Coordination/Collaboration

Manzanitas Spanish Immersion Playschool in Ann Arbor.

Ann Arbor-area coalition releases reports on child care challenges and begins to consider solutions

A group of Ann Arbor-area child care providers, families, local businesses, and policymakers has produced two reports highlighting challenges for families who seek child care and those who aim to provide that care.

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The location of a future community park on Main Street in Chelsea.
This blighted Chelsea property will become a public park thanks to new public-private partnership

A community group and the city of Chelsea are moving forward on a plan that will turn a former manufacturing site in downtown Chelsea into a community asset.

CLR Academy at South Pointe Scholars in Superior Township.
Youth sports and mental health program spreads from Ypsi-Ann Arbor area to Seattle

An informal summer program for underserved youth in Superior Township has blossomed into a program blending sports, nutrition, and social-emotional learning for youth across the Ypsilanti-Ann Arbor area. 

Bjoern Penning (left), U-M professor of physics, is the principal investigator of the RENEW grant. Brianna Mount (right), associate professor of physics at Black Hills State University, is working with Penning to implement the grant.
U-M receives federal grant to engage more Indigenous, rural, and underserved students in physics

The $1.125 million grant will be split between U-M, Black Hills State University in South Dakota, and Benedictine University in Illinois.

Marisa Eisenberg, director of the Michigan Public Health Integrated Center for Outbreaks Analytics and Modeling.
U-M receives CDC grant to establish new center for disease outbreak prediction and response

The new center will be called the Michigan Public Health Integrated Center for Outbreaks Analytics and Modeling.

A promotional image for the Michigan Chocolate Festival.
Ypsi coffee shop to host local chocolate makers for inaugural Michigan Chocolate Festival

Promotional materials say the event, hosted by a Grand Rapids-based chocolate company, will offer an opportunity to "meet, greet, and eat" with a variety of Michigan-based chocolate producers.

Heather Wysor at Water Street.
Free walking tours highlight the “re-wilding” of Ypsi’s Water Street property

The 38-acre property has gained a complicated reputation due to development challenges, but some see it as a natural, educational space where native species can flourish.

Ozone House Youth Day at the Park event.
Coalition funds numerous Washtenaw County organizations to support young Black men’s mental health

A new coaliiton has led to the creation of many programs that directly address mental health in young men of color.

Cathy Thorburn leading a water exercise class at Rutherford Pool.
Ypsi’s Rutherford Pool partners with Washtenaw County to meet high demand for swim lessons

A recent collaboration has helped the pool provide more swim classes for adult beginning swimmers and inspired the county to make it easier for adults to learn a vital life skill.

Jennifer Colwell and her son Miles.
Child care is expensive and understaffed – but a new Washtenaw County coalition aims to change that

A new cross-disciplinary group of local business owners, families, child care providers, and civic organizations is working to alleviate child care challenges.

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