By Brian Smith
MLive
LANSING — A Michigan Department of Human Services program that makes the agency’s services more directly available to at-risk families is drawing support from an unlikely source: the state’s prison population.
The “Pathways to Potential” program is a project that embeds department personnel in selected schools in Detroit, Flint, Pontiac, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, Muskegon and Warren, giving students and their parents easier access to the department’s assistance programs.
“We started putting workers in 21 schools in 2012,” Sheryl Thompson, the program’s statewide coordinator, said Monday. “By the end of the 2012-2013 school year, we were in 124 schools.”
The program added the Kalamazoo, Muskegon and Warren schools for the 2013-2014 school year, Thompson said, bringing the number of schools served to 158.
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