The Baldwin Center Inc

Youth services: -after school program - four evenings per week, k8 kids came for a healthy meal, enrichment and recreation. Ou students, interns, and other volunteers provided tutoring, literacy intervention, and assistance with activities. Engineering club, under the leadership of general motors global propulsion systems volunteers, met twice per week focused on the theme 'rocket science'.-summer enrichment day camp - baldwin enrolled local elementary children in a six-week summer program staffed by many people of all ages from churches, colleges, and other organizations, as well as baldwin employees.activities included academic review, arts & crafts, health & wellness, cooking, and communication skills building. Also included were weekly fun days or field trips, including trips to camp fire's camp wathana in holly and splash 'n' blast waterpark at kensington metropark, as well as a visit from accent pontiac bucket band. The kids spent their days developing friendships, making memories, and improving 11% on average their knowledge of health & wellness and communications as measured in pre and postassessments.-stem 2035 initiative - the baldwin center is one of 17 organizations chosen out of 100 applicants to participate in the ralph c. Wilson, jr. Foundation stem 2035 cohort. The grant, which includes technical assistance, will be used over three years to fund startstrategies for thriving through achievement, resource-building, and teamwork for middle and high school participants.

Adult and family services: -innovative framworks training - the baldwin center used 'innovative frameworks' curricula, developed inhouse with funding from the michigan health endowment fund, to train individuals from ten community agencies to track outcomes, improve efforts, and coordinate existing resources for compassionate and effective assistance to clients in transition from dependency to self-sufficiency.-showers - private showers were taken by individuals-clothes closet - clothes closet- people received services of the clothes closet in visits, including referrals from local agencies. In addition to occasional themed family saturday shopping days, clients have free regular access to clothing and household items, all provided through generous donationsincluding a semi-truck load from an area-wide chrysler employees clothing drive. -hats and gloves - soup kitchen clients received sets of hats and gloves.-baby needs sets of diapers, newborn layettes, food, and formula were passed on to clients.-lighten your load - baldwin machines and detergent were used by individuals or families to clean laundry loads.-adult needs - individuals received personal care products-alcoholics anonymous - meetings are on-site three days a week-health visits - area health providers come to administer flu shots and conduct blood pressure screening