Rebirth of The Youth
Youth Programs
The Detroit Youth Choir
The choir is a program that helps the kids to get involved and develop their creative skills. They teach the kids how to sing with proper tone, master stage presence, and to use professional dance methods. The requirements to join the choir include:
The choir is a program that helps the kids to get involved and develop their creative skills. They teach the kids how to sing with proper tone, master stage presence, and to use professional dance methods. The requirements to join the choir include:
- Students must have a grade point average of 2.5 or better.
- Must be able to match pitch.
- Must be on time to all rehearsals.
- Must be between the ages of 8 and 18 years of age.
- Must be willing to travel.
- Must be eager to perform.
- Students must attend all scheduled rehearsals.
- Students must maintain a positive attitude and an open mind
To learn more click here.
Big Brothers Big Sisters Program
The Big Brother Big Sister program provides mentoring and help to middle school-aged kids so they can better prepare for high school and adulthood. Their mission is to provide children facing adversity with safe, strong, and enduring one-to-one relationships with adults they can trust and be friends with. They serve nearly 1,000 youth annually with site and community based mentoring programs.
"Our vision is to see all children succeed in life. And, we believe that mentoring provides a pathway to hope."
The Big Brother Big Sister program provides mentoring and help to middle school-aged kids so they can better prepare for high school and adulthood. Their mission is to provide children facing adversity with safe, strong, and enduring one-to-one relationships with adults they can trust and be friends with. They serve nearly 1,000 youth annually with site and community based mentoring programs.
"Our vision is to see all children succeed in life. And, we believe that mentoring provides a pathway to hope."
Development Centers
The Development Center has development workshops on peer relations, conflict resolution, academic enrichment, leadership, goal setting, life skills, and college and career readiness. This program also offers weekly individual and group counseling sessions and monthly grief, loss and trauma support sessions. Their goal is to address the full spectrum of needs for the whole youth population. Some programs they have include:
The Development Center has development workshops on peer relations, conflict resolution, academic enrichment, leadership, goal setting, life skills, and college and career readiness. This program also offers weekly individual and group counseling sessions and monthly grief, loss and trauma support sessions. Their goal is to address the full spectrum of needs for the whole youth population. Some programs they have include:
- Early Childhood Services: Provide a full range of prevention, early intervention and treatment services for families with young children from pregnancy through age five.
- School Based Program: Provide a continuum of care aimed at addressing barriers to learning.
- PATH Job Placement Assistance: (Partnership Accountability Training Hope) Provides a more effective means for consumers to obtain the basic hiring preparation and hands-on training experiences.
- Dream BELIEVE Achieve: Provide programs that will help kids to overcome the cognitive, social, emotional, behavioral and environmental barriers to a child's healthy growth.
- Thrive by Five: Provide early head start and heat start programming that will benefit infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers, pregnant women and young families.
Clark Park Coalition
The Clark Park Coalition have programs that include everything from sports to blogging and photo-journalism. They provide positive youth development opportunities and expands student literacy for middle and high school students. They get the youth involved in recreational social activities that will help them grow into responsible, self-confident adults.
The Clark Park Coalition have programs that include everything from sports to blogging and photo-journalism. They provide positive youth development opportunities and expands student literacy for middle and high school students. They get the youth involved in recreational social activities that will help them grow into responsible, self-confident adults.
If you would like to learn more about the Detroit youth programs or get involved and help you can click here to go to the Detroit youth programs website.
School Programs
Mad Science Program
The Mad Science Program offers hands-on activities that engage the kids and get them interested in science while at the same time having fun. They do hands-on activities, watch demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions and take home things that they have made themselves. The program is an hour long but it offers multiple different topics to learn about. There are 9 different series you can choose from and each have 6 one-hour classes in them. The 9 series are:
The Mad Science Program offers hands-on activities that engage the kids and get them interested in science while at the same time having fun. They do hands-on activities, watch demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions and take home things that they have made themselves. The program is an hour long but it offers multiple different topics to learn about. There are 9 different series you can choose from and each have 6 one-hour classes in them. The 9 series are:
- Crazy Chemworks
- NASA Academy of Future Space Explorers
- Sense-ational Science
- Junior Forensics Lab
- Mad Magical Mysteries
- Extreme Science
- Super Science Explorations
- Energy, Motion & Nature
- Dynamic Discoveries
21st Century After School Program
The 21st Century After School Program is for students who attend high-poverty and low performing schools. They primarily focus on students in grades 4 through 8. This program is year round and provides tutoring, enrichment activities, and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities. Some enrichment activities include:
The 21st Century After School Program is for students who attend high-poverty and low performing schools. They primarily focus on students in grades 4 through 8. This program is year round and provides tutoring, enrichment activities, and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities. Some enrichment activities include:
- art
- music
- recreation
- youth development
- character development
- technology education
- drug and violence prevention.
Detroit Fun Bus
The Detroit Fun Bus is a nonprofit organization that is free for all kids. It takes the kids to and from their after school programs and home safely at the end of the day. Their goal is increased engagement, showing kids that there is a world outside of their neighborhood. On the bus is a supervisor, or "conductor" that helps kids with homework and then walks them to their door once they get home. There is no set bus route, because some kids ride the bus every day while others just ride it once a week. The bus picks up kids from different schools and then drops them off directly at their houses, so each day with different kids the bus has to go to different places.
The Detroit Fun Bus is free for all kids so that means the bus company is only up and running with donations from the community and others willing to help out. If they do not get the money the buses will stop running and there will be no more safe and reliable transportation for the kids. If you would like to learn more or make donations to help out click here to get to the Detroit Fun Bus website.
The Detroit Fun Bus is a nonprofit organization that is free for all kids. It takes the kids to and from their after school programs and home safely at the end of the day. Their goal is increased engagement, showing kids that there is a world outside of their neighborhood. On the bus is a supervisor, or "conductor" that helps kids with homework and then walks them to their door once they get home. There is no set bus route, because some kids ride the bus every day while others just ride it once a week. The bus picks up kids from different schools and then drops them off directly at their houses, so each day with different kids the bus has to go to different places.
The Detroit Fun Bus is free for all kids so that means the bus company is only up and running with donations from the community and others willing to help out. If they do not get the money the buses will stop running and there will be no more safe and reliable transportation for the kids. If you would like to learn more or make donations to help out click here to get to the Detroit Fun Bus website.
The Movement
New Era Detroit (N.E.D)
This organization was formed to bring Black unity within growing black communities. Their focus is to empower and encourage Black residents in the city of Detroit and around the world to buy, build, invest and get involved in the communities that they live in. Their slogan is, "One man, One woman, One child, One Community at a time until we are One UNITED Race!"
In 2016 the community activist group released a Street Code, that has a list of rules the community should follow that will help with the crime in Detroit. The list includes:
- No drive-bys. Too many black babies are being killed from random drive-bys. These random shootings already took the lives of several black babies. This must stop. There is nothing gangsta about babies and children being killed. Drive-by shootings from here on out will make you public enemy No. 1 throughout the entire city.
- All rapist and child molesters in the community must be turned in and dealt with immediately. We cannot allow rapists in the community preying on our women. That can be your mother, sister or daughter. Sexual assault committed against our women and children will not be tolerated in our communities.
- Concerts and parties are neutral territories: No shooting. Too often innocent people get killed at parties and not the actual target. Handle your beefs at your own risk in your own space.
- Respect the elders, any harm or violence towards the elderly is a serious violation. Elders are harmless and defenseless; attacking them is the same as attacking a baby and will also result in you becoming public enemy No. 1 throughout the entire city.
- Respect. If no one has done anything to you, show them the love and give them respect.
- All beefs must be handled away from school grounds, churches and businesses. Once again it is imperative that we leave innocent people out of beefs.
- Know who your enemy is, deal directly with them and nobody else.
- No slinging to the children or pregnant women. That's genocide on our people.
- Do not shoot any victims of robbery. There is nothing more cowardly than robbing someone, getting what you want out of them then shooting them after you got what you wanted.
- Enforce and honor the Street Code. Make our streets honorable, respected and true to the game.