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Starfish’s Parenthood Program Guides Teen Parents to a Positive Future
By Renee Summers, Telegram Newspaper, Published Dec. 27, 2018 Being a parent is a full-time job. It's not an easy one, and these days there are many who simply walk away from the responsibility. But take heart; there are those who are up to the challenge. Just ask Starfish Family Service's Susan Powers. Starfish Family Services is a non-profit agency which has been helping parents and families since 1963. Its mission states, "Strengthening families to create brighter futures for children." Powers works out of the agency's Dearborn Offices and manages and organizes The Parenthood Program, aimed at pregnant and parenting teenagers. Powers admits that she herself was a teen mom years ago and that it wasn't easy. "I talk from experience, you know, I've been there, I know the challenges that you face," she says. Powers uses her experience to reach other young girls (and yes, a few boys), enabling them to see that parenthood can be very fulfilling. "I felt like I could have an impact," she … [Read more...]
Crain’s Best-Managed Nonprofit 2018
About the program Data is key to helping nonprofits measure and communicate their impact and to making strategic decisions about where best to invest scarce resources. But it’s not always easy to figure out how to measure intangible things like a child’s well-being, overall development and likelihood of succeeding in college. The co-winners of the 2018 Best-Managed Nonprofit contest are doing exactly that. This year, judges chose to lift up both a larger-budget nonprofit and a smaller nonprofit for the steps they are taking to get their arms around their data and use it in meaningful ways to better meet their missions. Midnight Golf has launched two new data systems over the past year. One is aimed at keeping track of the growing number of high school seniors and college students it’s supporting. The other helps track its donors and their interests, while also providing a source of internship possibilities for the students it serves. Starfish Family Services is bringing data … [Read more...]
Riley: One-stop shop helps children cope with trauma in metro Detroit
Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 a.m. ET Oct. 14, 2018 Dr. Maria Muzik, an Associate Professor in the University of Michigan's Department of Psychiatry, left, chats with Mary Ludtke from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 at the opening of the new Starfish Partnering with Parents Center in Dearborn. (Photo: Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press) Imagine being the parent of a child whose needs are many and may include physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and psychological counseling to deal with trauma. Now imagine that you, the parent of that child, must take your child to different places all over the county for each of those services, whether you have the transportation, time off work -- or money to make it happen. Now imagine that you are that child. And you’re 5 years old. And you to go to all of those places while also going to school. If you can’t feel the sheer frustration and pain of that … [Read more...]
New cradle-to-career educational partnership to serve more than 1,000 Detroit children on Marygrove campus
The former Liberal Arts building on the Marygrove campus. Space in the building will be renovated for student and faculty use. Organizations gathered at the Marygrove College campus today to announce a new cradle-to-career educational partnership including a state-of-the-art early childhood education center, a new K-12 school and the introduction of an innovative teacher education training modeled after hospital residency programs. The P-20 Partnership – one of the first in the nation – is backed with a $50 million commitment from The Kresge Foundation, marking the largest philanthropic investment in history into a Detroit neighborhood. The investment places education at the center of community revitalization efforts in the Livernois-McNichols district in northwest Detroit. In addition to construction of a new early childhood education center, the Kresge commitment will renovate the former Bates Academy (originally Immaculata High School) on the Marygrove campus to house the … [Read more...]
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