MI Tri-Share 2024 Evaluation Report
Access to affordable, high-quality child care continues to be a challenge for working families across Michigan. The lack of affordable child care can force at least one parent to choose between working and not working. The MI Tri-Share program is a unique cost-sharing approach for child care that splits the cost among employees, their employers, […]
Out-Wayne Needs Assessment Report
HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain a persistent health issue across Michigan. In 2023, about 52,000 Michiganders were diagnosed with one or more reportable STIs, and 17,970 were living with HIV (Michigan Department of Health and Human Services 2024; Miller 2023). Some areas of the state experience higher rates than others; the communities in […]
PrEP Focus Groups Summary Understanding Attitudes of Detroit-area Black Women toward PrEP and Its Marketing
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) engaged Public Sector Consultants(PSC) to facilitate focus groups with Detroit-area Black women to hear their thoughts on the department’supcoming Mahogany Blue campaign. The campaign is the Michigan version of the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention’s #ShesWell campaign, focused on increasing awareness about pre-exposureprophylaxis (PrEP) among Black […]
Regional Action Plan: Capital Area Child Care Coalition
This report provides a synopsis of meaningful insights PSC gathered while creating a Regional Action Plan for the Capital Area Regional Child Care Coalition.
Farm to School Institute Evaluation Report
The 2024 Farm to School Institute, a joint effort by Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency (MARESA), Partridge Creek Farm (PCF), Michigan State University Extension (MSUE), MiSTEM Network Central Region, and Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems, aimed to provide educators and community members with the skills needed to lead garden- or farm-based school […]
Talent Attraction and Retention Benchmarking Report
According to some estimates, the U.S. could be facing a talent deficit of more than six million highly skilled workers by 2030, with global talent shortages in high-growth sectors like technology.1 In other words, “the war for talent is on.”2 Data presented in the Growing Michigan Together Council’s December 2023 report highlighted Michigan’s aging population […]
Muskegon County Youth and Young Adult Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization and Connection to HealthWest Services
HealthWest provided Public Sector Consultants (PSC) data on all inpatient psychiatric hospitalizations in Muskegon County among youth and young adults 21 years of age or younger between January 1, 2015, and December 30, 2023. In addition, HealthWest provided PSC data on all youth and young adults enrolled in at least one HealthWest program during that […]
Economic Contribution Analysis: Marquette County Trails and Trail Events
Eagle Mine and the Lake Superior Community Partnership brought in PSC to estimate the direct, indirect, and induced effects of event and nonevent trail user spending on Marquette County. To conduct this analysis, PSC used Impact Analysis for Planning (IMPLAN), an input-output modeling tool that traces transactions among and between different sectors to quantify how […]
Potter Park Zoo Economic Contribution Analysis
This report contains an economic contribution analysis for Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan.
Growing Michigan’s Future
The governor’s team called on PSC to support this bipartisan group in crafting collaborative policy recommendations that support Michigan’s population growth. PSC expertly guided the group through rigorous discussion, debate, and data analysis toward a shared understanding of Michigan’s population challenges and vision of a successful future.