Community Development

"Engaging With Democracy Through Writing" project contributors Angelica Esquivel and Melissa Brooks-Yip.

Ypsi org creates resources for “Engaging With Democracy Through Writing”

As the 2024 election cycle brings up complicated emotions for many, a new project from the nonprofit YpsiWrites offers innovative resources for "Engaging With Democracy Through Writing."

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Parents indicated that needed services like speech therapy, occupational therapy, and paraprofessional support were inadequate.
Survey activates education advocacy for Michigan children with disabilities

Special Education Experience (SEE) survey results revealed that needed improvements in special education that the state identified in 2014 have not been made.  

A performance of "Fight Night."
Play the game show of politics in this Belgian theater piece coming to Ann Arbor

Theater company Ontroerend Goed will bring the acclaimed show "Fight Night," in which audience members vote actors offstage, to Ann Arbor.

Students and mentors from the 2024 Voices of Youth Freedom School program.
Voices of Youth: How do Ypsi kids perceive their community?

In this installment of our Voices of Youth series, Voices of Youth Freedom School project editor Aaron Foley reflects on what he learned about how Freedom School students perceive the Ypsilanti community.

Voices of Youth Freedom School organizers, guest speakers, and students. Aaron Foley, the author of this story, is pictured at far left.
Voices of Youth: Where are kids getting their news? (Hint: It’s not TikTok.)

During Concentrate’s Voices of Youth Freedom School summer program, we asked young participants where they get their news – and the results were surprising.

Flyers for the Divot Dash 5K and Food Truck Warz.
5K and food truck rally coming to Ypsi Township golf course

Ypsilanti Township will host a family-friendly fun run and food truck rally Oct. 5 to showcase amenities on the north side of the township.

Ypsilanti's Prospect Park.
Residents seek to restore native plant garden at former lake in Ypsi’s Prospect Park

Many Ypsilanti residents don't know that the tangle of shrubs, saplings, and wildflowers in Prospect Park was once a showcase crescent-shaped pond and, decades later, a native plant garden. 

Student writer Aya Ibarisha interviews social worker Justin Harper for this story.
Voices of Youth: Are video games making or breaking our children’s minds?

In this installment of our Voices of Youth series, student writer Aya Ibarisha examines the issue of video game addiction among children.

Father and son Bambo Oluwadare (right) and Akin Oluwadare (left), and their nonprofit Odindi Youth Action Village, have spearheaded the renovation of West Willow Park alongside the New West Willow Neighborhood Association.
West Willlow Park renovation breaks ground in Ypsi Township

For the past two years, the Ypsilanti-based nonprofit Odindi Youth Action Village has collaborated with the New West Willow Neighborhood Association to develop a renovation plan for West Willow Park.

The first day of school at the new YCMS location.
Ypsi middle school relocates, expanding facilities and programming

As of Monday, Aug. 26, Ypsilanti Community Middle School's new home is the former Willow Run Middle School's 175,000-square-foot campus at 235 Spencer Lane in Ypsilanti Township. 

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