The Health and Human Services Council is the official community collaborative for Midland County. It is made up of 25 key community leaders focusing on health and social service delivery, fostering collaboration and cooperation among agencies, education, health care, the faith based community, the courts, law enforcement, city and county government.

The Midland County Continuum of Care is a collaborative made up of representatives from 28 agencies with the mission of providing housing-related services to those who are homeless or living in substandard housing. The Continuum of Care promotes safe, supportive shelter and affordable housing for all.

Success by 6 began as a United Way program but has since “grown up and moved out of the house.” However United Way continues to support SB6 with a grant through the Women’s Initiative.
Success by 6 is more than individual programs for young children, it’s really more about the coming together of parents, community services, businesses and individuals working to give all children the tools and learning skills to succeed for life. SB6 is raising the awareness of the importance of early childhood development, increasing access to services, advocating for public policies and improving systems – budgets, laws and supports – to improve young children’s lives.

A relatively new program of SB6 is the Imagination Library which was originally developed by county singer Dolly Parton for her home community in Tennessee.  Thanks to the Success By Six Partnership and the Midland County Educational Service Agency all children in Midland County, ages birth to five-years-old, can now receive one book a month.

MITCON, powered by a grant from the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation set about standardizing the workplaces of the consortium’s members, mostly health and human services non-profits, as they came aboard.

They found that most of these organizations dedicated so much of their funding to helping the people they serve that information technology just wasn’t a priority; it couldn’t be. Most of them had no networks, no way of effectively sharing files, no connection to the Internet, no email to speak of. So MITCON had to start to find ways to bring these folks up to speed, to get their hardware and software updated, to help them budget for IT needs. And they had to do it efficiently and affordably.

That was then; today MITCON is delivering top-tier IT service, support and planning to 35 organizations around Midland.