GROW & LEARN WELL...

The Guidance Center offers a variety of developmental and educational programs designed to help children, adults, and families live happier, healthier lives through growth and learning.

• AmeriCorps - promoting family literacy and volunteerism

• Family Resource Center - seven convenient locations offering lending libraries of books, toys, games, videos, and literacy bags as well as parent/child playgroups and parent interest classes such as infant massage and positive discipline.

• Head Start - a free, quality preschool program for 3-4 year olds in low-income families. The primary goal is to increase school readiness and social competency while assisting families to break the cycle of poverty.

• Let's Talk - provides support and training to early childhood professionals using a curriculum that promotes important early communication and learning strategies in children birth to five years old.  The goal is to encourage early communication and language development while fostering the social and emotional competencies that children need for school readiness.

• Michigan School Readiness Program (MSRP) - a quality preschool program for four-year-old children with educational risk factors that may hinder their performance in school.

• Parents As Teachers (PAT) -  a Parent Educators visits the family in their home to provide information on a child's development and offer assistance to the parent(s) as the child's first and most important teacher(s). Also provided are group activities with other parents to share experiences, developmental screenings, and connections with other services.