PreK for All a good way to disrupt the preschool-to-prison pipeline
Good preschool programs yield tremendous social and economic advantages such as higher high school graduation rates and reduced chances of criminal behavior.
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“Society tells me that I can’t live anywhere and people want to extort me.”
The struggles are many for people leaving the prison system, but Friends of Returning Citizens (FORC) is there to help for juvenile lifers and others on probation, paroled or recently released from a Michigan prison.
Giving the community influence and power
There is no conversation that Dr. Chanel Hampton, CEO and founder of Strategic Community Partners, fears. In a post-pandemic landscape, she's a powerful voice for the continued empowerment of Detroit's Black communities.
Partner Partner Content How addressing social and economic factors can help close the gap in Detroit’s health equity
"It's not enough to treat someone for a disease or help a mother grieve a lost infant," says Phyllis Meadows, a senior fellow at The Kresge Foundation's Detroit Program. "We need to look at all the economical, social, and relational stressors that contributed."
Partner Partner Content Circle Forest restoration clears a path for community growth in Detroit’s Poletown East
"There's an expression that goes, you can't see the forest for the trees. Well, we couldn't see the forest for the garbage," says Andrew "Birch" Kemp, president of Arboretum Detroit and part of the clean-up crew restoring Circle Forest.
