Flint Registry Partners
D riven by the practices and principles of community-partnered work, the Flint Registry was designed, built, and implemented to include and elevate community voices. Components of this community-engaged strategy included, but were not limited to, establishing a community advisory board, conducting focus groups, creating a parent partners group, integrating a youth advisory council (Flint Youth Justice League), hiring and training community members physically located in Flint, hosting community events, developing a community ambassador program, collecting pre-enrollment feedback, obtaining Community Ethics Review Board (CERB) approval, recruiting and hiring a Director of Community Implementation and Engagement, conducting robust grassroots community outreach, and more!
Co-chaired by Dr. Lawrence Reynolds and Kenyetta Dotson, the Flint Registry Community Advisory Board promotes communication between residents, parents, public agencies, and schools to facilitate input, increase community awareness, and coordinate activities to benefit those served by the Flint Registry. Flint Registry Community Advisory Board members represent fifteen key sectors of the Flint Community: faith, workforce development, seniors, education, academia, organized labor, non-profit, government, philanthropy, media, health care, behavioral health, parents, youth, and law enforcement. Community Advisory Board members meet regularly to provide guidance and feedback on all aspects of the Flint Registry, including implementation, outreach, marketing, and dissemination.
Our Partners
The Flint Registry works with dozens of other grassroots, local, state, and national partners.
- Arab American Heritage Council
- Blue Cross Complete
- Boys and Girls Club of Greater Flint
- Brennan Senior Center
- Carriage Town Ministries
- Catholic Charities Center for Hope
- Child Care Network
- Children’s Integrated Services (formerly Neurodevelopmental Center of Excellence)
- City of Flint
- Communication Access Center
for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Crim Fitness Foundation
- Eastside Mission
- Epic Systems
- Fair Food Network
- Flint and Genesee Literacy Network
- Flint Community Schools
- Flint Neighborhoods United
- Flint Public Library
- Flint Strive
- Genesee Community Health
Access Program - Genesee County Community Action Resource Department
- Genesee County Health Department
- Genesee County Medical Society
- Genesee District Libraries
- Genesee Health Plan
- Genesee Health System
- Genesee Intermediate School District
- Genesee Shiawassee Thumb Michigan Works
- Greater Flint Health Coalition
- Greater Holy Temple
- Hamilton Community Health Network
- Hasselbring Senior Center
- Health Alliance Plan
- Hurley Food FARMacy
- Hurley Medical Center
- Kettering University
- LatinX Community Center
- Mass Transportation Authority
- Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
- Michigan Health Information Network
- Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative
- Michigan State University Biomedical Research Informatics Core
- Michigan State University Extension
- Mott Community College
- National Kidney Foundation of Michigan
- Neighborhood Engagement Hub
- Network for Public Health Law
- Oak Street Health
- Reverence Home Health and Hospice
- St. Luke’s N.E.W. Life Center
- United Way of Genesee County
- University of California San Francisco
- University of Michigan Child Health and Evaluation Research Center
- University of Michigan-Flint
- University of Michigan Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
- Valley Area Agency on Aging
- Wellness Services
- Young Men’s Christian Association
- Young Women’s Christian Association
- Youth Quest
Flint Registry Community Advisory Board
The Community Advisory Board seeks to promote communication between residents, parents, public agencies, schools, etc. to facilitate input, increase community awareness, and coordinate activities to benefit those served by the Flint Registry.
| Member Name | Affiliation | Sector |
| Aurora Saucedo | Michigan United | Community |
| Bishop Bernadel Jefferson | Faith Deliverance Center | Faith-Based |
| Carma Lewis | Flint Neighborhoods United | Community |
| Craig Coney | Retired GST Michigan Works! | Workforce Development |
| Debra Morgan | Valley Area Agency on Aging | Seniors |
| Kelvin Jones II | Flint Community Schools | Education |
| Theresa Miracle | Communication Access Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing | Community |
| E. Yvonne Lewis | Healthy Flint Research Coordinating Center | Academia |
| Gerri Hall | Retired UAW | Organized Labor |
| Jamie-Lee Venable | United Way of Genesee County | Non-Profit |
| Kenyetta Dotson | Michigan State University | Co-Chair |
| Kirk Smith | Greater Flint Health Coalition | Co-Primary Investigator |
| Lawrence Reynolds, M.D. | At-Large | Co-Chair |
| Lynn Williams | Community Foundation of Greater Flint | Philanthropy |
| Michael Freeman | Genesee County Land Bank | Non-Profit |
| Mike Woolfolk | NBC25/FOX66 | Media |
| Mona Hanna-Attisha, M.D. | Michigan State University- Hurley Medical Center, Pediatric Public Health Initiative | Primary Investigator (PI) |
| Nicole Jones | Michigan State University | Co-Primary Investigator |
| Pastor Ralphael Read | Mt. Carmel Baptist Church | Faith-Based |
| Pete Levine | Genesee County Medical Society | Health Care |
| Robert Brown | Michigan State University | Parents |
| Psalm Bingham | Youth Advisory Council | Youth |
| Samarura Abernathy | Youth Advisory Council | Youth |
| Tanya Jefferson | Catholic Charities | Non-Profit |
| Theresa Stephens-Lock | Mott Community College | Law Enforcement |
| Tricia Hill | Genesee Intermediate School District | Education |
Youth Advisory Board
Directors: Kenyetta Dotson and Dr. Kent Key
Mission: To provide a youth perspective and a voice to guide the direction and activities of the Pediatric Public Health Initiative through effective community engagement.
Vision: To ensure that all youth in Flint are engaged and empowered to become future leaders to serve the community.
Parent Partners Advisory Board
The PPHI Parent Partners Group includes parents (mothers and fathers), caregivers, grandparents, and foster parents of children exposed to the Flint water system – real parents with real stories and experiences. The group meets quarterly but also participates in special Flint Registry events. Several of our parent partners also serve as outreach ambassadors who help inform their communities about the Flint Registry.
Flint Registry External Advisory Board
The Flint Registry External Advisory Board is comprised of lead experts, environmental and climate justice professionals, public health professionals, epidemiologists, and pediatricians. The external advisory board has been an integral part of the planning and implementation phases. The board meets twice a year but is readily available to provide support and guidance year-round.
External Advisory Board members: Dr. Philip Landrigan, Pediatrician/Epidemiologist and Dean of Global Health and Professor of Pediatrics and Environmental Medicine in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Dr. Jennifer Lowry, Pediatrician and Toxicologist/Current Chair of the Council on Environmental Health for the American Academy of Pediatrics; The World Trade Center Health Registry Team; Moustafa Ali, Former Head of the Environmental Justice Program at the Environmental Protection Agency; Jacqui Patterson, Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, Outreach Project Associate for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Research Coordinator for Johns Hopkins University.