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State highlights services for Child Abuse Prevention Month

In honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is recognizing the critical role prevention programs play in keeping children safe and strengthening families. “MDHHS is committed to ensuring families have access to the support they need, when they need it,” Elizabeth Hertel, MDHHS director, said in a news release. “Early support helps families stay strong and stable to enable children to grow up safe and healthy, and for communities to thrive.” Research demonstrates that positive childhood experiences — such as feeling safe, ...

Earth Day over 56 years grows from ‘teach-in’ to global event

Millions of people around the world will pause today, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet that is now home to about 8 billion humans and assorted trillions of other organisms. Here are answers to some common questions about Earth Day and how it came to be: Why do we celebrate Earth Day? Earth Day has its roots in growing concern over pollution in the 1960s, when author Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring," about the pesticide DDT and its damaging effects on the food chain, ...

National Drug Take Back Day on Saturday

Doing some spring cleaning? Don't forget the medicine cabinet. The Michigan State Police is once again taking part in a national initiative that encourages residents to properly dispose of expired, unused and unwanted prescription pills. All of MSP’s 31 posts will participate in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. That includes the MSP Iron Mountain post, 1916 N. Stephenson Ave. on the city’s North Side. This is one of two annual events held in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration and other police agencies, MSP advises in ...