Check out the Michigan's
Children Facebook Page for new video
taken at the April 6 Youth Voices Changing
Public Policy forum at Lansing Community
College.
The forum featured six youths speaking about
their struggles to graduate high
school and how they were able to earn their
diplomas with the help of the High School
Diploma Completion Initiative, a program of
LCC and the Ingham Intermediate School
District.
These young people shared some very emotional
yet uplifting stories of success. Michigan's
Children thanks them for participating and
for helping, through their stories, to show
policymakers a program that is worth funding
and duplicating in other communities.
Michigan's Children also thanks our partners
in this event: Lansing Community College,
Community Coalition for Youth, Ingham County
Youth Commission, MSU Office of University
Outreach and Engagement, MSU Extension, One
Love Global, Inc., and Peckham. And we
especially thank the C.S. Mott Foundation for
funding this project to build public support
for creating state and local policy and
practices that improve educational
opportunities for young people.
For more about the Youth Voices Changing
Public Policy series or Michigan's Children
work to address Michigan's dropout crisis, click
here.
