What is Great Start?

Great Start is a resource for families with children from infants to age 5. It recognizes that education begins at birth and supports parents in their role as a child's first teacher. Great Start was initiated in 2003 by Governor Jennifer Granholm.

Great Start offers programs and resources that:

  • Encourage positive parent-child interaction in daily activities.
  • Provide information on intellectual, social and physical growth in young children.
  • Promote Kindergarten readiness.
  • Teach parents skills that can help children grow and thrive.
  • Answer questions parents may have about a child's growth and development.

Great Start does this through activities such as:

  • Parenting education classes.
  • Home visits.
  • Public awareness campaigns.
  • Community Playgroups.
  • Serving as resource for parenting information and referral services.
  • Community lending libraries.
  • Web site - www.4c-up.com.

Great Parents / Great Start in Alger and Marquette Counties is a partnership of:

  • AMCAB - Head Start
  • Family Coordinating Councils of Alger & Marquette Counties
  • 4-Cs (Community Coordinated Child Care)
  • Great Lakes Center for Youth Development
  • Marquette-Alger RESA
  • Marquette General Health System's Women & Children's Center
  • MSU Extension
  • Public Health Departments
  • Teaching Family Homes of Upper Peninsula
     
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