July 28th, 2019In May, Dow and WE, international development charity and youth empowerment movement, announced the winners of the WE Are Innovators Challenge for the 2018-2019 school year. Twenty-eight student winners and their teachers were awarded the opportunity to go on a culturally immersive ME to WE service-learning trip to Kenya. Among them is Tionna Thompson, the Continue Reading
July 22nd, 2019SAY Play hosted the 1st Annual Lipke Park Reunion on Saturday, July 20. It was an opportunity for members of the Osborn / Pershing neighborhood, old and new, to come together to celebrate the Lipke Recreation Center’s history as a community touchstone. Before it fell into disarray after budget cuts and theft, the 14-acre facility Continue Reading
July 21st, 2019Nearly 100 Detroit youth football players, ages eight to 13, were out on Stafford Field on Saturday, July 20th at the Xenith Prep Kickoff Classic Youth Clinic. Presented in partnership with the Detroit Sports Commission, Xenith, and SAY Play, the youth clinic was a community initiative of the 15th annual Xenith Prep Kickoff Classic taking Continue Reading
July 18th, 2019On Saturday, July 13, our SAY Detroit Warriors took part in the inaugural Detroit Pistons 3-on-3 Tournament at Little Caesars Arena. Check out the photos from their day:
May 16th, 2019Tionna Thompson, a 15-year-old SAY Play member born in Nebraska but raised in Detroit, was asked to meet with Co-Executive Director Dana Davidson in the small staff conference room at the center. Her friends were asked to join her. Waiting for her on the other end of a FaceTime call was Meredith Morris, Global Education Continue Reading
December 3rd, 2018Dr. Kalisha McLendon, DDS, treated our students to a special presentation about dental health. A practicing dentist in Detroit and graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland – Baltimore, Dr. McLendon discussed her path to dentistry from Detroit public schools to a University of Michigan residency. Her presentative include an interactive Continue Reading
October 11th, 2018Position Profile Executive Director of the SAY Detroit Play Center The SAY Detroit Play Center is a premier training center for young people in Detroit to improve their community, starting with themselves. Located on 14 acres at Lipke Park on the northeast side of Detroit, the Play Center is the brainchild of best-selling author Mitch Continue Reading
September 25th, 2018Please join us in congratulation Davion Jackson, 17, who is the recipient of theErnest Lofton Junior Goodfellow of the Year Award, presented by the Detroit Goodfellows at this morning’s 29th Annual Tribute Breakfast. Held at the Cobo Center, the event honored City of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan with the Edward H. McNamara Goodfellow of the Year Award Continue Reading
September 22nd, 2018With a grant from the Detroit Health Department, The Detroit Pistons gymnasium at the SAY Detroit Play Center played host to a father-son basketball tournament on September 15th. Sponsored by We RUN Tings, the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority, the Wayne County Fatherhood Initiative, and Family Assistance for Renaissance Men, Dad-And-Me 3-ON-3 celebrated dads and dad-figures Continue Reading
August 30th, 2018Our 14U boys’ basketball team capped off their season-winning Detroit PAL Summer League playoff championship appearance with a runner up finish on Sunday, but we also scored big this August with two special events hosted at the SAY Play Center. On August 10, Coach Dan Boylan and his brother, Joe Boylan, hosted a free basketball Continue Reading