About Us
Vision
A Great Start for
every child in Wayne County: safe, healthy and ready to succeed
in school and in life.
Mission
The mission of the
Great Start Collaborative-Wayne is to engage the entire
community to assure a coordinated
system of services and resources to assist all Wayne
County families in providing a great start for their children
from birth through age five.
System
Components
Physical Health
Care-Comprehensive
physical health and child development services – including
screening, assessment, intervention, as well as timely and
appropriate referral for specialized developmental, behavioral
and psychosocial assessment and intervention.
Social-Emotional Health Care-Specialized
developmental and mental health services designed to promote the
social-emotional well-being of all young children and address
the needs of children at-risk of developing mental health
problems.
Parenting Education-Supports
for parents in the critical role they play in their child’s
overall development.
Family Support-Supports
for the healthy development of children that address the
stressors impairing the ability of families to nurture the
well-being, safety and overall development of their children.
Early Care & Education-Early
care (child care) and education services that support
children’s early learning, health and social-emotional
well-being.
Basic Needs, Economic Security & Child Safety-Services
and supports that address the basic, daily living needs of
families as well as child and family safety.
Core Values
The early childhood system created
by the Great Start Collaborative-Wayne will be:
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Accessible, User Friendly and
Affordable - Welcoming, easy to find, and simple to
use. Any fees for publicly funded services are based on
family income and circumstances
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Family-Guided - Parents,
guardians and others acting in the parenting role are
actively engaged in leadership in the system development,
implementation, guidance and evaluation.
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Sensitive and Responsive - The
strengths, needs, values and culture of each family
determine an individualized approach.
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Community-Based - Each local
collaborative implements a local system infrastructure of
services, supports and resources to achieve the Great Start
Results.
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Collaborative - Shared
leadership, responsibility, resources and decision making,
each partner is acting to benefit the whole system and its
customers
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Nonpartisan - All elected
officials and policymakers consider the impact of policy and
funding decisions on young children
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High-quality with Measurable Results
- Every public and private early childhood service
provider is accountable performance measures that reward
results, quality and customer service and satisfaction.
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Sound, with a Long-Term Financial
Base - All sectors contribute to consistently available,
diverse and stable financing for essential system
components.
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Publicly and Privately Supported -
Public and private funding sources communicate and work
together to assure the needs of each family are met.
Expected Results
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Infants, young children
and their families are physically healthy.
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Infants, young children
and their families are socially and emotionally healthy.
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Families support and guide
the early learning of their infants and toddlers.
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Families have access to
high quality early care and education.
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Children are ready to
succeed in school and in life.
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Families of infants and
young children are economically stable.
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Infants and young children
live in safe families.
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