The mission of the Healthy Homes Coalition is to prioritize children's health and wellbeing by eliminating harmful housing conditions, beginning in Grand Rapids’ hardest hit neighborhoods.
All children will grow up in healthy homes free of environmental hazards, accomplished through policy and advocacy, outreach and education, direct services, and continuous collaboration.
Environmental Justice - We will promote environmental justice and health equity in all of our actions.
Empowering Families - We will use a family-centered approach to promote housing environments where children thrive and achieve their highest potential.
Respect - We will provide services to all people in a culturally sensitive manner that respects dignity.
Integrity - We will be honest and above reproach in all our personal and professional relationships.
In the U.S., asthma results in 1.8 million emergency room visits, 497,000 hospitalizations, and 4,000 deaths each year.
Thanks to support from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund and the generosity of Mike and Susan Jandernoa, the Healthy Homes Coalition is busy working with our partners at Well Design to build an online home screening application.
Very carefully, the staff at the Healthy Homes Coalition is working to support parents as they make their homes healthier for their children.
Our commitment to healthy environments for children connects us, inextricably, to many other injustices—including the current cry for policing reform. These injustices all find their root in racism. We are committed to working hard to both solve injustice and end racism.