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Child Development and Care
Infants and Toddlers
Children's Healthcare Access Program
Kent County Children’s Healthcare Access Program (CHAP) and Wayne County CHAP are improving health outcomes for low-income children while reducing health care costs. CHAP is a medical home model that was created in partnership with local Great Start Collaboratives as well as local health plans, hospitals, health departments, businesses and agencies. CHAP in Michigan began in Kent County through the vision and leadership of local pediatrician, Dr. Tom Peterson; a non-profit organization led by prominent business executives and philanthropists; and a forward-thinking managed care plan. Efforts to replicate the CHAP model are taking place across the state with Wayne County beginning to implement its CHAP model in 2011.
- Read our Focus on MI Communities piece on Kent and Wayne CHAP.
- See the joint media release by Michigan's Children, First Steps Kent, and the ECIC on CHAP.
- See the Grand Rapids Press article highlighting Kent CHAP.





