Unique Nature of our Youth Programs

The Michigan Roundtable has a long history of successful work with diverse sectors, constituencies and communities. Our youth programming continues that tradition. We work throughout the greater metro Detroit region in collaboration with school districts, community organizations, and cultural institutions.

• Community change initiatives empowering youth leaders to work with adults in Southwest Detroit, Plymouth Canton and St. Clair Shores.

• Our network of school diversity clubs plan and implement student lead diversity and inclusion programs in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Genesee and Livingston counties.

• The Roundtable has begun using digital media and online social networking to develop resources to connect youth throughout the region.

• A partnership with the Detroit Institute of Arts has promoted dialogue about diversity and inclusion with diverse groups of adults and youth and produced a dialogue based curriculum used with high school students.

• Religious Diversity Journeys for 7th Graders – promotes understanding, awareness and knowledge of the myriad religions prevalent in metro Detroit and was developed with teachers from Berkley, Bloomfield Hills, Clarkston, Walled Lake, West Bloomfield, and Birmingham.

• Cultural Understanding. Students and Adults for Museum Education is a middle school summer camp program developed with the Arab American National Museum, the Charles Wright Museum of African American History, the Shalom Street Museum, the Henry Ford and Youthville Detroit.

• The Roundtable trains youth leaders from across the city of Detroit to design and deliver diversity workshops through a partnership with Skillman Foundations Good Neighborhoods, Greening of Detroit, United Neighborhoods Initiative and others.