Education Transitions
The Marygrove Learning Community: a Detroit P-20 Partnership is a cradle-to-career educational campus serving students and families in northwest Detroit and across Detroit. The Marygrove Learning Community:
- Is a first-of-its-kind campus in northwest Detroit, with neighborhood access to the historic landmark once home to Marygrove College.
- Engages scholars and families with their broader community through a social justice-centered curriculum that embraces project and place-based learning strategies to build community and strengthen the neighborhood in which our scholars and their families live.
- Offers a Prenatal through K-12 public learning community that equips scholars for success, while prioritizing access to wellness and educational resources for the whole family.
- Develops a Detroit-based pathway for teachers through the creation of the nation’s first teaching school designed and led by the University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education.
- Is made possible through the collaboration of proven educational leaders including the University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education, Detroit Public Schools Community District, Starfish Family Services, the Marygrove Conservancy, and The Kresge Foundation.
Healthy, Thriving, Stable Families
Through the partnership and leadership of the Live6 Alliance and various community partners, resources and programs serving the whole child and whole family are available at Neighborhood HomeBase and through the online One Degree platform. Families can access information about programs focused on health and basic needs in-person or online through these resources.
In addition, our partners at Brilliant Detroit offers services to children ages 0-8 and their families at their Fitzgerald hub (16919 Prairie) with resources ranging from literacy and health and wellbeing to food and basic needs.
Families can also access home repair assistance through the Live6 Alliance.
Neighborhood Connectivity
Through the Reimagining the Civic Commons initiative, the Live6 Alliance and partners offer programs that improve connections across the neighborhood, celebrating the Livernois-McNichols district as the home of Detroit’s Black middle class and one of the most racially and socioeconomically diverse neighborhoods in Detroit. Residents can take advantage of updated streetscapes and small business events along both Livernois and McNichols to stroll through the neighborhood and engage with one of the densest collection of Black-owned small businesses in the U.S. Residents can also utilize MoGo’s bikeshare and the redesigned bike lanes in the neighborhood to access the new restaurants, bars, coffee shops and park spaces now open in the neighborhood.
Family-Centered Placemaking
The Live6 Alliance, along with partners at the College Core Block Club and neighboring civic associations, leads family-centered public space programs year-round at both Neighborhood HomeBase and Ella Fitzgerald Park to provide safe, nurturing, exciting opportunities for youth and families to connect and learn. These events are open and free to the public, and provide opportunities for families to connect with each other and build relationships across racial, socioeconomic and generational lines. View Live6’s events calendar here.