Student Advocacy Center of Michigan

The Student Advocacy Center of Michigan works collaboratively with underserved students, and their families, to stay in school, realize their rights to a quality public education, grow and experience success.

Student Advocacy Center was born in 1975, when a small group of community members, concerned about the excessive use of school suspensions and expulsions and the disparate impact on poor children and children of color, came together to assure that the voices of our most vulnerable children and their parents were heard. This group dreamed of a community where every student was heard, cherished, challenged and supported. They went to work helping one student at a time (sometimes right in the founder’s kitchen), while always seeking to shape and transform the very systems that impact us all.

Today we are proud to be the only organization that provides non-legal advocacy to students and their parents across Michigan. We continue to deepen our commitment to equity and justice as we provide resources and support to students, their families and the educational community.