City Year Detroit
Detroit’s diversity, thriving arts and food scenes, and legendary music all make the city unique and vibrant, but Detroit’s greatest assets are its people and sense of community.
Serving in Detroit
While Detroit is widely known for being a vibrant center for academia, business, tech and medicine, some students in Detroit face significant challenges every day. As the largest school district in Michigan, the Detroit School District serves more than 15,000 students across 125 schools.
Your corps experience
City Year is a key partner to the Detroit School District in creating equitable learning opportunities for all students and develop the city’s future leaders. AmeriCorps members support teachers and staff in delivering instruction that serves the development of the whole child and is responsive to the diverse racial, cultural and linguistic needs of Detroit youth.
With more than 76% of students tutored by AmeriCorps members last year improving their test scores, AmeriCorps members are truly making an impact. A close-knit community with ample opportunities to develop meaningful personal and professional relationships, Detroit is an ideal place to serve.
Serving in Detroit schools
- Serve in one of 10 elementary, middle and high schools throughout the Detroit area
- Work with a committed and diverse group of 6–15 City Year AmeriCorps members who share your passion for service and personal growth
Community involvement
Create a positive climate of high expectations and engagement that ripples throughout the greater Detroit community.
Connect with us to learn more or apply today!
Over the years, we years we have built robust relationships with the Detroit School District teachers, families and the community at large. We can’t wait to welcome you.
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This year, 90 City Year AmeriCorps members will support thousands of students in 10 Detroit schools.
Every year we hold events to celebrate our corps, students, and community at large.
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Happy Friday!
Here to announce our next raffle winner for completing their Alumni Survey...Paul Illka!! Paul is an alum of City Year Detroit ‘18 and was a team leader, enjoy you CY SWAG Paul!
The survey is still open for three days (link in bio) so tell your friends because we want to know what you think! Enjoy this video of Kasey, promise he wasn’t reading off of Cue Cards!
Email with questions —> kchockalingam@cityyear.org
#detroit #cityyear #alumnisurvey
Another day another raffle winner! Congratulations to Kim Truong! An alum of CYD ‘19 and winner of our amazing City Year swag bag. You can be a winner too! If you’re an alum of CYD fill out our alumni survey (link in bio) and email Kasey with any questions!
kchockalingam@Cityyear.org
Happy Thursday!
Are you an Alum of City Year Detroit? We hope your time with us helped you grow, now we’re asking you to do the same for us!
In our bio is a link to our alumni survey, 112 amazing individuals have already taken it and we want you to be next! The survey closes 3/16. All this week we are raffling off prizes to those who have taken the survey, our first winner is an alum of City Year Detroit 2008, Stephanie Fradeneck!! Congratulations! She has won an amazing SWAG BAG full of great things from our partners across the city.
Email kchockalingam@cityyear.org with any questions!
Are you between 18-25 and are in the midst of looking for your next professional step? Look into a year of service! The experience of serving as a tutor and mentor for young people that need it most is a way to not only transform your life for the better, but other’s as well. Help yourself grow by helping others grow!
Visit the link in our bio, or email or call us with questions because we want to hear from you!
#detroit #cityyear #makebetterhappen #service #volunteering #americorps #tutoring #mentoring
With the end of February brings the end of Black History Month. Check out our amazing City Year AmeriCorps Members who partnered with their students and team members to create artwork that honors African American Leaders for Black History Month. Above we have included some of the following masterpieces from Brenda Scott Academy, Cody High School, Durfee Elementary-Middle School and Central Highschool. Though February is over we will continue to honor the amazing contributions black leaders make to society each day! #blackhistorymonth #detroit #makebetterhappen
This is Ms. Ebony with three students Jayla, Dezzarae’, and Jayda trying on some City Year red jackets. It’s important for young people to have someone to look up to to see where they can go in life and our City Years take great pride in being role models for students. Maybe one day one of them will be putting on a red jacket to be a leader like Ms. Ebony! “If you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
– Kamala Harris“
#makebetterhappen #cityyear #detroit
