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Great Start for Kids
Attn: Joan Blough
1738 Commonwealth Ave.
Kalamazoo, MI 49006
Phone: 269-345-5968
Fax: 517-484-6549

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Background Information

October-November 2005 - Request for Proposals: Great Start Collaboratives

September 2005 - Recommendations for an early childhood education and care
quality rating system from the Quality Rating Systems (QRS) Workgroup

July 2005 - Draft Performance Standards recommendations to the Early Childhood Investment Corporation

June 2005 - Creating a Child Care Quality Rating System in Michigan: Explanations and Early Reccomendations, prepared by Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children

April 2005 - Great Start System General Information

April 2005 - Great Start System Talking Points

November 2004 - ECCS Presentation to the Children's cabinet and children's action network

October 2004 - Work Group 4 Resources

September 13, 2004 - Work Group Session 3 Resources

May 7, 2004 - Consensus Results for Young Children, Their Families, and Communities

March 22, 2004 - Update on the Children's Cabinet

March 22 , 2004 - Update on the Children's Action Network

February 20, 2004 - Summary Report: Great Results for Young Children Summit

February 4, 2004 - Great Results for Young Children Summit

January 5, 2004 - Great Start Community Conversation: Purpose

January 5, 2004 - Project Great Start Q & A

January 5, 2004 - The Great Start Strategic Action and Planning Team's Early Childhood Core Team Roster

October 24, 2003 - Strategic Action and Planning Project: Products and Timeline

October 19, 2003 - Ready to Succeed initiative well worth the effort (HomeTown Communications Network)

October 13, 2003 - GREAT START: State Project Will Change Youngest Lives for Better (Detroit Free Press)

August/September 2003 - Great Start Community Conversation: Vision

June 19, 2003 - Presentation to the Children's Action Network (Douglas Paterson, Suzanne Miel-Uken, Renee Demars-Johnson)

May 20, 2003—Presentation to the Governor’s Cabinet: Great Start for Michigan’s Children and Families

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