Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services Protect MiFamily, Interim Report

In July 2016, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services released this interim report regarding the Protect MiFamily (PMF), Michigan IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project. The goal of PMF is to test the hypothesis that an array of intensive and innovative home-based family preservation services tailored to the needs of individual families that have had contact with Children’s Protective Services due to child abuse/neglect allegations will: prevent the incidence and recurrence of maltreatment; reduce the number of children who enter out-of-home placement; improve child safety and increase parental protective factors; improve family and child . . .