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Head Start Parent Utilizes Parent Training Courses For Her Child During Stay-at-Home Order
Shavawn Rozier is a parent in the Matrix Early Head Start (EHS) - Child Care Partnership (CCP) program at our Ready 2 Learn partnering center on Detroit's west side. Her daughter, Mi'cahla Rozier, has been attending the Early Head Start program for the past 2...
Matrix Human Services Facilities Team Shines During Pandemic – Delivering Essential Items to Families In Need
Since March 13th, our Head Start buildings have been shut down at Matrix, but the facilities team still has an undying commitment to our families by continuing services like security patrolling the east and west locations at least 3 times weekly. Aside from the added...
Matrix Officially Partners with The Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA) Housing Buy-Back Program
Matrix Financial Literacy Trainer, Tracy Burress, and two participants of the DLBA buy back program The Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA) "Occupied Buy Back Program" has been giving a second chance to Detroit residents who wish to own a home since 2015. Since then,...
Head Start Parent Gives Birth Early and Receives Replacement Furnace During Coronavirus
Being a recipient of our annual Angel Tree - Adopt a Family for the Holidays event and having a 2-year-old daughter in our Head Start - East Lake Center, Ms. Jasmine Mack was already in contact with our Family Advocate, Ms. Felicia Cash when she became pregnant and...
Matrix Manufacturing Bootcamp Graduate Finds Life Line During COVID-19 Pandemic
"More than two months after the coronavirus pandemic hit Detroit, nearly half of all Detroit residents have lost their job." - according to a new University of Michigan Detroit Metro Area Communities (DMACS) survey. That is double the Michigan unemployment rate and...
Matrix Head Start Continues to Serve Families At Home While School is Closed
Matrix Human Services Head Start Program is the largest Head Start Program in the city of Detroit as well as throughout the state. When schools closed across Michigan on March 16th due to COVID-19, Head Start closed as well, resulting in families spending more time at...
Matrix + Gleaners Food Distribution Day Makes News and Draws Over 500 Families
On March 20th, we held our first Food Distribution Day at The Matrix Center alongside Gleaners Community Food Bank in response to the Coronavirus crisis. We weren't sure what to expect, but that day over 300 people came to The Matrix Center while remaining in their...
Matrix Community Donation Drive Helps to Deliver Hundreds of Care Packages to Those in Need
On April 1st, we completed the 2nd day of our Community Donation Drive at our downtown office. Food from Eastern Market Partnership was organized into care packages along with donated essentials like toilet paper, diapers, wipes, toothbrushes, hand sanitizers, and...
President & CEO Brad Coulter – Our Response to Coronavirus Video Message
On March 30th, Our President and CEO, Brad Coulter, addressed our response to the Coronavirus pandemic in a video sent out on social media and our e-newsletter. Watch the video above to learn more. We have created a website dedicated to our response to...
The 2020 Census Goes Live Online
The 2020 Census is Now Live Online Fill out your census here: https://2020census.gov/en.html Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a census to determine the number of people living in the United States. In the fall of 2019, Matrix was partnering...
97.9 WJLB Detroit Radio Recognizes Director of The Matrix Center for Black History Month
On February 18th, Ken Brown, Director of The Matrix Center at 13560 E. McNichols rd. Detroit, was recognized on 97.9 WJLB Detroit Radio for being a leader in the black community, "creating positive change for Detroit"! As mentioned on the WJLB website ...
Matrix Introduces “Leaders For Readers” For National Reading Month
For National Reading Month in March, we wanted to do something special. So we created #LeadersForReaders - giving anyone the opportunity to volunteer and read to a classroom of kids at one of our Head Start Centers. This allows kids to see a fresh face and further...
Matrix Director of Adult & Senior Programs Selected For The Detroit Workforce Leadership Academy Fellowship
On Tuesday, February 25th, our Director of Adult and Senior Programs, Mr. Gregory McPherson, was selected to the Detroit Workforce Leadership Academy Fellowship. The fellowship lasts 12 months and is developed through the partnership with the Aspen Institute Economic...
Matrix Head Start Teacher Receives ‘Teacher of the Week’ Award
On a calm Thursday morning, our Matrix Head Start Salem Center was surprised when Mix 92.3 Detroit radio showed up to present Ms. Plair, a Matrix Head Start teacher of 5 years, with an award for being "Teacher of the Week." "I was kinda caught off guard a little... I...
Matrix Receives 9,000 Books for National Reading Day
Thanks to the graciousness of WXYZ-TV Channel 7 News in Detroit, The Scripps Howard Foundation, and Scholastic, Matrix Human Services received a donation of 9,000 brand new, diverse and age-appropriate children's books on National Reading Day, January 23rd. 6,000 of...
Displaced Family of Five Receives New House After Contacting Matrix Home Buyer Program
After the Taylor family was displaced when their landlord lost their house to foreclosure, Ms. Taylor decided to move the family in with her sister. It was not easy fitting herself and four children into her sister's two-bedroom flat. After receiving an email from...
Matrix Gets Spotlight On Channel 7 News
Watch the video above to see Matrix Human Services on the news! On Sunday, December 15th, 2019, ABC Channel 7...
Angel Tree 2019 Gives Holiday Gifts and Meals to Over A Hundred Families in Need
On December 14th, 2019, over one hundred families visited The Matrix Center on McNichols and Gratiot for our annual Angel Tree, holiday gift giving and food event for families who would otherwise go without during the holidays. Donors were able to meet the families...
Matrix Head Start Family Receives New Furnace Before Winter
When Munira and Khalid dropped their daughter off at Matrix Human Services Head Start for the first time, Munira couldn’t help but cry. It was literally the first time she allowed their daughter Ghaziya to be watched by someone else. Since she was born,...
Online High School Diploma Program Celebrates Last Graduating Class of 2019
The Matrix Online High School Diploma Program gives a person of any educational background the opportunity to achieve their high school diploma long after high school ends. A high school diploma is separate from a GED, so graduates will not be distinguished...
LaShawn Bridges Launches New Head Start with Help From Matrix
On Friday, October 25th, LaShawn Bridges opened a new Head Start location in an under-served area of Detroit on E. 8 Mile rd. called "Blessed Beginnings Learning Center" after years of running an Early Head Start from her own home! The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony...
Manufacturing Boot Camp Graduate Overcomes Criminal Background to Land Skilled Career in Manufacturing
Ladaisha Cotton has had her share of struggles that has kept employment further from reach than the average job seeker. With a criminal history including felonies, Ladaisha couldn’t even find work at McDonalds. Since there is no federal law that prohibits...
Matrix Home Buyer Program Assists Man Living Without Running Water for 2 Years
Meet Albert, who for decades, was living in a home previously owned by his aunt but was lost to tax foreclosure because of a job loss. Because of financial circumstances, Albert lived without running water in the home for about two years due to a shut off. Growing up...
The Incredible Survival Story of Leslie Guinn
“I had a compound fracture of my tibia from an auto-mobile accident in.. early 80’s, and I was told back then, that next morning when I came-to in the hospital, that I had a compound fracture of my tibia, I’d been hit by a car… ‘oh, and you’re HIV positive.’” The...
Matrix Career Coach Ron Norwood Selected As 2019 Detroit Humanity in Action Fellow
We are proud to announce that our Adult and Senior Division Career Coach, Ron Norwood, has been selected as a Fellow for the 2019 Detroit Humanity in Action Fellowship program, taking place from November 15th - 24th. The 2019 Humanity in Action...