Goal

Establish state and local-level public/private partnerships to (1) mobilize community action to support families with young children and (2) promote health, safety, and education policies and programs that maximize child development.

Helpful Questions

Please address the questions below, plus any others you think are important and repond to them through the email link at the bottom of this page.

Existing Partnerships

• Do we have any public/private partnerships that do work in the areas of early education and care?
• Which priority areas (parent education, caregiver development, or public awareness) do they address? How can these efforts be augmented?
• What collaboration successes do we have? Can these partnerships expand into early education and care?

Partnership Barriers

• What barriers, if any, exist that impede such partnerships? In what areas? By what means can these barriers be overcome?

Dialogue/Support

• In what ways can the RTS Dialogue with Michigan support our community's efforts to move forward?

General

• What can be done in our community to reach this goal?
• What would help our community move forward?