August 2025

Newsletter

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Learning, Healthcare and Housing

The SAY Detroit Summer Impact Report, reflecting on the success of 2024 is hot off the press! Read about the SAY Play high school Class of 2025 and the new SAY Clinic facility. Learn more about the programs and community impact YOU make possible.


Build the Pathways

This summer, SAY Detroit is launching a new way to give: The Builders, a special donor community for those who choose to give regularly. Generous recurring giving provides a steady stream of revenue throughout the year for SAY Detroit and the programs we run at the SAY Detroit Play Center, the SAY Detroit Family Health Clinic, and our many other initiatives.

When you join The Builders by making a recurring gift, you receive healthy living tips from the SAY Clinic, special recognition during Radiothon, and the satisfaction of building something meaningful in our community.


A Time to Help Posts New Opportunities

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Join A Time to Help and volunteer this fall! We have events scheduled for September and October. Join us to spruce up SAY Play in September and package food mixes at Motown Soup in October!

Volunteer for the Detroit Free Press Marathon

October 17-19: The Detroit Free Press Marathon arrives on the streets in Detroit! They are in need of volunteers, and while A Time to Help does not have any official plans to organize as group, you can sign up directly to support this fun activity in our city!


Summer Camp Highlights

The SAY Play Summer Camp concluded on August 8 with Summer Fest, a community celebration that highlighted the academic and leadership achievements of our students. 

The SAY Clinic shared information about resources available to the community.  And Wayne State University medical faculty and student medical organizations offered blood pressure and diabetes screenings.

Summer Fest

Wellness Wednesdays Celebrates Milestones

The monthly women’s support group, Wellness Wednesdays had multiple milestones to celebrate during its August gathering. It was the FIRST Wellness Wednesdays hosted in the new SAY Clinic facility at 1355 Oakman Blvd., it was a longtime attendee, Clara’s 99th birthday, and the subject was dedicated to cancer patients surviving and thriving.

Happy birthday, Clara, and thank you to featured speakers Tiffany Chenault, LMSW and Rachel Wasserman of Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit for leading the inspiring conversation!

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