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Great Start Resources and Links

Great Start Collaboratives
Your area Great Start Collaborative has many links to early childhood information. Click on the link below according to your county.

Alpena/Montmorency/Alcona Great Start Collaborative

Cheboygan/Otsego/Presque Isle Great Start Collaborative

Crawford/Ogemaw/Oscoda/Roscommon (COOR) and Iosco Great Start Collaborative

Eastern UP Great Start Collaborative - Chippewa/Luce/Mackinac Counties

Don't see your county? Click HERE to find the Great Start Collaborative in your area.

Click HERE to locate your Great Start Parent Liaison. Parent Liaisons help coordinate the Great Start Parent Coalitions. To learn more about Parent Coalitions, click HERE.

Great Start CONNECT
Child care providers, to log in to the Great Start Child Care database, access local training, and find more information, click on the Great Start Connect button below.

ECIC Great Start for Kids Website
The ECIC Great Start for Kids website has a host of helpful information relating to early childhood. Click on the logo below.

What's Happening in YOUR County? Click the banner below to find out!

Read the CONNECTions Publication for a Great Start!
Click HERE to read the latest edition!

Click HERE to read the Fall 2011 edition!

Click HERE to read the Spring 2011 edition!

Click HERE to read the Winter 2011 edition.

Click HERE to read the Fall 2010 edition.

Click HERE to read the Summer 2010 edition.

Michigan's Office of Great Start
with the Michigan Department of Education
A new office in Michigan to oversee early learning! Learn more!

Links to Information by Alphabetical Order
Click on the red titles to link you to great information!

Billing - Information on how to bill the state for families using the CDC subsidy program

Biting - Information on biting and how to stop it

Child Abuse - How to report child abuse in Michigan

Communicating with Parents - Communicating with Parents Sensitively

Community Resources - What's going on in YOUR county

Dan Hodgins Newsletter - Brains do not think in themes
                                 -Clean up time is not the most important time of the day
                         _Calendar time is for people who have appointments
                                _Saying "I'm Sorry"
                                -Tis the Season to be Less Egocentric than the Child
                                -Keeping the “Heart” and “Soul” in your program
                                -"Are They Friends or Intruders?" - supporting the development of friendship

Discipline - A video on positive discipline methods

Diversity - Activities, information, teaching kits and more about diversity

Early On - A program that assists children with potential developmental delays

Food Program - Mid Michigan Child Care Food Program

Food Program - Association for Child Development Child and Adult Care Food Program

Forms - Required and optional forms for child care providers in Michigan

Healthy Child Care Resources - Training resources, checklists, and more from the Environmental Protection Agency

Infant and Toddler Care - Information about caring for infants and toddlers

Infant and Toddler Child Care Quality - Michigan standards for quality

Kindergarten Readiness - Know what children need to be prepared for kindergarten

Licensing Rules for Michigan - Access DHS Licensing Rules

Licensing Rule Technical Assistance Guides
             Click HERE for Family and Group Licensing Rules Technical Assistance Manual.

         Click HERE for Child Care Center Licensing Rules Technical Assistance Manual.

         Click HERE for additional DHS Licensing links and resources.

Mandated Reporter - What it means to be a mandated reporter in Michigan

MiAEYC - The Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children

Michigan After School Partnership - a statewide network developing a shared vision and influencing others to believe in the power of after-school programs to help all children and youth succeed.

Nutrition - Nutrition checklist for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers

Physical Development - information and videos about physical development

Physical Development - Activities checklist for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers

Potty Training - Information on potty or toilet training

Preschool/Prekindergarten Program Quality - Michigan standards for quality

Product Safety - Information about recalled products and how to report an unsafe product
Video about reporting unsafe products

Science Activities - Using children's literature to teach science. Great ideas!

SIDS and Safe Sleep - Tomorrow's Child of Michigan

Social and Emotional Development - Information about social emotional development

Special Needs - Working with children with special needs
-Creating Play Environments and Children with Special Needs
-Include Me: Guide to Inclusive Child Care

Training - Great Start CONNECT training calendar to find local training

T.E.A.C.H. - A scholarship program for child care providers and early childhood educators

Resources

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