Great Start Wayne's
Home Visitor Alliance Meeting
When: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Where: University of Michigan - Dearborn
Fairlane
Campus
The March meeting will focus on social emotional
assessment and screening.
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Click here to reserve your seat |
Great Start Wayne Parent
Support and Education Action Team Creates Jingle The Great Start Wayne PSEAT has been hard at work this past year. They
held a contest last spring for parents to write a
jingle rallying support behind their "Parenting Works"
campaign. Then children of the parent members
came together in the recording studio. What a success!
Click Here to Hear the Jingle! |
FREE Kindermusik Playgroups for Children Birth
to Five Years Old Offered to Wayne County Residents
Starfish Family Services
invites parents with children from birth through age
five to attend free playgroups at the Family Resource
Center in Inkster.
When: Every Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
9:30 a.m. - 11:00
a.m.
Tuesday & Thursday
4:45 p.m. - 6:15
p.m.
Download the flyer
Visit the Starfish Website |
Granholm budget maintains
funding for early childhood, but with a troubling
exception
Governor Jennifer Granholm’s fiscal year 2011 budget is
a mixed bag of relief and concern for early childhood
advocates.While the budget maintains funding for most
early childhood programs, it eliminates the state’s only
mental health program for children 0-5.The Child Care
Enhancement Program (CCEP) serves high-risk children
with social-emotional and behavioral challenges who are
in danger of being expelled from child care. The FY 2010
budget includes $1.8 million for those infant and
toddler mental health services.
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Maplegrove Children and Family
Services Substance Abuse Prevention Program presents
Free Downriver Summer Camp
When: July 12-16, 2010
Where: St. Cyprian Catholic Church
Riverview, MI
Call (734) 285-4001
for more information.
Download the camp
flyer
CLICK HERE
FOR REGISTRATION |
Ensuring Michigan kids are
ready for school pays big dividends, new study shows
State spending over the past 25 years to
educate Michigan children before they even get to
kindergarten saved taxpayers $1.15 billion last year, an
economic-impact study released today by St. Paul-based
Wilder Research shows. The study is the first of its
kind in Michigan to document the economic benefits of
adequately preparing low-income children over such a
broad array of sectors, including K-12 education,
government spending and tax revenues, public safety and
health, and the economy. Read
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