• What is the Department of Human Services?
The Department of Human Services (DHS) is Michigan's public assistance, child and family welfare agency. DHS directs the operations of public assistance and service programs through a network of over 100 county department of human service offices around the state.

• What are Problem Resolution Offices? 
In cooperation with DHS, the state's Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) will open temporary mini-Problem Resolution Offices (PRO) inside three DHS offices.

• Weatherization Fact Sheet 

• Financial Exploitation - Fact Sheet 

• DHS Monthly Compiled Program Fact Sheet 

• Safe Delivery Fact Sheet (Statistics) 

• Adoption Facts

• Frequently Asked Questions about Adoption
What do you want to know about adopting from the foster care system? Find the answers here.

• Proposed Budget Cuts for Fiscal year 2010
Learn more about the proposed budget cuts to DHS' Fiscal Year 2010 budget.

• Frequently Asked Questions about Weatherization
Have questions about weatherization? The answers are here.

• Detroit Free Press - Sept. 18, 2009 
Ismael Ahmed: Budget cuts equal people cuts

• Traverse City Record-Eagle - July 1, 2009 
Ismael Ahmed: Watch for, report abuse of elders

• Detroit Free Press - Oct. 8, 2008 
Ismael Ahmed: Join the battle against poverty in Michigan

• December 2007: The most wonderfully excessive time of the year
Op-Ed by Ismael Ahmed, director of the Michigan Department of Human Services

• Adoptuskids on YouTube
View the award-winning videos and PSAs that make up this campaign.

• Ahmed: Budget cuts too deep, damage state's safety net
DHS Director Ismael talks about the impact of proposed budget cuts.

• DHS YouTube Video Channel
Catch the latest news events and interviews here on DHS' very own news channel on YouTube.

• Infant Safe Sleep Video

• Poverty Summit On YouTube
Press conferences, interviews and other presentations are on YouTube. Check it out.