The Guidance Center’s Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) is a high quality preschool program for four-year-old children with factors that may place them at risk of low educational obtainment.

What do we offer?

  • Full and part day classes Monday – Thursday
  • Certified teachers who work in partnership with parents
  • Parent/child field trips
  • A safe, nurturing learning environment
  • Two program locations:
    • - Walter White Elementary in River Rouge, MI
    - Roosevelt High School in Wyandotte, MI

What is our goal?

Our primary goal is to provide four-year-old children, who may be at risk of low educational obtainment, with a high quality preschool experience that will prepare them socially, emotionally, cognitively and physically for school and for life.

Who can receive services?

Families with a four-year-old child who reside in the City of River Rouge may enroll in the program housed in Walter White Elementary. Families with a four-year-old child who reside in the cities of Ecorse, Lincoln Park, Wyandotte and Southgate may enroll in the program housed in Roosevelt High School.

Eligibility for enrollment is determined by the following:

  • Age of child verified by birth certificate
  • Residency of the family
  • Annual income
  • Documented factors that place the child at educational risk:
    • - Extremely low and low family income
    - Diagnosed disability
    - Identified developmental delay
    - English is secondary language in home
    - Parent low educational attainment
    - Abuse/neglect of child or parent
    - Environmental risk

For more information contact Patricia Skelly at 313-294-6278 or 734-785-7705 x7878, or at pskelly@guidance-center.org.