ECIC supports a broad-based advisory committee on the issues of family supports or basic needs.  The goal of the Family Support Committee  is to provide advice that will inform ECIC’s work to:

• Support the local Great Start System infrastructure
• Advance the Great Start System results:  Families of infants and young children are economically stable; and infants and young children live in safe families
• Increase knowledge regarding evidence-based practices
• Development recommendations for innovative early childhood policy
• Provide education to the public to increase public understanding
• Increase public and private investment

The committee is not currently convening.

Committee Objectives:

• Members represent the diversity of Michigan’s population
• Members have a shared understanding of the contributions each makes to the success of the Family Support component of the early childhood system
• Members engage in generative dialogue that informs the respective work of membership
• Members choose to collaborate on projects of shared concern.
• Members plan and host an annual convening
• Members oversee preparation of at least one written report from to educate state-wide.

The committee is focusing on:

Interfacing with the Michigan’s Voices for Action initiative of the Michigan Department of Human Services

Click here for committee membership listing

Staffed By: 

Cherie Ross-Barber, ECIC TA Coordinator
221 N. Pine Street
Lansing, MI 48933
(517) 371-9000 Ext 207
(517) 371-9080 Fax
cbarber@ecic4kids.org