Educate Youth has been making a change in the community:
We’re honored to be featured by Michigan Afterschool Partnership (MASP) in All in Michigan ~ After School for Every Child and Highlighted by A2Ethics for our impact!
A powerful testament to our students’ hard work and the success of our program.
MASP: masp-site.webflow.io
A2Ethics: linkedin.com/company/a2ethics.org
Ann Arbor Family Magazine: https://annarborfamily.com/columns/tweens/rising-ambition-educate-youth-supports-academic-and-emotional-growth/
Jaishree Drepaul (2024)
Voices of Youth: Ypsi clubhouse offers a safe place for youth to learn and grow after school
Creating an empowering environment – where kids can learn about themselves, the world, and the skills they need to thrive in it – means meeting them where they are.
Sometimes that means noticing a student’s worn-out shoes, and then making a new pair in their size “magically appear.” Other times it means giving a student a needed, culturally appropriate shampoo.
We listen, we watch, we hear what’s going on in the community. The place where the building that we’re located is called the Clubhouse. It’s a safer place. The students come in, and they feel free for whatever the amount of time that they’re here. They feel safer to be themselves, to be their genuine selves. And, with that, they talk. They know that people are going to be here to listen to them. They know that people are going to be here to just sit with them no matter what’s going on.
David Fair (2023)
‘They’re not the enemy.’ Program aims to improve youth-police relations in Ypsilanti
High schooler Kiki Owens thinks conversations with law enforcement can be “very awkward — but, ultimately enlightening.
Grace Tucker (2023)
‘A sense of hope’: Ypsilanti teen helps create mural to honor murder victims
“The police department came out there, crime intervention, they had access to talk to the youth, and stuff like that, to come up with ideas to stop violence in our community,” Chambers said. “The very next day, I came up with a rose. Me not knowing that my rose would get recognition.”
Brandon Hudson (2022)
Sarah Rigg (2022)
Voices of Youth: 3 things local youth wish adults knew about non-binary and trans identities
At Ypsilanti-based after-school program Educate Youth, creating an accepting environment for trans and non-binary young people is standard practice, and has been for a decade. So is sharing pronouns as part of introducing oneself.
Curtis Wallace along side Educate Youth was recently recognized by “Under The Radar” for our work on the mural in downtown Ypsilanti!
2021 Virtual Bowl Team Theme Song Winner
The 2021 Best Team Theme Song contest was won by the Ypsilanti Youth team for their original songwriting and imaginative production, “Stuck in the Crib,”
(A2Ethics.org, 2022)
Ypsi nonprofit creates hip-hop video about COVID-19 safety made by teens, for teens
To help reinforce safety messages about staying home and washing your hands, the group recently recorded a hip-hop video with help from Ypsilanti’s Grove Studios, called “Stuck in the Crib.”
(Sara Riggs, 2020)
Ypsi-based nonprofit releases collection of young people’s poetry, “Spiritual Warriors”
From processing a brother’s death to reflecting on life as a woman of color, students in the Ypsilanti-based nonprofit Educate Youth‘s after-school program captured the tumult of 2020 in a new booklet of poetry called “Spiritual Warriors.”
(Sarah Rigg, 2021)
Ypsilanti ‘glow in the dark teen party’ aimed at stopping violence
Dedicated to Making a Change is located at 104 South Huron St. in Ypsilanti. On Saturday, August 1 they are hosting a party for teens with support from the Ypsilanti Police Department.
(Walsworth, 2015)
Ypsilanti Youth Summit looks to address problems facing teens in community
A coalition of multiple youth organizations will be at Eastern Michigan University’s College of Business Saturday for the first-ever Ypsilanti Youth Summit.(Preston, 2015)
Prevent and Prevail was featured in Between the Lines.
Find the article here.
Amid crises, Michigan professor mentors ‘Spiritual Warriors’
Toward the beginning of 2020, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, Richard Thomas of Ann Arbor, Michigan, began volunteering with a group of mostly Black high school students at an after-school program in nearby Ypsilanti called Educate Youth. (Bahai.US, 2021)
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