Head Start Parent Utilizes Parent Training Courses For Her Child During Stay-at-Home Order

May 19, 2020 | Adults, Early Childhood, Family, Featured, Matrix Head Start, News, Parents, Success Story

  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...

Matrix Head Start Continues to Serve Families At Home While School is Closed

Apr 28, 2020 | Adults, Community, Early Childhood, Family, GivingTuesday, Matrix Head Start, MatrixMission, News, Parents

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 Introduces “Leaders For Readers” For National Reading Month

Mar 1, 2020 | Early Childhood, Family, Matrix Head Start, News, Parents, Volunteer

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...

Matrix Head Start Teacher Receives ‘Teacher of the Week’ Award

Feb 18, 2020 | Adults, Awards, Early Childhood, Employee Spotlight, Featured, Matrix Head Start, News, Parents

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...

Matrix Receives 9,000 Books for National Reading Day

Jan 28, 2020 | Early Childhood, Employee Spotlight, Family, Featured, Matrix Head Start, News, Parents

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....

Matrix Head Start Family Receives New Furnace Before Winter

Dec 2, 2019 | Adults, Early Childhood, Family, Matrix Head Start, News, Parents, Poverty, The Matrix Center

  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,...