New collaborations with community groups and an expansion into Ypsilanti's Riverside Park are just a few new elements of the ypsiGLOW celebration, which will take place on Oct. 29.
Organizers say the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need to reexamine childcare issues, such as the challenge of affordability and long wait lists, that many local parents currently face.
Eight Ypsilanti-area writers who exemplify the values of community writing lab YpsiWrites – including Concentrate's own Sarah Rigg – have been named to the lab’s Writers of Ypsilanti cohort for 2021.
"Our country’s educational system was inequitable before, and it still is," says Cindy Eggleton of Brilliant Detroit. "COVID-19 has given us an opportunity to rethink systems, and I’m wondering if we are rethinking enough? As not-for-profits, organizations and people, I take seriously our responsibility to turn this not-so-great thing into an opportunity to look deeply at how systems work in order to better serve kids and families."
Washtenaw Community College students will host a week-long esports fundraiser Oct. 3-9 to purchase gaming carts for patients at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.
The event is made possible due to a partnership between Ypsilanti-based nonprofit Hero Nation and the annual free event called Bold Futures.
“When something interrupts your program, you still have to go forward, whether you go around it, above it, through it – whatever you need to do,” Kris Marshall, Winning Futures.
A University of Michigan program is providing teachers much-needed support to implement social-emotional learning in the classroom.
Our House and HouseN2Home worked together to furnish a three-story home for foster care youth ages 16-19.
The Calhoun Intermediate School District's Shaping Positive Lifestyles and Attitudes through School Health (SPLASH) programming has inspired healthy changes in the classroom, students' homes, and schoolyards.
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