Your Health. Your Path.

Empowering Lansing individuals on their personal journey to wellness. With direct peer support, healthcare navigation, community education, and system advocacy, Grassroots Groundwork gives you the tools and freedom to define your own recovery.

Our programs

Supportive Programs & Services

At Grassroots Groundwork, our programs are designed to empower your personal recovery journey—through peer connection, healthcare navigation, community education, and practical support initiatives. Here’s how we walk alongside you:

Mutual Support

Mental Health Peer Support Services Community Health Worker Services COMING SOON: Short term Peer Support residential service.

Medical Mutual Aid

Meetups for addressing commonly unmet healthcare needs. Whether you have your own healthcare need or want to discuss the needs of others in your community, we offer space for brainstorming and getting direct advice by a healthcare navigator.

Planting Seeds

For members of the community as well as professionals, qualifies for CEUs. Recognize the signs that somebody may be considering suicide, establish a dialogue, and guide them to seek the help suitable to their needs.

Peer Support

Peers are people with lived experience of having mental illness and who have succeeded in achieving recovery (which means different things for different people). Peers get initial and ongoing classroom training, certification, and on-the-job training.

Founder

Frances Kanous

Addressing health issues is a deeply personal and self-driven journey. We know that and leaders in health science know that. So how can individuals choose their path if the system provides them such limited choices?

GG envisions a future where individuals have access to the tools and options for care that will fulfill their own vision of health and recovery.

We are dedicated to offering direct services that motivate and guide locals to discovering what their path is. But our work does not stop there; we are advocating for system reform, developing new health care options, and educating those who deliver care.

It’s your health. How can we help?

Our sponsors

Contributors to Our Work

We are fiscally sponsored by WCGL. They provide invaluable support to our organization. And due to their support, any donations made to our organization are tax deductible.

Support Grassroots

Interested in supporting our mission? The area we need the most support is for our project, The Nest. Visit our facebook page or donation page to help us reach our programmatic goals.

Grassroots Groundwork is fiscally sponsored though The Women’s Center of Greater Lansing. All donations are tax deductible.