Parenting Leadership

Great Start Result: Families support and guide the early learning of their infants and young children

• Every parent has access to and utilizes resources that assure his/her child is safe, healthy, ready and eager to succeed in school and life
• Every parent has access to information and learning opportunities about child development
• Parent are in leadership roles throughout the community advocating for what their child needs

Parents and primary caregivers are their child’s first and most important teacher

All parents need the support of good community systems to help themselves help their children. Across Michigan, parents of young children lack easy access to information and resources that will help them be their child’s first and most important teacher.

Parenting Leadership in the Great Start System is a continuum of services and supports ranging from parent education for parents in the critical role they play in the healthy development of their infants and other young children, to parents as leaders who advocate for their own children as well as the needs of other young children.

To learn more, visit www.greatstartforkids.org/economicSecurity. Look on the left side of the new window

Join the Great Start Parent Coalition or visit GET INVOLVED to learn more

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