The Problem | Our Partners | How You Can Help
No one ogranization can address these critical youth issues alone. In addition to providing mentoring, The Park West Foundation works closely with other groups to help build a network of support that provides foster youth the best opportunity to succeed.
Our Partners
| Africans In Medicine (AIM), Wayne State University | A.I.M hopes to forge a cohesive it amongst African medical professionals so that we can harness our diverse intellectual and creative energies towards exerting a positive and progressive impact in both the United States and in the continent of Africa We hope to accomplish these goals through community service, medical missions, and educational activities. |
| Big Family of Michigan | Big Family of Michigan (BFM) is an organization helping to make life better for children waiting to be adopted. They work to with adoption organizations, foster parents, social workers and the children to try to help make sure all are working in harmony and the children are receiving the love, care, and items they need and require to become successful adults. BFM's Child Advocate Program provides Adoption Recruiting, Instruction, Services and Esteem for Michigan's adoptable children. They sponsor Birthday Parties, Teddy Bears, Christmas Gifts, One Church One Child, the Birthday Bear Programs, Hero Parties, just to name a few. BFM believes that every child is born special and deserves a chance to become part of a family. |
| CIAO (Creating Independence and Outcomes) | CIAO helps former foster youth in the areas of education and employment, such as earning a credential or degree, developing and realizing career goals, and finding the stability that they need to become independent young adults. |
| Don Bosco Hall | Don Bosco Hall is a private non-profit agency, which provides supportive human services to enhance the quality of life for youth, and their families residing in the Metropolitan Detroit-Wayne County Community. Programs include Residential Treatment, Mental Health Assessment and Counseling, Mentoring, and Supervised Independent Living. |
| Faith Coalition on Foster Care | The Faith Communities Coalition on Foster Care is a branch of the SOCC at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. We seek to enlist faith based community support and work with congregations of all faiths throughout the metropolitan Detroit area. Our goal is to create a wider safety net to help recruit, support and contribute in large and small ways to the well-being of foster children and families. |
| Finney High School, ROTC | Finney High School serves grades 9-12 in the Detroit Public Schools district. ROTC provides scholarships money for tuition and other college expenses while teaching valuable leadership skills, military training, and discipline. |
| Gail Perry Mason | Finance, investment and budgeting. |
| Henry Ford Hospital | |
| Holy Cross Children's Services (HCCS) | HCCS is a Catholic-oriented, nonprofit child care and family preservation agency. The agency conducts residential and community-based programs throughout the State of Michigan. Its purpose is to serve the needs of Michigan families and children without regard to race, creed or economic status. For 60 years, Holy Cross Children’s Services has been helping families begin again. |
| Mercy Education Project (MEP) | MEP is a non-profit organization which serves the needs of girls and women through after-school tutoring, summer enrichment, GED preparation, and life skills support. MEP's mission is to nurture the intellectual and social growth of girls and women in the community of Southwest Detroit. Our programs are designed to raise self-esteem, support self-sufficiency; and foster service and leadership qualities. |
| Michigan Youth Opportunity Initiative (MYOI) | MYOI is a major effort to improve outcomes for foster youth as they age out of care. MYOI is focused on: Education, Employment, Housing, Physical and mental health, Transportation and Social and community engagement. |
| Northeast Guidance Center | The Northeast Guidance Center is committed to innovative, community-based services to children, adults and families and the promotion total wellness with an emphasis on mental health. The NEGC seeks to lead the way in building strong communities where people are mentally, emotionally, and physically healthy and enable them to support their families |
| Pioneers for Peace | The Pioneers for Peace program is an innovative violence prevention and awareness program. The goals of the program are three-fold: Increase awareness about the impact of violence and ways to reduce its incidents among at risk youth; Promote violence prevention, conflict resolution and good decision making skills among at risk youth; and Educate the public on the value and abilities of persons with disabilities. |
| Save Our Children Coalition (SOCC) | SOCC is a coordinating body which encourages collaboration among established and emerging community groups for Michigan’s children in foster care. SOCC seeks to determine strengths in the foster care system, and supports the development of programs that fill gaps and correct problems. SOCC concentrates on: Community Outreach/Coordinating Services; Education; and Foster Care System Refo |