"Michigan Human Services - Youth Issues"

Speaker – Ishmael Ahmed, State Director of Human Services

Location: Arab American National Museum

13624 Michigan Ave.

(West of Schaefer Rd.) Parking available behind bldg.

www.theaanm.org

 

6: OO PM Welcome & Refreshments

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Presentation in Auditorium

 

Invitees include city officials from Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, including mayors, council representatives, judges, police chiefs, school administrators, superintendents, principals, organizational heads and civic leaders.

 

The public is invited to learn about issues

relating to needs of children at risk.

 

An underlying current of the financial crises facing the nation today is the impact it will have on the most vulnerable among us. Without a real support system, or a voice of their own, children are most at risk. In the end, children left to drift in a life of chaos will become wards of the state. Our penal institutions are filled with adults who never had the opportunities as children to be fostered by a caring, structured support system provided by family and society - to become productive citizens. In the end we pay in many ways for that failure.

 

Ishmael Ahmed was a community activist before taking the position of Executive Director of ACCESS. A post he held for many years. In 2008, he was appointed by Governor Granholm to the position of director of the State Department of Human Services. Mr. Ahmed is a strong advocate of programs that provide a safety net for people in need.