Parenting Moments E-Newsletter | Calendar/Registration | Community Engagement | Professional Development

Since the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute's founding in 1920, community engagement has been an integral and important part of its mission and activities. This engagement includes programs for expectant parents, parents and grandparents, children and teens, and the professionals dedicated to serving them. MPSI's community outreach and engagement programs have a tremendous reach throughout Detroit and Southeastern Michigan and include:

• The Healthier Urban Families program is the cornerstone of the Institute's outreach and engagement activities, providing training for hundreds of parents/grandparents and thousands of professionals in greater Metro Detroit each year.
• MPSI annual Giant Step Teen Conference brings over 300 teenagers together from diverse backgrounds to discover all the challenges, opportunities, and joys they share in common.
• Baby Court Training: MPSI provides three self-paced on-line training modules for Baby Court. Baby Court is a specialized treatment court in Michigan that is designed to address the needs of children under the age of three years, who are being served by the child welfare system for maltreatment.
• The high quality professional development programs that MPSI offers each year include a variety of options ranging from one-hour lectures to full and multiple day experiential programs offered either in-person or via a virtual platform. MPSI also offers self-paced online training for professionals.
• MPSI faculty and predoctoral students are available to address a variety of training topics based upon their cutting-edge scientific research interest on issues of critical importance to the development, health and well-being of children and families in Detroit and beyond. If you are looking for an expert who can respond to questions please refer to our list below. To schedule a speaker for your event or organization, 

To learn more contact Beverly Weathington, L.M.S.W., Community Engagement Coordinator at ac8787@wayne.edu.