Congratulations Veandrea Brown! Veandrea is the Senior Education Manager in our Early Head Start Child Care Partnership Department. Her shown commitment to seeking opportunities to continuously gain knowledge in her field exemplifies the Matrix Human Services core...
Head Start Parent Becomes Head Start Teacher
"Life before Matrix was a little rough" - Maria Garica-Nava, Matrix Human Services Head Start Teacher When Maria looks back on the changes that have happened in her life since learning about Matrix Human Services, it's hard for her to believe. About five years ago,...
Family Living In Hotel Receive Holiday Gifts From Matrix Staff
Ms. Ford is a mother of three boys in Detroit and has been managing to get through one of the most difficult periods of her life ever since COVID-19 disrupted everything. While working as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Ms. Ford gave birth to two healthy twin boys...
Head Start Family On Verge of Eviction Receives Rent Assistance
Up until 2021, life was relatively smooth for the Williams family. Dad was working for Great Lakes Water Authority as a technician while Mom took care of her daughters, the youngest of which was born at the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the...
Head Start Family Survives Pandemic With Help From Matrix
*The names in this story have been changed for confidentiality When Bernice and her husband Ricardo decided to move to Michigan in 2019 with their two children, they could not have predicted the challenges that would lie ahead. After they began work in the same...
Eagle Scout Donates 10,000 Diapers and 9,000 wipes to Matrix
In March of 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, then 16-year-old Junior in high school and Eagle Scout, Brady Bank, visited Matrix Human Services to see how he could help. While there, he learned about the need for diapers and wipes, items that were...
Matrix Human Services Impact Report 2020
Our 2020 Impact Report Video highlights the challenges and successes we experienced during an unprecedented year. We moved over 500 employees to virtual services, purchased over 800 tablets so children and youth could learn from home, expanded our food distribution...
Family of 4 Receives Angel Tree Holiday Gift Boxes For the Whole Family
Jasmine discovered Matrix Human Services in late 2018, when her then 1-year-old daughter began attending our Head Start Birth-to-5 Program at our Plymouth location, one of 16 Head Start Centers exclusively operated by Matrix Human Services in the city of Detroit. As a...
Mother of 4 Receives a ‘Hand Up’ From Matrix During COVID-19 Pandemic
Ms. Shannon is a mother of 4 who has been through an especially challenging year. Before 2020, Shannon was working at General Motors in Detroit but suddenly found herself laid-off, while she was pregnant. After she gave birth to two healthy baby twins, she enrolled...
Matrix Provides Extra Food Distributions to Head Start Families During Pandemic
In November, Matrix Human Services partnered with Atlas Wholesale Food Company, Wayne Metro Community Action Agency, and Renaissance Head Start to fill a need that many of our Head Start families were missing - food. Our Head Start families used to count on the...
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For information about Matrix Human Services, please send an email indicating your area(s) of interest to inquiries@matrixhs.org or use our contact form.
Matrix Human Services Central Office is located at:
1400 Woodbridge, Detroit MI 48207
Our normal hours of operation are
Monday – Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm.
(313) 831-1000
(313) 831-4634 (fax)
For up to date information on any of our Matrix Head Start centers or for enrollment, please call (313) 962-5255
Please visit the program pages for individual program contact and location information.