Dozens of representatives from ACCESS, the Arab-American and Chaldean Council and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit met with members of the Michigan House of Representatives and state Senate in Lansing on Thursday, May 15 to push for health care reform in communities across southeast Michigan.
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On Wednesday, May 14, students attending Dearborn and Hamtramck schools had a unique opportunity to explore a wide variety of higher education options at ACCESS’ 10th Annual College Fair. Eleven colleges and universities participated in the event.
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Royal Oak resident and budding entrepreneur Dijana Bucalo has combined two passions—family and fashion—to create a business called Dijana Creative Sewing and Embrodiery.
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Michael Irving has a passion for helping young people, especially low-income and disadvantaged youth in the Detroit metropolitan area. That passion led Irving to pursue business start-up training at the ACCESS Growth Center in Dearborn.
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Dearborn will be at the center of the first-ever comparative study of the factors that may inhibit Arab women in southeast Michigan and in Israel from getting critical breast cancer screening services.
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Nearly half of Michigan’s adults — 44 percent — have minimal literacy skills, no greater than those necessary to perform simple, everyday activities, according to the Michigan League for Human Services. Those numbers are even higher in Detroit, according to Reading Works, an organization of diverse leaders from the business, education, media, civic and faith communities that is dedicated to boosting adult literacy in Metro Detroit.
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ACCESS' 43rd Annual Dinner was held on April 12, 2014 at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center.
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Through ACCESS Growth Center’s micro-loan program, funded by the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, Nazira Niazi was connected with one-on-one business start-up technical assistance, financial management, credit-building education and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes.
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