Committees

Our executive committee meets quarterly and includes diverse stakeholders (individuals or representing an organization) from Oakland County who contribute to addressing early childhood outcomes. We are striving to understand what services are needed in our communities, what currently  is available and how we can support families in accessing services. This group helps to craft our strategic plan, guides our work through the plan,  and is the decision-making body of the Great Start Collaborative-Oakland.

This group is working on the state guideline that every child is reading proficiently by the end of the third grade. We would like to:

• Provide caregivers the knowledge and resources to increase the quality of language and literacy at home.
• Provide early childhood professionals with developmentally appropriate strategies to increase quality language and literacy instruction.
• Expand and strengthen community partnerships to focus on improving children's language, literacy, and communication skills. 

This group is working to create alignment within early childhood stakeholders around the social and emotional needs of children and families. We strive to find, create, and share resources with our partners around social emotional health.

• Gather data and information about social-emotional needs of families of young children.
• Improve understanding to support the social-emotional wellness of children, families and early childhood professionals.
• Engage professionals and families in finding, creating, and sharing resources around social-emotional health.

This group is working on ensuring that children in Oakland County are developmentally on track and prepared to succeed in school at the time of school entry. We would like to: 

• Build connections between early care and education and Kindergarten key stakeholders.
• Create developmentally appropriate opportunities to support children's success at the time of school entry. 
• Provide parents with information that explains preschool and kindergarten options that support them in making developmentally appropriate choices for their children.