that, you know, the local community can help with, that, you know, of the community foundation, things like that. So we can where we want to work with those folks.
Anna Sysling: Outdated plumbing is a real issue. Something as simple as a dripping hose spigot or a toilet that won&#8217;t stop running can lead to shockingly high bills. Water affordability is an even bigger problem. Just south of Oakland County, in Wayne County, the most populated county in Michigan, which includes the city of Detroit. Megan Wilk is with the Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency.
Megan Wilk, Dept. Director, Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency: A lot of times the residents that come in have just really large bills from a small leak or something existing with their plumbing. Maybe they&#8217;re in an old home and the plumbing is just deteriorating and they don&#8217;t have the money to make the fixes. So the bill just continues to get higher each month. They get late fees tacked on to that.
Anna Sysling: Megan showed us a bill from one of her clients. The total due was staggering close to $15,000.
Megan Wilk: Looking at the bill rate now, the usage is very low. It&#8217;s below average for a single person living in the home. So tells me right now they probably don&#8217;t have any leaks, but at one point there was probably a leak or something big structurally that was going on to make the bill go up this high.
Megan Wilk: This is just something that you&#8217;re not really going to recover from. Like you&#8217;re stuck with this bill, you know, for years and paying your current charges. If you&#8217;re already struggling to pay your current charges for the month and then you have this past due balance of $15,000 that you have to take care of, even enrolling in a payment plan arrangement, it&#8217;s still going to be unaffordable for you.
Brett Walton: Water is unaffordable and people don&#8217;t pay their bill. Missed their payment. The worst-case scenario is that your water gets shut off. And that happens all too frequently in cities. Not everyone shuts water off for nonpayment, but most do. In order to compel residents to pay for service.
Brett Walton: So when your water is unaffordable, you get things like in Detroit, you know, in 2011 or 2020 where there were massive water shutoffs, tens of thousands of people losing access to water and then spiraling into community problems, health problems, social problems, the potential for children to be taken away to CPS. So it is a very real, very severe community crisis.
Anna Sysling: To address health concerns. During the pandemic, the U.S. government created the Low Income Households Water Assistance Program and appropriated $1.1 billion to fund it. Michigan&#8217;s share was $36.2 million dollars, but it&#8217;s estimated that Michigan households owe around $252 million in unpaid water bills. So the federal money is just a drop in the bucket, according to Commissioner Nash. There will be no long-term solution to the problem of water affordability without greater state and federal assistance.
Jim Nash: We want to have local water systems do as much as they can, but the state and federal should be helping us do that because they&#8217;re the ones that should be guaranteeing the rights of Americans. And that&#8217;s how I see that and what we do. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re pushing legislation in Lansing to have them set up a program for helping local communities do this.
Jim Nash: And I think that&#8217;s going to be our long-term answer, is getting this recognized as a human right and the state and federal governments involved in guaranteeing those rights, that&#8217;s the most important thing we can do. We can&#8217;t just put all the burden on the local ratepayers. It just can&#8217;t work in the long term. It&#8217;s not sustainable.
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In a first-ever in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, a draft opinion has been leaked. The draft opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., suggests the court&#8217;s majority favors overturning the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade court decision that granted the federal protection of abortion rights.
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As the investigation into the person responsible for the leak continues, One Detroit Senior Producer connects with University of Michigan Law Professor and former U.S. attorney for Michigan Barbara McQuade to talk about the security breach, how soon the U.S. Supreme court might make a decision on abortion rights, the ramifications we may see with Michigan&#8217;s abortion laws if the decision is overturned and how other laws related to contraceptives, interracial or same-sex marriages and more could be impacted by Roe v. Wade court decision being overturned.
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Bill Kubota: Barbara McQuade, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, former U.S. attorney for Michigan, thanks for talking to One Detroit.
Barbara McQuade, Professor of Law, University of Michigan: Oh, you bet, Bill. Thanks for having me.
Bill Kubota: We&#8217;re talking the latest about abortion, the draft opinion regarding the overturning of Roe v. Wade being leaked. A leak?  Is that a common thing and why would that happen?
Barbara McQuade: Well, first, I think the substance of the opinion is the big news here, that there is this seismic shift apparently coming in reproductive rights in America. But the leak is highly unusual. You know, historically, there have been some verbal leaks of the way the court was going to be making a decision or that somebody wouldn&#8217;t be joining the majority. But this is the first time ever that an entire draft opinion in hardcopy has been leaked to reporters. And I think it is a very significant matter.
It, I think, will tend to undermine the public confidence in the Supreme Court. It tends to show that there is less internal respect than I think we had previously thought. I think there are theories that conservatives wanted to do this to lock in those votes, or liberals wanted to do this to generate outrage and create public pressure to change. But I think that you have to also expand the scope to think about who had access to this. Could it have been someone working from home where a friend or family member or household worker got a hold of it? Could it have been obtained in a hack?
I mean, hostile foreign adversaries love to find wedge issues in America and exploit people in the stealing of emails and other kinds of things. So, I think that we should not make any assumptions about who might have leaked it.
Bill Kubota: How soon do you think we&#8217;ll see an actual ruling?
Barbara McQuade: Typically in these very significant cases, they come out very late in the Supreme Court&#8217;s term, and that&#8217;s because they are exchanging these drafts. This looks to be of the first draft. Some of the language is quite strong and what often happens is, as it gets circulated, either votes change, or some justices want certain language removed or a certain language inserted. And it often gets a little softer. Some of those hard edges get rubbed off. And so, typically the court ends its term in late June. Sometimes it&#8217;s spilled even into July just to give them sufficient time to exchange those drafts and get the final version out the door.
Bill Kubota: Legal folks say the Supreme Court will allow states to make any law they want regarding abortion. In Michigan, it gets a little complicated. We&#8217;ve had an abortion law on the books since 1931, lying dormant since the Roe decision. And then here in Michigan, you&#8217;re looking at what we&#8217;d almost consider an ancient law that might take effect. Talk about that.
Barbara McQuade: Yes. So, there are two types of laws that are already on the books. One is what are called trigger laws, about 13 states have those. And those laws were passed after 1973 that say if Roe is ever overturned, these laws will go in place, and they ban abortion. Michigan has a different category of laws. About a dozen states have these, and they&#8217;re sometimes being referred to now as &#8220;zombie laws&#8221;. That is, they&#8217;re ancient, as you say, but they&#8217;re coming back from the dead. They were on the books at the time Roe was decided in 1973, but they became moot once that decision was made because it said that they were no longer good law. So, they&#8217;ve lingered there on the books all this time.
And if and when this decision becomes final and Roe is overturned, then those laws will revert back. So, Michigan, we have one, it&#8217;s a 1931 law that makes it a felony for a provider, a health care provider to perform an abortion. Now, what&#8217;s interesting about Michigan&#8217;s law is the language of the statute is a little dated. It talks about things like causing a miscarriage, which isn&#8217;t exactly what happens in all abortion cases. And so, it may be that there are problems with that statute. It may be unconstitutionally vague. And in fact, our governor, Governor Whitmer, has already filed a lawsuit saying that, that statute violates the Michigan Constitution under the due process clause and the equal protection clause of the Michigan Constitution.
Bill Kubota: So that&#8217;s before the state Supreme Court, is that the case? So, we have another Supreme Court that&#8217;s going to potentially affect all of this?
Barbara McQuade: Yes, I think one thing that&#8217;s important to understand, is that all of us are protected by the U.S. Constitution, and that is the safety net that protects us from either federal or state laws that might overreach and violate our constitutional rights. But every state also has its own constitution, and that state can create even more protections than the federal constitution or different protections.
And so, in Michigan, we have a very different document. And what&#8217;s interesting about Michigan&#8217;s constitution is it was enacted in 1963, which is after this 1931 statute. And so, it is quite possible that it was contemplating, the people who wrote the statute were certainly not contemplating this constitution when they enacted the bill. There are other state constitutions, including California, that protect to explicitly protect the right to an abortion.
Bill Kubota: There are concerns the Supreme Court could put other rights at risk, rights not explicitly written into the Constitution, but accepted now. Think birth control, interracial marriage, things connected to the Roe decision.
Barbara McQuade: And so, what Roe held is that there is this right of privacy. It&#8217;s not explicitly included in the Constitution, but it is presumed there&#8217;s a 9th Amendment provision that says, &#8220;rights that are not enumerated are reserved for the people&#8221;. And so, Roe was based on that concept. But since that time, the court has also used that same reasoning to find privacy rights that extend to the right to contraceptives, the right to interracial marriage, the right to same sex marriage. And so, if you take away that grounding of that right to privacy, then all of those other things are built on a shaky foundation and might fall as well.
Bill Kubota: Are you concerned that that might actually happen?
Barbara McQuade: I think that it&#8217;s difficult to say. You know, the courts only decide cases that are in front of them. In this draft written by Justice Sam Alito, he does address these things and says these things are different, we&#8217;re not deciding those things today. But that will later be dismissed as people as mere dicta, which is language in the speech, in this case, it&#8217;s not controlling. And so, I&#8217;m sure we will get those challenges. I&#8217;m sure we will find states that want to pass those laws. You know, we have some very aggressive conservative lawmakers in states like Florida and Texas who are looking to make a name for themselves in conservative political circles. And so, you know, enacting a law on those bases will work its way through the courts and I&#8217;m sure they would be challenged, and then we would find out.
Bill Kubota: Well, I suspect we&#8217;ll want to check in with you again as these things move along. Barbara McQuade, Law Professor at the University of Michigan, thanks for talking to One Detroit.
Barbara McQuade: Thank you, Bill.
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Could Roe v. Wade Be Overturned This Year? The Ramifications We May See in Michigan

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Photo Caption Malik Yakini, executive director and co-founder of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network and Develop Detroit President Sonya Mays take part in a groundbreaking for the Detroit People’s Food Co-op, part of the $21.3 million Detroit Food Commons project in the city’s North End. | Photo provided by Khary Frazier
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After more than a decade of visioning and organizing, Black leaders and community members have broken ground on a cooperatively owned full-service grocery store in the city’s North End.
The Detroit People’s Food Co-op will be part of the larger Detroit Food Commons, a Black-led community development complex on Woodward Avenue expected to include an incubator kitchen for culinary artists and food entrepreneurs, a West African and Detroit-centric healthy foods cafe and will have space for community meetings and events, lectures, films, and performances.
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The project, spearheaded by the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1A2z_F6ReceyqIr9QRh69ACl5nJD7PQ6LLw7dF5yOTwc/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Black Community Food Security Network</a>, seeks to expand access to healthy foods for a predominantly Black and low-income community where residents also face concerns of <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/resident-led-investment-set-to-transform-detroits-north-end/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gentrification</a> and displacement.
Despite a nearly 80% Black population, Detroit lacks Black-owned grocery stores. While the <a href="https://detroitpeoplesfoodcoop.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit People’s Food Co-op</a> will be open to the public and anyone of any race can be involved, it is a primarily Black-led initiative.
Malik Yakini, the network’s executive director and co-founder, grounded the group’s Saturday groundbreaking in the context of white supremacy and inequity.
“In the face of these kinds of oppressive systems, cooperative economics is the way that people who are marginalized by the larger society galvanize our collective wealth and rebuild our communities,” said Yakini, of the coalition working to build an equitable food system in Detroit.
Construction on the $21.3 million Detroit Food Commons will take a little over a year, with an anticipated completion date of June 2023.
“The Detroit Food Commons and the Detroit People’s Food Co-op is most significant when it is linked to ending the extraction of wealth, and the suppression of the power of Black communities throughout the United States,” he added. “It pushes back gently – it doesn’t destroy capitalism.”
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Even within a co-op, he said, there’s still capitalism, but at least at the retail level community members can own the store they’re purchasing from, and the store will be connected with local growers in Detroit.
“We’re trying to kind of create a closed-loop system … keeping the money from those sales circulating within our community,” he said.
A 2012 study by the Fair Food Network found that Detroiters spend an average of <a href="https://fairfoodnetwork.org/from-the-field/grocery-stores-new-opportunities-to-promote-fair-food-in-the-inner-city/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$200 million</a> annually on groceries in the suburbs, due to a lack of grocery stores in the city, generally, and a lack of quality, nutritious and culturally appropriate foods offered at Detroit grocers.
The grocery store in the North End will be collectively owned and governed by its members who pay a one-time fee of $200. In exchange, members receive a vote in board elections, share of future profits, and they can run to be a board member themselves.
Yakini announced Saturday that the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network will be changing its name to the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network. Compared to “food security” the phrase “food sovereignty” highlights ownership over the social and political processes of our food systems.
The project, he added, is significant because it’s led by “a grassroots Black food sovereignty network,” including a nonprofit development company led by a Black woman, two Black architectural firms, a Black construction company and a Black general contractor.
Sonya Mays, president and chief executive officer of Develop Detroit, the organization partnering with the network to create the space, told BridgeDetroit that “We do see cooperative and collective ownership as an important strategy in neighborhoods like this to keep homes affordable, to keep the character of the community more intact.”
But most people aren’t familiar with cooperative ownership, she noted, and Mays hopes that the DPFC will be a good, clear example of how these kinds of <a href="https://www.bridgedetroit.com/the-high-cost-of-affordable-housing-in-detroit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">developments</a> can work.
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BridgeDetroit | People’s Food Co-op Rewrites Economics in Detroit Grocery Battle

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Two years after the <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/?s=covid-19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID-19 pandemic</a> touched down in Michigan in March 2020, where does the state stand in the fight against COVID-19? As the pandemic has eased its hold on the state&#8217;s public health and economy, so too have the state&#8217;s restrictions around mask mandates, social distancing, and other guidelines. Still, some Michiganders have questions about where we go from here.
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One Detroit&#8217;s<a href="https://twitter.com/BKubota56"> Bill Kubota</a> sits down with Michigan&#8217;s top medical executive,<a href="https://twitter.com/nnbagdasarian"> Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian</a>, to learn about the recommendations and strategies still in place in the state to fight against COVID-19. Plus, Dr. Bagdasarian clears up questions about vaccinations, booster shots and the recently lifted mask mandate.
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Bill Kubota: Let&#8217;s talk infection rates, vaccinations, and hospitalizations. What are the numbers? Where are things now? Where are they going?
Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Chief Medical Executive, State of Michigan: Well, I can tell you that in general, we are in a low. We&#8217;re in a low point here with cases and hospitalizations. And what that means is, when we think about the pandemic, we&#8217;re really thinking about this in a cycle. We&#8217;re thinking about different approaches depending on where things are overall in the state. Right now, we are in a recovery phase. And what that means is that we just got over this big surge in the winter. We just got over our Delta and Omicron surges back-to-back. We now are in a place where transmission is low, and we do have some protection based both upon vaccination as well as some prior immunity from that very recent Omicron surge.
So, we&#8217;re in a relatively good spot at the moment. However, when we think about where we&#8217;re heading in the pandemic, we do expect to see future surges of cases. We do expect cases and hospitalizations even to go up at times in the future. And when we think ahead, what does that look like? That could be the emergence of a new variant. It could be schools reopening in the fall; we have seen surges of cases around school reopening in the past. It could be around colder weather in the winter.
So, we&#8217;re looking at this as really being a phased approach to the pandemic. We&#8217;re in recovery right now, but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean it is all smooth sailing. Because as you know, we have the BA.2 subvariant that we are closely monitoring and it&#8217;s causing increased cases in other parts of the world and in other parts of the country. And we do expect to see a rise in our cases here in Michigan.
Bill Kubota: But on top of that, we&#8217;re also looking at that push for that second booster. How does that fit into all of this?
Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian: Well, again, vaccines are one of the most important tools that we have. We really have to use all of these tools in a very holistic approach and use them together. So, you are safest, if you are using our, what we call non-pharmaceutical interventions, meaning you avoiding very large, very crowded gatherings. You&#8217;re doing what you can to prevent getting exposed to the disease as much as you can. And then, also you are making sure you&#8217;re vaccinated and boosted, so up to date with vaccinations.
That you&#8217;ve spoken to your doctor, that you have a plan for whether or not you&#8217;d be eligible for one of these COVID therapeutics and then making sure that you&#8217;ve got some of these tools at home. So, making sure that you&#8217;ve got masks and hand sanitizer on hand for future surges, making sure that you&#8217;ve got over-the-counter tests on hand so that you can use those over-the-counter tests if you become symptomatic if you&#8217;ve been exposed to someone with COVID or before attending a large gathering. So, making sure that people have all of these tools at their disposal is really one of the keys to moving forward.
Bill Kubota: You know, a federal judge just recently, very recently kind of lifted this mask mandate on airplanes and transportation. What about that? What do you think? Will you still be wearing your mask on a plane now?
Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian: You know, we have been saying for some time now that we&#8217;re in a phase of the pandemic where making these sorts of decisions are really up to individuals. So, we now have access to well-fitting high-quality masks that can protect the wearer. In the beginning, when we were talking about cloth masks and masks that were not well-fitting, really, everyone had to wear a mask in order to prevent spread from happening. But now, if you are wearing a really high-quality well-fitting, multilayered mask, you can provide protection to yourself. And so, people need to make decisions that work for them.
So, we still recommend wearing a mask if you are unwell, if you&#8217;ve tested positive, or if you are quarantining, for example. So, there are still sometimes we would recommend masking. If you&#8217;re in a high-risk congregate setting, so if you&#8217;re in a health care setting or a long-term care facility, that&#8217;s another time to mask up. And then, we also want people to comply with local and federal rules. So, if there are any laws, mandates, rules around masking in the place you&#8217;re going to, it&#8217;s important to comply with those rules. But overall, people can now make decisions that work for them. And there are lots of different reasons why people may want to continue wearing a mask.
So, number one, you may have young children who aren&#8217;t eligible for the vaccine yet, you may be immunocompromised yourself, someone in your family may be immunocompromised, you may be wearing a mask for them. And then, there&#8217;s also just wearing a mask to be considerate to others. You don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s around you. You don&#8217;t know if there are people who are very vulnerable, who are sitting next to you. And so, you may wear a mask for them and for their comfort. And so, when you ask if I will continue wearing a mask, I do generally wear masks when I&#8217;m in public, when I&#8217;m in especially indoor public settings. But again, it&#8217;s a personal decision that I make with my family and do what&#8217;s best for us, and people have to make those decisions for themselves as well.
Bill Kubota: Yeah. You mentioned your family and children, how are schools doing and dealing with all of this these days?
Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian: I think it has been a very hard 2 years for schools. I think schools have been put at the front line of this pandemic. And really, they want to get back to the business of educating our kids, which is their primary goal. But they also need to be able to stay open and make sure that kids are healthy enough to be able to stay in school. And that does mean preventing outbreaks. And when I talk about those tools and I mentioned that vaccines are one of the most important tools that we have, we see that vaccines have not been utilized to the degree we would want them to be in our younger age groups.
So, when we look at overall vaccination, we&#8217;re at above 60% for vaccine uptake across the state. But when we look at our younger age groups, when we look at our pediatric population, the 5 to 11 population, that&#8217;s lower, that&#8217;s at about 28% statewide. And then, when we look at certain communities, that rate, especially in children, drops even lower. And when we look at communities of color, again, we&#8217;re seeing lower vaccine uptake. And that matters because we are expecting future surges of cases. And we need to make sure that everyone and all communities across the state are protected. So, if we don&#8217;t have vaccine uptake in that younger age groups, we could be seeing school closures again in the fall, school closures into next year and even beyond.
We could be seeing outbreaks in schools. And then, of course, we know that children who are exposed and transmitting in school settings, for example, can bring those infections back to their family members and to vulnerable, grandparents or younger siblings. So, we really need to make sure that vaccine rates are up across the board because if we are not all protected, if we have vulnerable individuals, vulnerable communities among us, then as a state, we&#8217;re not going to be able to move out of this pandemic.
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Mask Mandates, Vaccines, Testing: Where Does Michigan Stand Against the Pandemic Two Years Later?

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As the United States and Michigan continue to face some of the highest COVID-19 with the Omicron variant since the start of the pandemic, the long-term effects of the virus for many who have already contracted it is still relatively unknown. More than two years into the pandemic, millions of people — COVID Long-Haulers — continue to deal with lingering symptoms months after first contracting the virus. Medical research on the topic is ongoing, but what have they discovered so far and what’s still to learn?
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Children certainly have gone through a lot since the COVID-19 pandemic started; all the up and downs, schools switching from open to closed, sometimes on a whim. <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Black Journal</a> Host Stephen Henderson sits down with <a href="https://www.thechildrenscenter.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Children’s Center</a> CEO &amp; President Debora Matthews and Chief Clinical Officer Carlynn Nichols to learn just how this pandemic has impacted children and their families, and how the impacts felt by children and adults are more different than we think.
Matthews and Nichols share how mental health services have fluctuated throughout the pandemic, the effects that school closures have on a child’s social, emotional and academic skills, how heightened screen time can drain a child’s mental battery over time, and the resources the Children’s Center offers to families to help.
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2/03/22: One Detroit – COVID-19’s Impact on Communities

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COVID Long-Haulers: The People Still Suffering from the Virus

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In a nearby Detroit kitchen, Detroit Filipino Supper Club Co-founder <a href="https://www.foodashealing.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shane Bernardo</a> cooks up connections to Filipino culture, history, and community by sharing traditional Filipino recipes that boil over with ancestral wisdom and the power to heal. It&#8217;s a group that formed after Bernardo and another friend began reminiscing about the meals they loved to eat as kids.
One Detroit catches up with Bernardo as he&#8217;s preparing a supper club meal to talk about the importance of building spaces for these types of gatherings culturally, socially and politically. Plus, he shares how personal ties to his ancestors help him create new dishes and show the variety of Filipino culture through food.
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Shane Bernardo, Community Organizer: Today I&#8217;m cooking the meal in preparation for our supper club. It&#8217;s called the Detroit Filipino Supper Club. And it&#8217;s a way for those of us in the diaspora to help celebrate our culture and come together around food. These are spaces that are important for me to build socially, but also culturally and politically, because food is a really great way for bringing people together.
Speaker 2: Oh! Whoa! Oh!
Shane Bernardo: So the way it started is a mutual friend introduced me and Ali together, and we were just reminiscing about all the different foods that we used to enjoy when we were growing up and how much we miss that. And we miss the camaraderie and the social aspects of coming in around food, especially around the holidays.
Shane Bernardo: The Philippines archipelago is made up of 71 over 7100 different islands, and Luzon is the north where my people are from. The Visayas is the central region and Mindanao is the southern region. To look at our food is just one of the many ways to show that how nuanced and how varied our culture really is.
Shane Bernardo: My grandmother transitioned to Ancestor Hood in 2016, so fairly recently. That hit me pretty hard because when my parents were working, my grandmother was one of my main caregivers. But then growing up as an adult and having to deal with grief of losing my father and my grandmother, I can now hear the grief that I was feeling from that sense of loss with some of what I refer to as ancestral wisdom and ancestral creativity within the food that I&#8217;m making.
It&#8217;s healing to be able to reconnect with our land, kind of in an indirect way, by preparing and celebrating some of these foods and dishes. If I were to ask you what your favorite food was, I&#8217;m sure you can name a whole list of things. If I were to ask you, is there a particular dish or food that you look for in and around your family gathering? You could probably come up with another list.
And then if I were to ask you, how would you feel if you could never enjoy those dishes or foods ever again? You could probably come up with another list of emotions. The reason why I&#8217;m really happy to do this piece is because it gives folks an alternative for seeing our community. A lot of times Filipino Americans are homogenized and our identities are really flattened.
Speaker 3: And we thank everybody for being here as well and for creating a community for us.
Shane Bernardo: So the work that I do within myself and within the Filipino-American community here in Detroit is indicative of the kind of work that needs to happen for anyone that&#8217;s been displaced off their ancestral land and has found it particularly harder and more difficult to celebrate their own traditions.
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Portrait of a cute african american boy in mask at home – contagion of the Novel Coronavirus 2019- ncov – virus incubation isolation

Children certainly have gone through a lot since the COVID-19 pandemic started; all the up and downs, schools switching from open to closed, sometimes on a whim. <a href="https://wordpress.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Black Journal</a> Host Stephen Henderson sits down with <a href="https://www.thechildrenscenter.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Children’s Center</a> CEO &amp; President Debora Matthews and Chief Clinical Officer Carlynn Nichols to learn just how this pandemic has impacted children and their families, and how the impacts felt by children and adults are more different than we think.
Matthews and Nichols share how mental health services have fluctuated throughout the pandemic, the effects that school closures have on a child’s social, emotional and academic skills, how heightened screen time can drain a child’s mental battery over time, and the resources the Children’s Center offers to families to help.
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Stephen Henderson, ABJ  It’s especially important to talk about our children and not just the effect of the pandemic itself, the public health threat of the pandemic itself, but the mental health threat that poses especially kids who deal with disruption in a really different way than we do as adults. So, Debora, I’m going to start with you, and just give us a sense of one year in what you’re seeing and what you’re hearing from the children in our city.
Debora Matthews, President &amp; CEO, The Children’s Center  Well, it’s a long story and somewhat challenging over this last year. And the children’s center has been serving children and families now since 1929. A long haul in pretty much our same community that we’re in now for the most part, and the primary services we provide is behavioral health and child welfare, so foster care and adoptions. And so when the pandemic began, we had to very, very quickly pivot, didn’t have but days really to come up with a solution to be able to continue serving our clients, because typically there used to come into our location and getting their therapy done there, participating in everything going on on our campus. And all of a sudden now everything’s shut down and they can’t come to their appointments. So we had to shift very quickly to a telehealth version of providing those services via either video, preferred video or audio talking to them on the phone. And of course, at that time, everybody was afraid and panicky. So initially we saw the parents connecting with us to be just a lot lower.
Fewer folks wanted to talk even via telehealth, because they were dealing with the real issue of what’s going on now in the household with the kids being stuck at home, parents having to work from home, managing all of that has been a great challenge. They had to deal with illnesses that came about as a result of people in their family or themselves. So it’s been extremely challenging, and obviously we weren’t able to reach all of the families initially, but now it’s kind of built back up and it’s getting better. So it’s been a really tough time for the kids.
Stephen Henderson, ABJ  And we had to sort of point to a couple of indicators, the effect this has had on kids and how that’s different from adults, what would those be?
Debora Matthews, President &amp; CEO, The Children’s Center  Yeah, I’ll let Carlynn focus in on the difference for children. But what I can say overall, is we see we were seeing 4,500 behavioral health clients in a given year, and for that to go now, way down to less than 3,000 initially to annualize that, and that means we’re missing a lot of kids. So our first concern is what’s happening to those kids who are isolated at home; they’re not in schools, so school principals and teachers didn’t have eyes on them. So we were concerned were they safe, were they getting enough food. So in general, it really did cause concern for us that children and families weren’t getting what they needed.
Carlynn Nichols, Chief Clinical Officer, The Children’s Center  Yes, I think what we’re seeing is a direct result of what Debora is speaking to. Children live in families, and if families are stressed, children are a product of that stress. So, what COVID has caused is challenges with employment, and health care, and food. And so, you have families who have those stressors, so children experience those stressors, too. And we have children who are in the stages of their life where social interaction with peers is important. How we learn our social skills is by engaging in play, we engage in exercises and activities, we go to a school building and we engage with our classmates, so that is no longer taking place.
We live in a world where we’ve been told less screen time, so now we have children with more screen time. So, they are on the screen and they, just the capacity to interact with their peers, interact with their with their teacher to get the extra help is a problem. How do you learn when you have a parent who has to work? And so there’s a real concern that we have a generation of children who are missing out on this year of education. And these are the same children who some of them go to school and they get two square meals a day in the school, and so we also are concerned about them going hungry. And so the stressors of being at home and, the fact that they have a lack of interaction with peers, with with their teachers, and now we are also competing for screen time too, Debora mentioned that that telehealth, so if this is a child that needs a therapeutic appointment, how do they do screen time at school and also do screen time with their therapist?
So we are really concerned that these are children who parents are having to choose. You know, they’re having to choose what their children get, and some parents have chosen, well, I can’t use my data that I need for my work for you to have this extra activity therapy or school. So there’s some real challenges in our community.
Stephen Henderson, ABJ  Yeah, Debora, we are just starting to get back some kind of normalcy, with the vaccine. But I imagine that there are things that may not be able to go back.
Debora Matthews, President &amp; CEO, The Children’s Center  Well, we are certainly hoping that our campus and the activity of having families come back to campus and engage in their therapy, do all of our extra enrichment activities, we’re hoping that can resume. There are some of our clinicians and other workers at the organization that were primarily in the community anyways, in that they would work in a colocation such as Children’s Hospital, they’d work in schools, they go to homes to see the clients. So those have been able to resume a lot quicker with respect to going to homes and Children’s Hospital.
Of course, schools are not all open now, and we’re primarily working in Wayne County. So once those schools begin to open, we very well expect that we’ll have our clinicians back in those schools and taking all of the necessary precautions. And then with our foster families, we’ve had to continue that engagement. Once the state opened back up, we had to have parent visits with birth parents, and siblings, and going to look after the safety of the child that’s in a foster home, so we’ve had to continue all of that. And we expect that once we bring all of our clinicians back to our campus, that we’ll be able to re-engage with these kids and families, and have them return to the campus as well.
Stephen Henderson, ABJ  And Carlynn, there, there’s damage that was done here to children and their sense of normalcy. This form of normalcy probably isn’t quite enough, there’s going to be a need for a real focus on reacclimating them.
Carlynn Nichols, Chief Clinical Officer, The Children’s Center   We would certainly call this experience traumatic for our community, right?  And our children, we can’t forget the impact on our children. So we have families who have lost family members, families who have lost homes, families who have gone hungry, and again, our children have been impacted directly by this.
So we really do believe that we need to be prepared to address the impact all these things are having on our children, to be ready to provide support and services to the families that we serve, whether it’s connecting them with services in the community, and providing some therapeutic intervention for children who have experienced some grief and loss. You know, they have, we can’t underestimate the impact of something as simple as going to school has; there has been a loss. We have a whole group of children who, even young people, who did not graduate high school, think of the loss that they had. Think of all of the things that we just are used to having in a regular routine. Children spend a great most of their time in school.
When you think of how much time and what they gain in that interaction, that they have lost friends and opportunities to learn and grow. And so we stand at the ready, really we do, to provide the much needed assessment and services for those children, whether it is again coming to the space called the Children’s Center or going to homes, and working through the grief and working through the fear because they’re still, we’re anxious.
We are all anxious in our community about the impact, and the future, and what it means, and what that new normal may look like. And so talking through that and creating plans, and really thinking about how what does that new normal look like for each of us individually, for us as a family, for a child going to school, becomes a very important conversation.
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How COVID’s Disruptions Have Impacted Children’s Mental Health 

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<h3>Monday, June 8 at 3pm ET</h3>
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored deep, persistent societal inequities. This webinar features a wide-ranging set of experts discuss the disparate effects COVID-19 has on communities of color, how to address these significant, persistent challenges, and what the All of Us Research Program is doing to engage a diverse community of participants across the Nation. A partnership with University of Michigan School of Public Health and ACCESS Community Health and Research Center.
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Speakers:
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<li>Madiha Tariq, Deputy Director, ACCESS</li>
<li>Dr. Mouhanad Hammami, MD, MHSA, Senior Vice President of Safety Net Transformation, Community Benefit, Health and Well-Being, Trinity Health</li>
<li>Ronnie Tepp, Principal, HCM Strategists</li>
<li>Beth Niblock, Chief Information Officer, Chief Homeland Security &amp; Emergency Management, City of Detroit</li>
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Hydrate Detroit’s Demeeko Williams

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Christy, Nolan and Stephen talk about the many changes brought on by COVID-19 and the impact on Detroit, considered a hotspot for the virus.
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COVID-19 Roundtable

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<li>ROUNDTABLE: Christy, Nolan and Stephen talk about the many changes brought on by COVID-19 and the impact on Detroit, considered a hotspot for the virus.</li>
<li>DETROIT SCHOOLS: Christy talks with Detroit Public Schools Community District Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti about how his district is working to make sure students don&#8217;t fall behind while schools are shut down for the remainder of the school year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.</li>
<li>WATER SHUTOFFS: One Detroit&#8217;s Bill Kubota talks with Hydrate Detroit&#8217;s Demeeko Williams about water shutoffs and Governor Gretchen Whitmer&#8217;s order to have water turned on for every state resident during the coronavirus outbreak.</li>
<li>3-D FACE SHIELDS: Christy talks with a local nurse who is making protective face shields for healthcare workers using a 3-D printer.</li>
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4/3/20: One Detroit – Roundtable / Detroit Schools /  Water Shutoffs / 3-D Face Shields

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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI 12th District) talks with One Detroit contributor and Detroit News Editorial Page Editor, Nolan Finley, about what her constituents are telling her in the midst of the pandemic, the importance of a non-partisan approach to combat the virus, the Democratic convention being moved to August instead of July, and what both Republicans and Democrats are realizing when it comes to infrastructure and the importance of keeping supply chains domestic.
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One Detroit&#8217;s Christy McDonald talks with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer about the current Michigan COVID-19 crisis. Governor Whitmer talks from her library about how the government is practicing social distancing, how the TCF center in downtown Detroit is being turned into a hospital, changes in strategy from healthcare providers and more.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer on the current Michigan COVID-19 crisis

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One Detroit&#8217;s Christy McDonald interviews Nikolai Vitti, Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools, about what it has been like to lead the district during the COVID-19 crisis and what they are doing to make sure every child and family has what they need to get through this.
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Nikolai Vitti, Superintendent of Detroit Public Schools Community District

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Forgotten Harvest is a food rescue organization that redistributes surplus food to greater tri-county charities to provide families in need with nutritious meals. CEO Kirk Mayes talked with One Detroit’s Christy McDonald to discuss how COVID-19 has forced the organization to adjust operational procedures, and what the community can do to help. 
For more information, visit: <a href="https://www.forgottenharvest.org/">https://www.forgottenharvest.org/</a>
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Kirk Mayes, CEO of Forgotten Harvest

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One Detroit Managing Editor, Christy McDonald, spoke with Dr. Howard Markel, Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, and author of &#8220;When Germs Travel&#8221; about the historical context of pandemics, and where COVID-19 fits in that dialogue. Dr. Markel talks about what we can compare COVID-19 to, the sweet spot of reaction, and how the pandemic could change how we react globally.
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Dr. Howard Markel on the historical context of pandemics

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
Stephen talks with marketing consultant Mark S. Lee about how small businesses can stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. Plus, he has a frank conversation with Pastor Barry Randolph of Detroit&#8217;s Church of the Messiah on how the outbreak is impacting residents in city neighborhoods. And, Stephen remembers a colleague and friend, Marlowe Stoudamire.
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<h3>WATCH NOW:</h3>
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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3/29/20: American Black Journal – Small Business / Detroit neighborhoods / Remembering Marlowe Stoudamire

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<h2> Tonight on One Detroit:</h2>
<ul>
<li>RESTAURANTS: Christy talks with Ron Bartell, owner of <a href="http://www.kuzzoschickenandwaffles.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kuzzo&#8217;s Chicken &amp; Waffles</a> on Livernois Avenue, about how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting his business and how he is adapting to being a carryout and delivery only restaurant.</li>
<li>ASIAN AMERICANS:  Roland Hwang and Richard Mui talk about how <a href="https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/3/25/21190655/trump-coronavirus-racist-asian-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Asian Americans</a> across the country have become targets of discrimination and attacks, blaming them for the spread of the coronavirus.</li>
<li>FAMILIES COPING: Clinical psychologist Dr. Erin Hunter gives advice on how parents can ease <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/3/20/21186739/coronavirus-kids-parents-covid-19-pandemic-parenting" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">anxiety and fears in their children</a> during the pandemic, along with how to deal with the new normal of kids being at home.</li>
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<h2>Watch Now:</h2>
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<h2><a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/category/one-detroit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">View Past Episodes &gt;</a></h2>
Watch One Detroit every Thursday at 7:30pm ET on Detroit Public TV. 
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3/26/20: One Detroit – Restaurants / Asian Americans / Families Coping

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Instances of hate crimes and anti-Asian sentiment are on the rise in the U.S., as repercussions of the coronavirus outbreak escalate. One Detroit’s Christy McDonald speaks with Roland Hwang, attorney and lecturer at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and Richard Mui, Board Chair of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans &#8211; Michigan Vote, to find out more about the ways this situation is manifesting and measures that are being taken.
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COVID-19 Pandemic & Xenophobia

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
We&#8217;ll see how the River Rouge school district is providing students with food and learning materials while schools are shut down in wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Stephen holds a frank roundtable on the impact of Covid-19 and the response so far. Plus, the panel weighs in on how the November presidential election is shaping up.
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<h3>WATCH NOW:</h3>
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<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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3/22/20: American Black Journal – River Rouge School District / Roundtable

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Governor Whitmer talks with One Detroit&#8217;s Christy McDonald about COVID-19. Topics include coordinating state effort to get more masks, gowns, ventilators &amp; equipment for hospitals, the decisions about restrictions of movement, and her message to Michiganders in this time of uncertainty.
Watch One Detroit tonight at 7:30 for this interview and more.

Gov. Whitmer talks with Christy McDonald on the Coronavirus crisis

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<h2> Tonight on One Detroit:</h2>
<ul>
<li>GOVERNOR WHITMER​: Governor Whitmer talks with Christy McDonald about COVID-19. Topics include the state effort to provide medical personnel with masks and other necessary supplies, when schools might be back in session and what we can all do as citizens to stop community spread of the disease and help other in this time of crisis. </li>
<li>CORONAVIRUS &amp; EDUCATION: Christy talks with Detroit Public TV&#8217;s manager of early education initiatives, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TaraDetroitPublicTV56/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tara Hardy</a>, about the ways teachers, parents, and caregivers can help students keep up with learning while schools are shutdown during the coronavirus outbreak</li>
<li>MARIE WOO: A special One Detroit report on this year&#8217;s Kresge Eminent Artist, 91-year-old ceramicist <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2020/01/30/detroit-new-kresge-eminent-artist-lifetime-achievement-marie-woo-clay-pottery/4599675002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marie Woo</a></li>
<li>CITY OF DETROIT CFO: Nolan Finley sits down with City of Detroit CFO Dave Massaron to discuss the controversy over <a href="https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2020/02/28/crowd-protesting-overtaxation-temporarily-shuts-down-detroits-coleman-a-young-building/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">inflated property taxes</a> for city homeowners and to get an update on the state of the city&#8217;s finances.
<ul>
<li>Watch Nolan&#8217;s online exclusive extended interview with City of Detroit CFO Dave Massaron below.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
Featured Image: Empty Classroom in Detroit, Photo by Motown31 via wikimedia.org Public Domain
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Watch One Detroit every Thursday at 7:30pm ET on Detroit Public TV. 
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3/19/20: One Detroit:  Coronavirus & Education / Dave Massaron / Governor Whitmer / Marie Woo

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“I can&#8217;t believe how much coronavirus has changed America in a week.” When One Detroit’s Christy McDonald read this article from the Detroit Free Press’s Nancy Kaffer, it resonated with her immediately. So much, that she had to give Nancy a call to talk about it in more detail – and share her own stories.
The two spoke today in a conversation on how virtually every aspect of life has been affected by the spread of COVID-19 #coronavirus in Michigan, from the major changes in day-to-day life, to established facts about the virus, and lingering questions, as well as the political situation locally and nationally.
Read Nancy Kaffer&#8217;s article from the Detroit Free Press, &#8220;<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2020/03/18/coronavirus-michigan-outbreak-covid/5074236002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I can&#8217;t believe how much coronavirus has changed America in a week</a>.&#8221;
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Nancy Kaffer talks with Christy McDonald on how life has changed with COVID-19

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Christy, Nolan and Stephen talk about the potential impact of the <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Coronavirus</a> here in <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michigan</a> and across the country. Plus they an in-depth look at the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/10/takeaways-democratic-primaries-march-10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Michigan Primary results</a> and the presidential race that’s shaping up for November.
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Headlines and The Michigan Primary: An in-depth look

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
Veteran actress <a href="https://cchpounder.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CCH Pounder</a> sits down with reporter Will Glover to talk about her private art collection titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.thewright.org/exhibitions/queen-collection-cch-pounder" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Queen</a>,&#8221; which is on display at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. The exhbition focuses on Black womanhood, beauty and power. Plus, we&#8217;ll talk about the number one health risk for <a href="https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/special/feel-something-say-something-heres-why-womens-cardiac-disease-is-so-dangerous" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">African-American women: Heart Disease</a>.
Featured Image: Actress CCH Pounder and Neil A. Barclay, CEO of  The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History viewing the exhibit Queen: From the Collection of CCH Pounder
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Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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3/1/20: American Black Journal – CCH Pounder / Heart Disease in African-American women

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A snapshot of the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act

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<h2> Tonight on One Detroit:</h2>
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<li>DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES IN DETROIT:  Stephen and Nolan are joined by two in-studio roundtable guests: <a href="https://bog.wayne.edu/members/kim-trent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kim Trent</a> of the Wayne State University Board of Governors and Compass Strategies and Howard Edelson of <a href="http://edelsongroup.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Edelson Group</a>.  They discuss the Democratic Presidential Debates in Detroit &#8212; the winners and losers, the topics, and the <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/07/30/detroiters-democratic-debate/1830931001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impact on Detroit</a> and Michigan.</li>
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Featured Image: View from the stage of the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ddohler/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DDohler</a> via flickr.com cc 2.0 
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June 5, 2019 | Bill Kubota | One Detroit
Hydroponic farms grow plants indoors without soil.
When those operations grow the plants on shelves under LED lights to take the sun’s place &#8211; that’s vertical farming.
In Detroit’s eastside Islandview neighborhood, a hydroponic vertical farm called <a href="https://planteddetroit.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">PlanTed</a> now operates out of an nondescript, once vacant 20,000 square foot industrial warehouse.
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<figure id="attachment_4589" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-4589" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png" alt="" width="300" height="169" class="size-medium wp-image-4589" srcset="https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png 1836w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png 300w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png 1024w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png 768w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/02-PlanTeds-manager-and-partner-Kimberly-Buffington-explains-the-operation-1.png 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-4589" class="wp-caption-text">PlanTed&#8217;s manager and partner Kimberly Buffington explains the operation</figcaption></figure>
 Manager Kimberly Buffington sees her company at the ground floor of a whole new industry.
&#8220;I relate it very much to the same time when Henry Ford was bringing the first Fords off the assembly line,&#8221; Buffington said, &#8220;we’re sort of at that point.&#8221;
The specialty crops include herbs, baby greens, and microgreens&#8211;a lot of them in demand by some of the high-end restaurants.
PlanTed also sells them at <a href="https://www.easternmarket.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Eastern Market</a>.
The viability of hydroponic farming has improved in recent years with more demand for local produce and better LED lighting technology created for indoor marijuana growers.
The farm’s temperature-controlled tents glow pink from specially made grow lights.
&#8220;The people that developed these lights have figured out that plants grow more effectively under specific wavelengths of light,&#8221; said farm manager Hunter Moore, &#8220;It’s actually a combination of red and blue wavelengths that they grow under, so that actually gets us a pretty consistent production and growth time.&#8221;
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Vertical farming has its challenges: real estate prices, building costs, along with electricity and labor expenses have taken down some <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/vertical-farming-houston/552665/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">vertical farmers</a> around the country.
But growing hydroponically could make sense in places like Detroit.
&#8220;Hydroponic agriculture is really the next level technique where you’re growing in an area where there’s no soil available or where the soil’s highly contaminated,&#8221; farmhand Allie Mason said. &#8220;It’s an excellent solution when you’re living in a highly urban setting to be able to grow hydroponically and not only are we growing hydroponically but vertically so we’re maximizing the use of space.&#8221;
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&#8220;We don’t have those fluctuations in weather that every farmer has to deal with,&#8221; said marketing leader Meg Burritt, &#8220;It makes it a lot more sustainable, we get a lot more predictable yield.&#8221;
And the yield is available fresh, local, year-round.
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What is keeping some of our kids from living a full life? How do issues such as food and housing insecurity and mental health affect their lives and future? The team from Detroit Public TV’s “<a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/miweek/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">One Detroit</a>” and “<a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Black Journal</a>” addressed these issues in a live Solutions Roadshow – <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/a-solutions-roadshow-the-well-being-of-the-child-are-the-kids-all-right/">“Are the Kids All Right?”</a> – at <a href="https://www.citycovenantchurch.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">City Covenant Church</a> in the <a href="https://theneighborhoods.org/neighborhoods/brightmoor" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Brightmoor</a> neighborhood. This community conversation took a 360-degree view of the well-being of children and explored how residents in Brightmoor are working towards solutions that will give kids the best life possible – a promising career, access to health and educational opportunities and, most of all, the support that will allow them to thrive. One Detroit’s Christy McDonald, Stephen Henderson and Nolan Finley lead the discussion.
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The Detroit Economic Club Presents
The opioid epidemic has devastated families and communities across the nation, with 2 million Americans diagnosed with opioid-use disorder and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/upshot/opioids-overdose-deaths-rising-fentanyl.html?emc=edit_nn_20180816&amp;nl=morning-briefing&amp;nlid=6712710720180816&amp;te=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a record 72,000 overdose deaths estimated in 2017</a>. In addition, the national crisis has become an enormous financial burden for employers – at an estimated cost of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/The%20Underestimated%20Cost%20of%20the%20Opioid%20Crisis.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$504 billion</a>.
With new research showing 49 percent of employers — large and small — are impacted by employees’ use of opioids, Chris Swift, Chairman and CEO of The Hartford,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2018-05-31/the-heavy-toll-of-opioids-on-americas-labor-force" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believes opioids are a critical workplace issue</a>&nbsp;that today’s businesses must address. He will drive a solutions-oriented discussion around actions that companies of all sizes can take to help reduce the impact of opioids in the workplace and steps that policymakers can take to support employers in fighting the epidemic.
Moderated by Dr. Deanna Lites, Health Reporter,&nbsp;WWJ Newsradio 950, and the presenting officer is&nbsp;Hans-Werner Kaas&nbsp;Senior Partner, McKinsey &amp; Company.
Learn more at the <a href="http://www.econclub.org/meeting/economics-of-a-health-crisis-how-business-must-lead-in-the-battle-against-opioids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Economic Club</a>&#8216;s website.
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<h4>January 28, 2019 – Bill Kubota, Detroit Public Television’s One Detroit</h4>
Kelly’s Bar in Hamtramck was packed on a January Friday night.
Scott Boyink’s band Steve Harvey Oswald opened the show.
After his set, he wended through the crowd with his drumsticks and a silver briefcase.
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A part of Detroit’s music scene for two decades, he’s watched the effects of the opioid epidemic.
“I decided I wanted to start doing something about this when we started losing people whose music I really, really liked,” Boyink told One Detroit.
He opens his briefcase, which is filled with Narcan—the nasal spray that can save lives of opioid overdose victims if they can get it in time—handing three doses to a woman who plans on distributing them to others in her Detroit neighborhood.
“There is no doubt an opioid epidemic, but there’s an opioid epidemic that’s tempered with a fentanyl problem,” Boyink said. “There’s a component to it that we haven’t seen before.”
According to Boyink, highly potent opioid fentanyl has been showing up in cocaine and people don’t know it.
The Centers for Disease Control estimates nationally more than 70,000 people died from opioids in 2017 with Michigan ranking 11th in opioid deaths at nearly 2,000.
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Boyink began his one-man crusade last year, putting Narcan in Hamtramck and Detroit bars.
“What I usually tell them to do is keep it by the cash register,” said Boyink. “Because if you lock it in an office, it’s going to take too long to get to.”
Michigan law allows Narcan to be provided without prescription.
It costs about $70 a dose, but much of Boyink’s supply was donated by an emergency room doctor who apparently liked what he was doing.
Boyink said he gives regular Narcan training sessions local bars, promoted on social media.
His idea seems to be catching on.
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This January, the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority (DWMHA) held its own training session at El Club in southwest Detroit.
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“That was the first time we ever did it in a bar,” said Darlene Owens, Director of Substance Use Disorders Initiatives. “We’re used to churches, recreational centers, rotary clubs, but to do it in a bar in the community where actually we had folks that were heroin abusers that were there, and it was just great to be there.”
DWMHA started <a href="https://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/northville/2018/11/15/police-northville-twp-use-narcan-save-overdose-victims-life/1975927002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">training police departments</a> in Wayne County how to administer Narcan three years ago.
Last year, DWMHA started with the general public after Owens’s team created a <a href="https://www.dwmha.com/files/9915/3918/3207/Opioid__Drug_Take_Back_Day_10.10.18.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Narcan kit</a> that comes with the nasal spray, gloves and a face shield.
Owens said the gloves protect the care provider from exposure to fentanyl, which can be absorbed through the skin.
The face shield can be used when giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
“Our goal is for everyone to have a Narcan kit with them at all times,” Owens said, “because it could happen to anybody.”
DWMHA provides training throughout Wayne County when asked, complete with free kits.
Owens said they’re booked up through September.
Meanwhile, Boyink’s mission has changed his life.
He said he’s never had a serious drug problem, but heavy drinking led to him quitting his restaurant bar job to get away from the temptation.
For years he’d been trying to make a living screen printing tee-shirts in the basement of his Mount Clemens home, but now his experience with alcohol has led to a job as a peer advisor helping people overcome their addictions.
Boyink said he’ll keep handing out his supply of Narcan until it’s all gone.
He said he’s heard of individuals doing the same thing in places like Milwaukee and Chicago, and others keep asking him how he did it.
“I certainly wasn’t reinventing the wheel on this,” Boyink said.
He’s working day and night, looking to connect with any opioid user he can.
“I’m not here to judge them, I’m here to enable them to eventually make the right decision. And that’s what Narcan does.”
If they live, they can enter recovery, Boyink said.
See Boyink’s story airing on <a href="http://www.dptv.org/home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Public Television</a>’s <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OneDetroit_Logo_Orange_Blk.png"> </a><a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> </a><a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-892" src="https://www.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OneDetroit_Logo_Orange_Blk.png" alt="One Detroit - Detroit Public TV (logo)" width="55" height="21" srcset="https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OneDetroit_Logo_Orange_Blk.png 1520w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OneDetroit_Logo_Orange_Blk.png 300w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OneDetroit_Logo_Orange_Blk.png 1024w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/OneDetroit_Logo_Orange_Blk.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 55px) 100vw, 55px" /> </a>Thursday January 31st at 7:30pm.
More about Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority: <a href="https://www.dwmha.com/programs-services/substance-use-disorders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-3362" src="https://www.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DWMHA-logo.png" alt="" width="50" height="39" /></a>
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A briefcase full of Narcan

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 Japanese tradition means pounding in the New Year with fresh mochi, rice smashed into a gooey paste and molded into round cakes, then eaten for good luck.
 This December, the Detroit area chapter of the <a href="https://jacldetroit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Japanese American Citizens League</a> held its second annual Mochitsuki Holiday Party, with mochi-making as the main attraction.
 The mochitsuki celebration is a Japanese tradition that goes back a thousand years.
 Traditional mochi-making requires those with the strength and stamina of John Henry to wield big wooden mallets to pound the rice, but in these modern times high-tech Japanese machines do the work.
One Detroit has that story at the video above.
Mochi relies on a special Japanese sweet rice which is easy to find in Michigan, although a few generations ago, it was slim pickings.
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Japanese Americans came to Detroit in large numbers as World War II ended&#8211;2,000 by 1946 according to the Detroit Free Press at the time&#8211;encouraged to settle here from the mass incarceration camps out west.
 Basic foods like kamaboko (processed fishcake), sashimi (prepared raw fish), and nori (dried seaweed) were hard to find.
 Louise Itami, age 88, lived on Detroit’s west side and remembers a store on Fenkell Avenue where her family could get rice, bean sprouts and canned goods.
 She also recalls a store called Kuwahara’s Trading Post in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, which is referenced in a book about Japanese Americans in Detroit called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/exiledtomotown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exiled in Motown</a>.
By then, Itami and her family moved to Troy and Kuwahara’s relocated, ending up nearby on Fourteen Mile Road in Clawson.
The Japanese American population was spread out across the Detroit region, so Kuwahara’s was a local destination for Japanese Americans.
“If you wanted to meet people,” Itami said, “just stand there awhile.”
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Frank Kuwahara sold his store and retired in the 1980s. It’s still been operating as the <a href="http://www.noblefish.com/dining.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noble Fish</a> grocery store and sushi bar.
As a child, Itami remembers his family pounding mochi around New Year’s Day in Florin, California before World War II. 
Her husband, Nobi, remembers people making it during the war in the internment camps, but the couple didn’t start making their own mochi until 1992.
 That’s when Itami got her own electric mochi-making machine.
 “It’s a miracle to me,” she said.
Her husband likes his mochi in ozoni, a soup made with vegetables, usually in a fish stock.
Louise likes it sprinkled with sugar and some toasted soybean flour called kinako.
She still shops at Noble Fish, but in recent years bigger stores have popped up that have most of what she needs such as <a href="http://www.168asianmarket.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">168 Asian Mart</a> in Madison Heights.
“Now, even the Chinese store has it,” Itami said.
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New Year’s mochi and the recent history of Japanese food in Detroit

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Bottled water has replaced the drinking fountains in Detroit’s public schools as they opened this week.
The district feared possible lead in the water throughout the system after testing found elevated lead levels in 34 of its 106 schools.
Flint pediatrician <a href="https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=627338" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha</a> told One Detroit’s Stephen Henderson on WDET’s Detroit Today radio program she applauds Detroit Schools for taking that step.
“This is a positive ripple effect of the Flint crisis,” she said, “It’s a recognition that we do have lead in our water and we do have lead in our water in our schools, not only in Flint but all over the state and all over this nation.”
Dr. Hanna-Attisha found herself at the center of the Flint water crisis in 2015 when she discovered elevated lead levels in schoolchildren.
She detailed her story in her book What the Eyes Don’t See, released in June this year.
Last month the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a survey about lead in the water in the nation’s schools following the events in Flint.
Of the school districts tested, 43 percent tested positive for lead. Of those, 37 percent found elevated levels and reduced or eliminated the problem.
The G.A.O. noted there is no federal law requiring the testing of drinking water in schools that receive water from public water systems.
Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.
A change made to the Act in 2011 reduced the amount of allowable lead allowed in drinking water.
“These rules and regulations are not strong enough,” Dr. Hanna-Attisha said, “They have not caught up with the science, especially the science of lead where we now know there is no safe level.”
Watch some of Dr. Hanna-Attisha talking with One Detroit’s Stephen Henderson, which aired on <a href="https://wdet.org/shows/detroit-today/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-2133 " src="https://www.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wdet-logo.jpg" alt="" width="40" height="40" srcset="https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wdet-logo.jpg 400w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wdet-logo.jpg 300w, https://detroit-pbs-admin-vpb.3lanemarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/wdet-logo.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 40px) 100vw, 40px" /></a>August 30, 2018.
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Detroit Schools drinking water shutoff “a positive ripple effect of the Flint crisis”

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<h2>“Higher than acceptable” levels of lead, copper in 16 schools</h2>
It’s not a great way to begin the new school year.
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Water at the 16 Detroit Public Schools where what the superintendent is calling “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/detroit-schools-use-bottled-water-due-lead-copper-concerns-n904946" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher than acceptable</a>” lead and copper levels were detected was shut off on Tuesday of this week. 18 Detroit Public Schools already had water shut off due to water quality concerns, bringing the total of schools that have no drinking water to 34. Bottled water and water coolers are being brought in so kids will have safe clean drinking water as classes begin. Classes are scheduled to start next week (September 4th for most schools) as planned.
The Detroit Public School District has approximately 52,000 students in 104 schools.
Staff and families were informed of the decision to shut off drinking water in Detroit Public Schools via robocalls on Tuesday. However, city officials say the water coming out of the taps at Detroit resident’s homes and businesses is safe.
<h2>Aging school infrastructure is the reason for the precautionary measure</h2>
Great Lakes Now checked with the Great Lakes Water Authority and Detroit Water and Sewerage which supply water throughout the city.
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We received the following statement in an email: “The Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA) and the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) want to assure Detroit residents and customers of GLWA&#8217;s regional system that they are not affected by the lead and copper issues that the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) is experiencing. Aging school infrastructure (i.e. plumbing) is the reason for the precautionary measure of providing bottled water. The treated drinking water provided by GLWA and distributed by DWSD not only meets, but surpasses all federal and state Safe Drinking Water Act regulations for quality and safety. The water at GLWA’s treatment plants is tested hourly and DWSD has no lead service lines connected to any DPSCD building. The drinking water is of unquestionable quality. GLWA and DWSD stand ready to provide any technical assistance to DPSCD.”
Detroit Public School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti tells Great Lakes Now: “I initiated water testing of all of our school buildings during the spring to ensure the safety of our students and employees. This was not required by federal, state, or city law or mandate. This testing, unlike previous testing, evaluated all water sources from sinks to drinking fountains. This past week initial results were returned for 24 schools and higher than acceptable levels were identified for copper and/or lead in 16 schools at one or more water sources. I immediately turned off the drinking water at those schools and provided water bottles until water coolers arrive.”
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Superintendent Vitti says, “When I started as superintendent last year, I was notified that 10 schools were using a DiHydro filtration system. I made the decision to shut off all drinking fountains and provide bottled water and water coolers to those schools at that time because of my concerns with water quality despite the intervention. The latest water results (16 schools), coupled with those from 2016 (10 DiHydro schools) and follow up results in the spring of 2018 for schools identified with concerns in 2016 (8 schools) in the spring, brings the total number of schools with water quality issues to 34.”
Superintendent Vitti says there’s no evidence right now of copper or lead in the more than 50 other schools in the district, but he says, “Out of an abundance of caution and concern for the safety of our students and employees, I am turning off all drinking water in our schools until a deeper and broader analysis can be conducted to determine the long-term solutions for all schools.”
<h2>There are no government regulations requiring the testing of water at schools</h2>
Great Lakes Now contacted The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to find out more about the rules regarding testing of water for public schools. MDEQ Public Information Officer Tiffany Brown says, “There are no government regulations requiring the testing of water at schools. The department is contacting the school system to offer assistance and will also work with their water supply.”
Thomas Lyon who holds the Dow Chair of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce, with appointments in both the Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, says &#8220;It is deeply disheartening that Detroit schools have these water problems. Still, it is encouraging that Superintendent (Nikolai) Vitti had them tested and responded quickly when the results showed elevated levels of lead or copper.”
Lyon says, &#8220;If there is any positive legacy to the Flint disaster, it is in creating greater awareness of threats to safe drinking water and the need for vigilance. Even if the municipal water supply system is providing high-quality water, old water pipes in buildings can cause contamination. It is a good sign that Detroit is taking proactive measures to protect its school children.&#8221;
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Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director of the organization called FLOW (for love of water) based in Traverse City tells Great Lakes Now, &#8220;Today&#8217;s news is simply horrific. As of now, we have no idea how long the young minds and future generation of Detroit have been exposed to harmful levels of lead and copper.  Moreover, the joint statement from DWSD and GLWA brings no comfort to Detroiters as these agencies blame aging school infrastructure for this public health crisis.  What other aging infrastructure must be tested for lead service lines? According to the 2017 report authored by the Urban Institute, eighty percent of Detroit’s housing supply was built before 1960.&#8221;
Simone Lightfoot, National Director of Urban Initiatives at the National Wildlife Federation blames Detroit&#8217;s water problems on the emergency manager systems that usurp statutory regulations, offer inadequate transparency and woefully unacceptable record keeping.&#8221; The state of Michigan has had some sort of emergency manager law since 1988.  This summer , Governor Snyder&#8217;s office announced that Michigan school districts and cities are collectively operating without a single emergency manager for the first time in nearly 18 years.  Lightfoot tells Great Lakes Now. &#8220;These predictable factors correlate directly to our water being compromised. &#8221; She says, &#8220;Under emergency manager, historically steeped and common sense measures are replaced by practices such as going from no water bills to excessive water costs in Highland Park, inhumane water shutoffs in Detroit, the virtual give away of water front property in Benton Harbor and lead poisoning in Flint.  All under emergency manager governance.&#8221;
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Lightfoot says the Detroit Public Schools Drinking Water Shut off should be a massive wake-up call that moves people to action in the state of Michigan and beyond. She says, &#8220;Funders and those that influence resources have to begin to value and redirect funds to resident and citizen science efforts, advocacy, outreach and community education again, particularly in urban centers.  They must understand that getting information to people, having science gathered and interpreted into mobilizing efforts, convenings centered around alternative financing and crafting water policy to hand deliver to elected officials should be a baseline.  At all levels, our current government struggles to provide basic data and thresholds, water testing, natural resource protection and science based solutions.  Without this and other needed changes, our mounting problems with water quality, availability, affordability and access have only just begun.&#8221;
<h2>“Legislators are not prioritizing the children of Detroit”</h2>
Great Lakes Now wanted to find out more about what Detroit Public School students think about the fact that they’ll be going back to school in buildings where the water is believed to be unsafe to drink. 17-year old Elisa Estrella, who’s a rising senior at Cass Tech, says when she learned the news on Instagram and Snapchat on Wednesday, “I was concerned. Like, are they going to fix it? I was thinking about what happened in Flint: they didn’t have safe drinking water for 4 years. That’s crazy.”
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Another Cass Tech student, 17-year old Pamela Beltran, tells Great Lakes Now the news is “disheartening.” But she says, “I’m not really surprised. Detroit Public Schools have the lowest resources but we’re expected to perform at the highest standards. This demonstrates how legislators are not prioritizing the children of Detroit. We’re not getting the resources we need.” Great Lakes Now contacted the students with the help of the citywide education organizing network in Detroit called 482Forward.
Great Lakes Now received this statement from Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s office:
“We are fully supportive of the approach Dr. Vitti has taken to test all water sources within DPS schools and to provide bottled water until the district can implement a plan to ensure that all water is safe for use. We will be supporting Dr. Vitti in an advisory capacity through the health department and the DWSD has offered to partner with the district on any follow up testing that needs to be done. We also will be reaching out to our charter operators in the coming days to work with them on a possible similar testing strategy to the voluntary one Dr. Vitti has implemented. “
Great Lakes Now also contacted Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s office. Deputy Press Secretary Tanya Baker says the Governor does not have a statement at this time but says the Governor’s office has asked the DEQ to look into the matter.
Featured Image: School drinking fountain, Photo by Martina Yach via flickr.com cc 2.0
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Drinking water shut off at all Detroit Public Schools

Anna-Clark

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Detroit author Anna Clark sits down with One Detroit producer, Will Glover, to talk about her book, &#8216;The Poisoned City: Flint&#8217;s Water and the American Urban Tragedy&#8217;. In this account of the Flint water crisis, Clark writes about the series of decisions that ultimately led to the poisoning of Flint&#8217;s water supply, the plight of its residents battling for accountability, and the long road ahead to recovery.
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One Detroit Report | Anna Clark, Author of ‘The Poisoned City’

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Medical marijuana has been legal in Michigan for 10 years. In November, voters will get to vote on legalizing recreational marijuana statewide. Six of the candidates running for governor sat down with reporters from the Detroit Journalism Cooperative to ask them what they thought about a variety of issues including recreational marijuana, and what it would mean for the state should it become legal.
Stephen Carmody from Michigan Radio posed the question to the candidates in attendance.
Brian Calley (R):
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Stephen Carmody: Michiganders vote on recreational marijuana this fall. What is your thoughts on that? If it does pass, how will your administration implement it?
Brian Calley: I oppose it. I will be voting against it. If it does pass, I will faithfully respect the will of the voters and implement it the best I can. We have other controlled substances in the regulatory system, so it is very doable to regulate it. My main concern is not one about where I think marijuana would be the worst thing ever. It is just that we already have a problem with filling all the jobs out there today. I just think this is going to make it worse. People do not maybe realize that. Just because something is legal does not mean that you can use it and still qualify for the job. There are a lot of jobs that people, if they become users, will take themselves out of commission for. Having another mind-altering substance out there kind of with the endorsement of the state or government on it I think is a bad thing. If it passes though like tobacco, alcohol, and those sorts of things; we will have to come up with a regulatory system in order to make sure that we keep it as far away from kids as we can.
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Patrick Colbeck (R):
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Stephen Carmody: This fall, Michiganders vote on recreational marijuana. What’s your feeling on that? Do you support it? Are you opposed to it? And if it does pass, how will your administration implement it?
Patrick Colbeck: Yeah, I was opposed to the expansion of medical marijuana provisions. I thought what the people put into the statute was fine, just the two and a half ounces, 12 plants. That was reasonable because when you’re talking about marijuana, it’s still a controlled substance. You can’t use the bank for it so it’s a cash only business. I’d rather have people walking around with 20s than having them walk around with Brinks cars, which is what happened under the medical marijuana expansion.
At the time medical marijuana was expanded, against my vote, I was on the senate judiciary committee. I heard all the testimony around it. And I opposed it because there’s so much money being thrown into this business that I think the election’s being bought. I think the ballot’s being bought. I think people are not given the full story about what the impacts are. They’re only being talked about what the positives are, and everybody loves new tax revenue and they’re pitching that. They’re not focused on what the increased expenses are going to be.
So this recreational marijuana ballot initiative, I’m opposed to for a variety of reasons. Number one, we’ve got issues with folks driving under the influence of alcohol. I don’t want to add people driving under the influence of marijuana to that equation. Second of all, I’ve got 31,000 job openings in my district right now. We want to grow our economy. If we go off and pass recreational marijuana, people are going to have to pass drug tests to get employment. That number that I have of open job openings here in my district is going to go up. When that number of job openings goes up, the number of people on government assistance is also going to go up because they can’t find a job because they can’t pass a drug test. That is a bad recipe for Michigan’s future from my perspective.
Having said that, if they do pass it and they vote to pass it and get it so that we’re a recreational marijuana state, we’ll find a way to make it work. we’ll find a way to make it safe for everybody. But it puts in jeopardy a lot of the things that we would like to do for our economy and for the quality of life here for Michigan residents.
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Jim Hines (R):
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Stephen Carmody: Actually, I want to focus more on recreational marijuana, since we’ll be voting on that in the fall. Michiganders voting on recreational marijuana this fall. What’s your opinion? Do you think that that should pass? Are you against it? If you’re for it, why? If not, why not?
Jim Hines: So let me start off by saying I support medical marijuana. I have dozens of patients that have gone off all of their regular chronic medications taking medical marijuana. So I support that. I think that there needs to be regulations and further research to know exactly why the CBD component of marijuana seems to work in so many different illnesses and problems, not just chronic back pain and so forth.
Recreational marijuana is a different story. I don’t support recreational marijuana. When it goes to the ballot and if the voters of the state were to approve it, then I would support it. However, I think that it would need to be regulated. We still need the research to know what’s the incidence of lung cancer. When you’re on a heart medication and you’re on recreational marijuana, does that medication need to be adjusted? What’s the proper dose?
There are so many questions that have to be answered with recreational marijuana. In addition, just practically, how do you keep it away from minors? How do you deal with school bus drivers on marijuana? They should be clean of marijuana, or police officers that stop someone that is driving erratically and they test positive for marijuana, how do you deal with that and how do you keep that from happening? So there’s a lot of regulation issues that have to be discussed.
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Abdul El-Sayed (D):
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Stephen Carmody: As you pointed out Michiganders will be voting on legalizing recreational marijuana this fall. What&#8217;s your opinion of it not only as a person who will be voting on it but s a physician?
Abdul El Sayed: Yeah. I believe that we need to legalize marijuana. I&#8217;ve never smoked marijuana just as a matter of personal choice, but I do believe that there are a lot of reasons why we&#8217;ve got to get out and we&#8217;ve got to legalize this.
1. It&#8217;s a civil rights issue. If you are black in this country you are 3.3 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession just by no higher likelihood of use. And it is a big reason why that plus the war on drugs it is a big reason why we have seen a tearing apart of social fabrics in low income African American communities because of the system of laws on the books and the way that we police. It&#8217;s not right. We have to upend it.
I intend when legalization happens, I intend to both pardon and to push legislation to expunge records of non-violent offenses for marijuana possession. That&#8217;s number one.
2. I&#8217;m a doctor. I remember seeing a patient, a 10 year old girl who had a seizure disorder and tried all the medications with all the side effects that came with them and the thing that worked was marijuana. The thing is that we don’t actually know how to use it in what amount, in what delivery mechanism, in what regimen of use because it remains illegal for recreational use. And so we&#8217;ve got a responsibility to better understand cannabis as a medication and I don&#8217;t believe that happens until we legalize it.
3. There is a lot of money that the state could be making on excise taxes on the back end, $125 million that goes into investing in the things we talked about; schools and roads. We got a responsibility to make sure we can do that.
4. Right now, there is a lot of illegal activity, real illegal activity, dangerous activity that happens because we are pushing marijuana use and sale underground. And all of that goes away when you legalize it.
5. I think I&#8217;m on 6. Now, I just don&#8217;t believe that marijuana is any more dangerous medically than alcohol and yet we regulate alcohol in a particular way and we regulate marijuana in a different way. And I just believe that we&#8217;ve got a double standard and that double standard doesn&#8217;t really make sense.
And so, I fully support legalization. But beyond that I do believe Michiganders are going to legalize. We need a governor who is thinking about how to make sure that we don&#8217;t have a full on corporate take over of the marijuana trade pulling a lot of money out of low income communities where it had been in the past even if illicitly. Second, we have a really good opportunity to be able to stand up the ability to do some of this research in Michigan and as somebody who was NIH funded as a researcher I know how to do that and I think we&#8217;ve got an opportunity to set that up so that we are creating the kind of medical knowledge that benefits people in the state.
So I look forward to a moment when the state stands up and does the right thing and legalizes. And I think we&#8217;re in a good position to make sure that the use and the sale is safe and that the best benefit comes out of it.
Stephen Carmody: Do you have any concerns about the potential social and health issues that may arise by having a broader access to marijuana?
Abdul El Sayed: Sure. Look, we&#8217;ve got to make sure that marijuana doesn&#8217;t fall into the hands of children and we&#8217;ve got to make sure that people are not driving while intoxicated. The fact is keeping it illegal doesn&#8217;t make that that much easier, right? And a lot of the research shows some pretty interesting findings. For example, the big question has been well, if you make marijuana legal is marijuana a gateway drug? And it turns out it&#8217;s not actually the use of marijuana that is a gateway it is the doing of something illegal. And so once somebody has done something illegal and right now, recreational use of marijuana is illegal, probably that they are going to do something else illegal becomes a lot higher because you&#8217;ve already broken that barrier.
So it&#8217;s not the drug itself. It&#8217;s not marijuana itself. It is the fact that we&#8217;ve created this artificial boundary by which marijuana is outside the bounds of legality. And so I think that there is a lot of potential benefit actually in terms of being able to prevent some of the other harder drug use and being able to actually be thoughtful about how we regulate marijuana from falling into the wrong hands in children. Or its use when people are operating heavy machinery or cars that I think it&#8217;s a lot easier once you&#8217;ve made it illegal.
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Shri Thanedar (D):
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Stephen Carmody: This fall, Michiganders will be voting on legalizing recreational marijuana. Would like to know what your thoughts are on that. And if it was to pass, what would you do as Governor to make sure that this actually works?
Shri Thanedar: Well, first of all, I am fully supportive of the ballot proposal for recreational marijuana. Once it passes, I would use my authority and my power as a governor to pardon those who are in prison, nonviolent offenders for small possession charges. I would commute those sentences, I would expunge their records, I would provide them the skillset they need to return to society and become productive members of the society.
So, my focus is going to be on expungement. I will ensure that public safety is maintained while we allow entrepreneurship and I will make sure that big corporations from out of state do not come and take advantage of this new law. But local entrepreneurs are able to take advantage of this new opportunity and I would like to economic prosperity to come as one of the – growth should be in the cannabis industry.
Stephen Carmody: Do you have any concerns about the potential effects societally on Michigan of allowing recreational use?
Shri Thanedar: I believe that marijuana should be regulated in a manner similar to alcohol and there should be strict guidelines in terms of the levels of cannabis in the bloodstream. And we need to use science to ensure that we set appropriate regulations and standards so that public safety is maintained.
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Gretchen Whitmer (D):
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Stephen Carmody: This fall Michiganders vote on legalizing recreational marijuana. What’s your thoughts on that? And if it passes, how would you as governor make sure that the rollout works?
Gretchen Whitmer: The second part of that question is really important and I’m grateful that you asked it. I’m going to be a yes vote on the initiative. In 2008 after years of trying to get stem cell research permitted in Michigan, Joe Schwarz, a Republican and I decided with a big group of people that we needed to go straight to the voters and get it passed. That same year medical marijuana was on the ballot as well. I’ll tell you, I supported both. It was long before it was fashionable to support any marijuana changes.
But I supported both because when I was in my first term in the legislature my mom got sick and died of brain cancer and I took care of her at the end of her life. That experience is what drove me to push for stem cell research here in Michigan so we could be in the race for cures. But also to embrace medical marijuana so that she could have had some relief. She died before it passed but I think that was really important at the time.
And our leaders failed the people. Our leaders frequently ignore the will of the public. Like when we rejected that emergency management law, they just pushed it through again with a gimmick to override the will of the people. That happened on medicinal marijuana. They did not, Mike Cox and Bill Schuette never wanted to make it successful and so they did not promulgate rules to ensure that it was and the will of the people was respected.
That’s why part two of your question is really important. When this passes, because I believe it will, I will take it very seriously and push forward to make sure that we do it right. So it stays out of the hands of kids, to ensure that the dollars actually go where they’re supposed to, into our infrastructure and our schools. To promulgate rules so there’s not this huge grey area that gets in the way of effectuating the will of the people. We have a duty to respect the people when they vote and to carry forward their wishes. That’s something I’m absolutely committed to.
Stephen Carmody: Any concerns about the potential social effects of legalized recreational marijuana?
Gretchen Whitmer: Oh absolutely. There’s always concern and the biggest concern is insuring that it stays out of the hands of kids, you know as their brains are developing. But there is so much unknown around marijuana because it’s been illegal for so long that the studies haven&#8217;t moved forward the way that we really should have. Some of the stuff they’re doing across the world is really encouraging. It can be used as an exit drug. We’ve got an opioid epidemic here in Michigan. I think that there are so much unknown but certainly that creates a lot of concerns as well.
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More on the Detroit Journalism Cooperative Gubernatorial Candidate Interviews:
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This year, Michigan voters will be selecting a new governor, who will be facing important issues that will determine the health and vitality of the state for years to come.
The first step in the electoral process is the state primary on August 7, when the standard bearer for both the Democratic and Republican parties will be determined.
The Detroit Journalism Cooperative invited all major party candidates to the Detroit Public Television studio for individual, hour-long interviews with a panel of its reporters. The candidates received virtually the same questions and were able to respond at length, providing voters with a much more in-depth and contextual understanding of where each stood on the issues of importance to the state than they can glean from conventional coverage.
So please consider their opinions carefully and, most of all, vote!
Every candidate accepted the invitation to be interviewed except for Attorney General Bill Schuette.
<a href="https://www.detroitjournalism.org/2018/07/20/michigan-gubernatorial-candidates-on-the-issues/">Click here for more on the Detroit Journalism Cooperative&#8217;s interviews with the gubernatorial candidates &gt;</a> 
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