Our Stories of Community Impact

These are the stories of making a difference in our community.
They are the stories of lives changed, or changing.
They are your stories that help pull the Planning Process forward.

If you have a story that demonstrates effective service that creates impact, please send them to Employee Central. We'd like to share!

Need + Capacity = Budget -> Impact!

When Innovation is the Impact: Agricultural Innovation Counselor Mike Score

Agricultural agents have worked with farmers since the late 1800s. Their role has been to help the working farm identify and overcome barriers to increased production profitability. These agents have found themselves on the leading edge of all [more]
June 28, 2007 10:14 am

WIC: A Case for Best Practices

The Washtenaw County Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC) is a federally funded health and nutrition program that provides pregnant women, new mothers, and young children with nourishing supplemental foods, nutrition education and counseling, [more]
June 28, 2007 10:11 am

The New Ypsilanti Farmers Market

How do you eat healthy food when you live in a “food desert”? A community food assessment, conducted by the Ypsilanti Health Coalition (YHC) in 2005 in the Ypsilanti area, south of Michigan Avenue, produced convincing data that documented [more]
June 28, 2007 9:58 am

Environmental Health: Partnering Against the Norovirus

Did you ever stop to consider the safety of the food you eat? Although America enjoys one of the safest food supplies in the world, 76 million people get sick, more than 300,000 are hospitalized and 5,000 Americans die each year from food-related [more]
June 28, 2007 9:47 am

Impact on Our Community: CSTS PACE

This story is one of people and programs working together, in a synergistic way, to make a difference in one extraordinary individual's life – a life that now is making a positive difference in her community. Kathy Young, living [more]
June 28, 2007 9:32 am

Impact on Our Community: ETCS Michigan Works!

This is the story of creating opportunities that led to fulfillment and success for Konekca Woods, a single mother who had been on Welfare. In November of 2005 Konekca walked into the ETCS Michigan Works! Service Center. Her own triumphal success [more]
June 28, 2007 8:30 am

Impact on Our Community: The Barrier Busters

To Whom it May Concern: I’m writing this letter just to say thanks. Recently I was in need of a great sum of money to move into a better neighborhood and bigger apt. No one could help, I had a deadline [more]
May 2, 2007 9:46 pm

Estraya & Ronaldo: Healthier Mothers, Healthier Babies

When Estraya was referred to the Maternal Infant Health Program of Washtenaw County Public Health, she was 7 months pregnant, had not been seen by a doctor, spoke little English and was very scared. The Maternal Infant Health Program helped Estraya [more]
February 7, 2007 12:47 am

Larry Can Vote by Himself Now

November of 2006 was the first time that Larry, a quadriplegic since a drunk driver hit and flipped his car when he was 22, was able to actually cast a secret ballot. The Elections Division’s Sip/Puff device allows a person to “mark” their ballot [more]
February 7, 2007 12:20 am

Walker: A Former Client for Children's Services

“I took my car in for an oil change and the manager on duty said he recognized me. He asked about some of the teachers, and former teachers in the day treatment program. He asked how my children were doing and recalled that I was nine months [more]
February 6, 2007 11:55 pm

Otho Egdor - Homelessness to Heroism

Formerly homeless and addicted, Otho’s story now includes “local hero” as this PORT client recently saved a woman from a burning house near Zingerman’s Deli, where he works in the kitchen. “I didn’t do anything that anyone wouldn’t do,” [more]
February 6, 2007 11:00 pm

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