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Mother of 4 Receives a ‘Hand Up’ From Matrix During COVID-19 Pandemic

Jan 28, 2021 | Adults, Family, Featured, Matrix Head Start, Matrix Mission, News, Parents, Poverty, The Matrix Center

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...

10 Year Old Thrives in Matrix Youth Services Program

Jan 22, 2021 | Family, Featured, Matrix Mission, News, Parents, Success Story, Youth, Youth & Family

Brooklyn Fordham resides with her grandmother in the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects and has been working with Matrix staff since our Youth Assistance Program (YAP) was hosted at the Peter Claver Building. As Brooklyn’s grandmother, Ms. Fordham, describes,...

Family In Need Receives Heat and Hope From Matrix

Jan 13, 2021 | Adult Programs, Adults, Family, Featured, Health Screenings, Matrix Mission, News, Preventative Health, Seniors, The Matrix Center

Ms. Thelma and her daughter Janlissa have faced difficult circumstances ever since they were forced to relocate from a rental property that was being torn out 4 years ago. However, the new rental home that they share together has been plagued with issues. “The...

Long-Time Matrix Supporter Continues Annual Donations During Coronavirus

Jan 4, 2021 | Adults, Family, Featured, Matrix Mission, News, Seniors

Mrs. Shirley Patterson has been donating brand new clothes, toys, and other valuables to Matrix Human Services for more than 15 years.  Director of The Matrix Center, Mr. Ken Brown, remembers meeting Ms. Patterson in 2005 when she began donating around the holidays to...

About Matrix Human Services

Detroit-based Matrix Human Services is a 116-year-old, 501(c) (3), social services organization committed to helping children, teens, adults, and seniors reach self-sufficiency through offering positive hand-up life experiences. Matrix is helping to rebuild Detroit’s neighborhoods through the efforts of over 550 employees at more than 50 program locations throughout the city. As one of the largest non-profits in Southeast Michigan, Matrix currently provides assistance to more than 20,000 people annually by offering essential needs, education, and supportive services that defuse crises, treat individuals and family problems, prevent abuse and neglect.

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