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 Programs
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 Program
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 Network/ DUL Young Professionals (BMN/DULYP)
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.
