Michigan’s Children is proud to announce the 2025 Lifting Our Voices Summit will be held in Lansing on May 22nd. Honoring the advocacy legacy of our own Michele Corey, this will be a free event open to anyone in Michigan who cares about child and family issues. We are busy lining up speakers, moderators and panelists to super-charge your advocacy and creating more opportunities to network with other advocates. We’re also working with partners on nominations for our Emerging and Rising Star awards for youth advocates – recognizing a new generation of Michiganders working to keep Michigan kids and families strong. We hope you will join us for this chance. to gather together, re-energize our advocacy, and celebrate amazing youth. Register now to reserve your spot! here
Michigan’s Children is excited to announce that Danielle Atkinson, founder of Mothering Justice, will keynote the 2025 Michele Corey Child Advocacy Summit. We have an impressive lineup of speakers covering vital topics. Please find the agenda outline to the right, and share this with your colleagues. Don’t forget to register using the QR code or by clicking on the photo.
2023 Inaugural Michele Corey Child Advocacy Summit
We’d love for you to take a moment to reflect on the wonderful moments and initiatives that came to life during our very first Michele Corey Advocacy Summit. Your enthusiasm and dedication lit up the event, making it a huge success! The stories and insights shared during our time together sparked great conversations and helped us build some amazing connections. Thank you for being such a vital part of this memorable day!
Check out some fun photos from the 2023 event!
The inspiring Michele Corey
Michele Corey was an advocate for the ages. Outspoken, tough, genuine and empathetic to the plight of Michigan’s most vulnerable, Michele spent her entire professional career building up Michigan’s Children as a top-tier partner in efforts to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable among us. Knowledgeable in program system building and organizational development, she was a sought-after partner in the nonprofit and philanthropy world to help lead efforts to improve the lives of Michigan’s children, youth and families.
Michele dedicated herself to helping youth from foster care, early childhood and school-age education, along with kinship families and parents seeking to advance their families’ economic stability through adult education and career development.
She believed in a dual approach to helping kids. By recognizing parents as their child’s first and best teacher, she addressed helping kids by helping their parents and caregivers with supports and services necessary to help families remain intact and thrive. To that end, Michele was widely respected for lending her heart and expertise to improving the systems, supports and services that promised a better life for all of Michigan’s Children regardless of race, social standing, or circumstances of birth.
