"You've got to go through it to get to it," says Ebony, a parent volunteer at the Salem Center. Before Matrix, Ebony had been working long hours K-Mart. She liked her job, but as a mother of 7 she struggled to make ends meet. "I wanted to spend...
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Once a Volunteer Now a Matrix Team Member!
Susan was once a client seeking the very assistance that she now provides others. After finding herself pregnant at a very young age, she dropped out of college and began working as an office manager to provide for her son. Seven years later,...
Matrix CPR training helps to save a young life
On February 1, 2018, Rozetia Jenkins, a Matrix Head Start Building Associate at our Pathways Head Start center, heard a disturbance down the hallway. A two-month-old infant of a teen enrolled in a separate Pathways program, was choking and turning blue. A...
Mario’s Story
Mario is four. He loves going to school and looks forward to seeing his friends. He is especially fond of his teacher Talia. Mario also has spina bifida and faces some serious challenges. With no strength in his legs, he is only mobile by way of...
Abigail’s story
Imagine you're a mother with two small daughters both under the age of five and you've been forced to move your family from house to house, over and over again, and there's no end to this scenario in sight. Imagine your family has been uprooted so many times,...
Pathways to Success
Pathways to Success June 14th,2017 marked an important date for the new graduates at Pathways. This is the day they received special recognition from Matrix and were awarded certificates for their completion of high school. What makes this day so important is not only...
Free. Effective. And Underenrolled.
Why is Head Start, the federal government’s ambitious program for young kids, struggling to fill all of its seats? The December 2016 Slate article highlights Matrix Head Start and details many challenges Head Start programs across the city of Detroit must...
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