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Food Garden Teaches Kids About the Importance of Healthy Eating

By Jennifer Paffi For the second year in a row, the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit is partnering with the Detroit Leadership Academy to provide our Summer Learning Loss Prevention Program, commonly known as Y Readers. This is also the second year that we have partnered with Wayne State’s FoodCorps to provide science and nutrition lessons…

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Meagan Scaringe

August 6, 2015

Youth Development

New DLA Cheer Team Raises Spirits

A new cheer team made up of students from Detroit Leadership Academy Middle and High schools are making an impression out in the community — and could use some help to be able to achieve their goals.

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Amy Kuras

December 20, 2013

Youth Development

“Lunch Buddies” Forge Bonds

Students from the Y Detroit Leadership Academy enjoyed weekly lunches this school year with their Lunch Buddies, a program through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit that matched young people with adult mentors from Quicken Loans.

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Amy Kuras

June 22, 2013

Social Responsibility

Y Gives Three Families a Christmas

In memory of Sarah Tolbert, a dedicated volunteer at the Detroit Leadership Academy who died earlier this year, her family and the teens from the MY-Y program adopted three families at the Detroit Leadership Academy this Christmas.

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Amy Kuras

December 20, 2012

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Food Garden Teaches Kids About the Importance of Healthy Eating

New DLA Cheer Team Raises Spirits

“Lunch Buddies” Forge Bonds

Y Gives Three Families a Christmas