Training & Development
Through ongoing training and workforce development, we create opportunities for Southwest Detroit residents to develop professional skills, join our cooperatives, or start their own cooperative. Classes are also intended to allow any Southwest Detroit community members - particularly youth - to learn skills, develop relationships and share creative spaces with one another. All trainings have a curriculum informed by a popular education pedagogy, are rooted in the Southwest Detroit context, and use lessons to solve community problems.
Current Offerings:
Cooperative Development
22 weeks
Offered upon request
This course is geared toward groups of at least 5 Southwest Detroit residents interested in developing a worker-owned cooperative. Participants will learn cooperative culture, business planning, financial projecting, marketing, branding and structure development. Each cooperative developed with support from Grace in Action Collectives will be invited to participate as part of the larger network of community-based businesses.
Contact: Idalis@giacollectives.org.
Graphic Design and Social Change
21 Weeks
Offered annually each spring
This class is geared toward high school youth ages 13-18. Young people will learn visual communication and explore creating design-led solutions to neighborhood-identified concerns.
Contact: Sean@graceinactiondetroit.org
Coding and Community Organizing
12 Weeks
Offered annually each fall
This class is geared towards high school youth ages 16-20. In this class, youth will ask and answer the following question: How can we use technology to find innovative solutions to community problems identified by residents? Students will learn HTML, CSS, Javascript, back-end programming, and Node.js. At the end of the class, they can apply to become members of the Radical Productions Youth Collective.
Contact: Sean@graceinactiondetroit.org
Basic
Screen Printing
12 Weeks
February Start
Learn screen printing basics with Stitching Up Detroit. This course is geared towards Southwest Detroit youth, ages 13 - 18.
Contact: StitchingUpDetroit313@gmail.com
Advanced Screen Printing
12 Weeks
May Start
This class geared towards anyone who has completed Basic Screen Printing. Advanced screen printing will teach youth the entire process of printmaking. Each student will learn to design, digitize, prep, and print their own t-shirt. Young people will end the class with 10 t-shirts of their own design to sell or gift to friends.
Contact: StitchingUpDetroit313@gmail.com
Digital Privacy and Security
Offered upon request
Participants will learn how to maintain privacy and protect their information in the digital environment.
Contact: eii@graceinactiondetroit.org