10-Year-Old Learns About Life Skills From Home
Mrs. Burns, a mother of six living in Detroit, was extremely disappointed to learn she had contracted COVID-19 for the second time at the start of 2021. She had already recovered from it once after experiencing life-threatening symptoms. This time around, they told...
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...
12-Year-Old Pursues Her Passion with The Detroit Children’s Choir
Shecolby is a mother of four living in Detroit and while she was scrolling through social media during the end of 2020, she came across an ad for Matrix Human Services Youth Assistance Program. The information prompted her to enroll her 12-year-old daughter, Diamond,...
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 Healthy Senior Initiative Delivers Healthy Food to Doorsteps
Last week we kicked off our first of many food distributions to seniors participating in our Healthy Senior Living Initiative - Food Rx Program. This program offers free health screenings in partnership with the HUDA Clinic which will inform a food prescription aimed...
Matrix Human Services Becomes A Certified HUD Local Housing Counseling Agency
James King pictured above at his home purchased through the Detroit Land Bank Matrix Human Services has been assisting clients for years with homebuying education and resources as part of our overall mission to provide a hand-up for those facing poverty and low-income...
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...
Matrix Human Services is Helping Detroiters Amid the Pandemic
New Detroit Resident Receives Critical Health Services During COVID-19 Pandemic
When Kelly was 16 years old, she began a relationship with a man she knew for a long time. Eventually, they were engaged but by the time Kelly found out her partner was HIV positive, it was too late. She felt that he attempted to trap her, but the relationship still...
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...
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