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Engage Showcase
The ENGAGE team hosted a showcase event highlighting impactful community engagement work that students, staff and faculty are doing in partnership with community-based organizations. Short presentations on community projects were featured, including a student’s efforts around criminal justice reform; a student project on a child’s perspective in the foster process; and a project in Detroit linking U-M students with Detroit nonprofits and other social justice-focused projects.
I was born, raised and still reside in Detroit, so seeing it from another angle is life-changing and will shape the work I do in the future.”
— MSW student Stephen Herrod
The Youth Advocacy Project seeks to elevate youth voices in court proceedings to increase permanent outcomes for youth in foster care. When it comes to working with youth I think the best ethical social worker is making sure that the youth know that their voices matter the most and they are the experts of their own lives.”
— MSW student Brittney Barro
I co-founded MiLiberation. We conduct weeklong trainings with formerly incarcerated folks, community organizers and other stakeholders focusing on building power, team building and understanding policies to effect change in the criminal justice system. Social work has been my own therapy. I’ve been incarcerated, and a lot of time we miss the opportunity to talk about our traumas and talk about healing that trauma.”
