Ready Children Ready Communities is an integrated set of community-based interventions employed in Macomb and Wayne Counties, MI. The program’s aim is to identify and serve high-risk children from birth to five years to ensure that they are ready for kindergarten. The program does this by:
The English Language Learners Family Literacy Program (ELLP) is a school-centered educational program. The program is designed to end the cycle of poverty and low education by strengthening literacy traits in Hispanic families living in southwest Detroit.
Study Goals:
The study sought to measure the extent that the ELLP increases education-related parent behaviors, improves student school actions, and increases student reading achievement.
Research Questions:
The Guidance Center and its Walter White Community Resource Center designed and implemented a comprehensive community-driven, socially-innovative approach to kindergarten readiness. Their intervention, Families and Schools Together (FAST), is a multi-family learning and support group that focuses on the developmental and behaviorally based needs of preschool-age children as well as the needs of their parents. FAST programs last for 10 weeks of 2 ½ hour meetings each week.
The Starfish Family Services Inkster Family Literacy Movement (IFLM) focuses on improving the language and cognitive development, and communication skills of young children in Inkster, MI through community engagement and campaigns, and a coordinated continuum of family literacy programs, services and events.