Workforce Career Development Center
Description: Provides screening, employability skills training, job referrals and
placement. Also, conducts an annual career/job fair.
Location: Family and Community Development Center
Women, Infants & Children
(WIC)
Description: WIC helps improve or prevent malnutrition in income eligible pregnant women, breastfeeding women, women who recently
had a baby, infants from birth to 12 months and children up to 5 years old who are at health risk due to inadequate nutrition. WIC
provides supplemental food, offers professional nutrition education, promotes breastfeeding through the first year of life, and makes
referrals based on health screening and assessment of needs.
Location: Family and Community Development Center
Child and Adult Care
Food Program (CACFP)
Description: The Child and Adult Care Food Program is part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Child Nutrition
Program. It provides financial assistance and nutrition training to licensed home childcare facilities. In addition to subsidizing
the cost of providing meals, the CACFP helps ensure that daycare homes provide nutritious meals and snacks to the children served.
Location: Family and Community Development Center
Community Relations Assistance Research and Communications
Description: Research:
provides research referral services, and background research for various agency initiatives. Communications: Promotes agency programs
and services to media and general public.
Location: Main Office
Educational
Digital Campus: Trains youth and adults on how to
access the internet. On-site offerings include: the basics of micro-computing, beginning, intermediate and advanced office automation
classes.
College Club and College Resource Library: Involves youth in a leadership development process to help prepare them for college
and offers access to a comprehensive selection of related information and resources. Financial assistance is offered through various
scholarships, grants and financial incentives.
Location: Family and Community Development Center
Office of Community Services
Description:
Provides information and referrals in the areas of housing, social services referral, advocacy, technical assistance, volunteerism
and counseling.
Location: Main Office
Male And Female Responsibility
Description: Provides social development education, group
counseling, social services referrals, and non-crisis telephone counseling to youth and adult males and families in the metropolitan
Detroit Area. Operates the MALELINE: 1.800.832.MALE.
Location: Main Office
2 Smart 2 Start
Description: 2 Smart 2 Start works to educate
the community about the dangers of secondhand smoke through presentations to individuals, community based organizations and churches.
Through presentations, the 2 Smart 2 Start Program staff educates adults on the effects second hand smoke has on children, as well
as adults, and advocates for policies and ordinances that promote smoke free environments.
Location: Family and Community Development
Center
Project P.E.A.C.E. (Proactive, Education, Advocacy, Conciliation & Empowerment)
Description: Project PEACE provides violence
and substance abuse prevention education for youth not necessarily serviced through public schools. Services are provided to at risk
youth, ages 12-19 in the areas of violence prevention, substance abuse prevention, life skills, peer mediation training, positive
decision making skills and anger management. Project PEACE is federally funded through Michigan’s Governor Discretionary Grant
Program and offered free of charge to schools, students, and parents.
Location: Family and Community Development
Center
Tutoring Services
Read: “Capture the Magic”
Description: Free tutoring for students in grades 1-4, offering homework assistance
and tutoring in reading, reading enrichment and computer enrichment.
Location: Family and Community Development Center
Detroit Urban League Guild
Description: Provides support for League programs through fundraising and volunteer efforts.
Location:
Main Office
Blue Monday NetworkYoung Professionals
Description: For individuals between the ages of 21 – 40, the BMN/DULYP’s goal is
to serve as a base of support for the Detroit Urban League and its respective initiatives; to increase community involvement of members
through development and programs; to strengthen leadership and professional development of members through organized directives; and
to promote the DUL and its mission.
