{"id":6,"date":"2022-07-02T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mi211stage.wpengine.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:48:24","slug":"find-help","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mi211stage.wpengine.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan 211"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"find-help lazyload\" style=\"background-image:inherit;\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/mi211stage.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lighthouse_0-1-1.jpg)\">\n  <div class=\"basic__body\">\n    <div class=\"region--full-width search--background\">\n      <div class=\"container gutter\" id=\"service-search\">\n        <h2 class=\"heading\">Let&#8217;s find the help you need<\/h2>\n        <p class=\"subheading\">\n          Search our database of over 27,000 programs for Michiganders\n        <\/p>\n        <cie-service-search label-color=\"white\"><\/cie-service-search>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <script>\n\t  const baseUrl = window.location.origin;\n      const componentBaseURl = getComponentBaseURL(baseUrl)\n\t  console.log(\"cie-service-search.umd.js\")\n      var script_search = document.createElement('script');\n      script_search.setAttribute('src',`https:\/\/${componentBaseURl}.mi211.org\/cie-service-search.umd.js`);\n      document.head.appendChild(script_search);\n\n      function scrollWin() {\n        let pageHeight = window.innerHeight;\n        window.scrollTo({\n          top: pageHeight,\n          left: 0,\n          behavior: \"smooth\",\n        });\n      }\n      const url = window.location.href;\n      \/\/ Word Press will rewrite the '&' symbol as its character reference '&#38;'\n      \/\/ This rewrite will break the URL\n      \/\/ So we will create our own param parsing rather than using the standard '?' 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