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“She’s definitely growing and hitting all her milestones a little sooner than what I feel she might have if we were just sitting at home all the time with just us.”

“I would say I would use language like ‘a sense of community’ because when she sees [the hub staff] and the instructor for Zumbini, she gets to smiling and she knows those are her folks. She knows she’s about to have a good time.”

“Anytime kids have a fit to come somewhere, that means they get kids really well. That seems to tell [us] how the kids feel about [Brilliant Detroit]. I think they’d be mad on Saturdays and Sundays because they can’t come.”

“A lot of our children benefit, like, for instance, my grandson now is six… and…[when I started coming to] this house and he would come in, lay on the floor, get a book and read. So that was something that he patterned himself after the children he would see here.”

“My youngest child, I’ve seen that now he picks up books and he knows his letters. He doesn’t know how to read perfectly, but he is now able to say the letters. He says, ‘Mom, here is the A, the M.’ He tells me. I tell him, son, now join them like they taught you, like that, join them and yeah he starts to join words little by little.”

“It means a lot for me… Because he get[s] to get out and to meet new people, interact and learn different things [rather] than stay in the house… cooped up and that get[s] him off that phone, get[s] him off that TV too.”

“When I go to yoga, I tell you, in the afternoon, that day in the afternoon and another day I am very relaxed. I mean, I felt good all week because of the stretching we did.”

“I loved the idea behind it… more like a feeling space, especially for kids that are underprivileged or might not have a quiet, calm, clean home to do their [activities] or a safe space to be.”

“When he does the program or he comes home, he is able to actually tell me what he did… they[‘re] supposed to be growing a seed or something. So he came home and put the seed that’s in the paper, in the bag, in the window so the sun can make the seed grow. So he’s really enjoying it”

“That’s what Brilliant Detroit do[es] – it makes you feel like you’re a part of the family, you’re a part of the team. You’re not just, oh, drop your kid off and keep going. No, we want to stay most of the time.”