The Detroit Health Department has been providing important public health services to Detroiters for over 100 years. The Health Department’s mission is to work in partnership with Detroiters to protect and promote their health, well-being, safety and resilience, and to respond to every public health need with exceptional leadership, policies, programs and services.
Training, employing, and promoting CHWs is only one way the Health Department builds individual and community capacity in Detroit.