SAVE THE DATE

February 1 & 15 at 4:30 PM: Bay-Arenac Great Start Family Network @ Arenac Community Center, Standish

Learn more: FAMILY NETWORK

February 2, 9, 16 & 23 at 10 AM: MotherBaby Cafe @ Bay City Town Center, Bay City

Learn more: MOTHERBABY CAFE

COMMUNITY RESOURCES 

At Home Learning

Kindergarten Round-Up

NEMSCA Early Head Start

Early Head Start (Pregnancy to Age 3)

Early Head Start serves pregnant women and children birth to three years old and their families. The program provides intensive and comprehensive child development and early education services including health, nutrition, and family support services. Early Head Start seeks to provide the foundations for school readiness by fostering developmental competence during the earliest years of childhood. Services are delivered through a home visitation model with a weekly home visit and monthly socialization opportunities. The program is free to families who meet federal poverty guidelines or other risk factors and reserves ten percent of total enrollments for inclusion of children with disabilities regardless of income.

Head Start (Ages 3 to 5)

Head Start is a no-cost school readiness preschool program for children 3 – 5 years of age whose family incomes are at or below 100% of poverty. Head Start is a comprehensive program that, in addition to education, provides for social services, health/dental, nutrition, mental health, and disability services to participating families. By coordinating these services for each child, Head Start provides skills that bring about a greater degree of social competence and allows the child to deal more effectively with his/her present environment and later responsibilities in school and life.

Great Start Readiness Program (Ages 4 to 5)

The Great Start Readiness Program provides many of the same services as Head Start but eligibility is limited to children who are 4 years of age. Programming is open to families whose incomes are within 250% of poverty. GSRP families who exceed income guidelines may be charged tuition based upon GSRP income requirements and a sliding fee scale.

For more information about Bay & Arenac County Early Head Start call Jessica Eichman at 989-464-0172

Childhood Lead Program

Bay County Health Department

The Bay County Health Department has a listing of resources on their website, along with links to both State and Federal programs.

Learn more about: CHILDHOOD LEAD PROGRAMS

FREE COVID 19 Test

Have you ordered another round of free COVID tests from Project Act this month?

Order online at https://accesscovidtests.org or call 211 for help!

Tests are available for every

household in Michigan on a monthly basis (through Feb 2023). Households will receive one kit containing five tests per order.

Learn more about: FREE COVID TEST

Learn more about MOBILE DENTAL PROGRAM

Michigan Tri-Share

The MI Tri-Share Child Care Program (Tri-Share) is an innovative approach to increasing access to high quality, affordable child care for working families, with the cost of child care shared by an employer, the employee and the State of Michigan. The pilot also seeks to increase the labor market by allowing employers to offer a child care subsidy to help retain and attract talent.

Learn More: MICHIGAN TRI-SHARE

Child Care Workforce Support Stipends

The Bay Area Community Foundation is funding a onboarding stipend for child care providers hired on or after 9/14/21 (scholarship to support the provider's costs to hire new staff)

Learn More: CHILD CARE WORKFORCE SUPPORT STIPENDS

Caring for MI Future

Caring for MI Future is a statewide effort to help child care entrepreneurs open 1,000 new or expanded child care programs by the end of 2024. This initiative, led by the Michigan Departments of Education and Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (MDE & LARA) is focusing on what entrepreneurs need most to open and expand child care businesses—help finding and renovating space, startup funding, help recruiting staff, and support creating a business plan.

Learn More: CARING FOR MI FUTURE

Online Kinship Caregiver Workshops

February 8 at 7 PM - Reducing Challenging Behaviors in Toddlers

Building Early Emotional Skills for Parents and Caregivers Webinar Series

Wednesdays, February 15 to March 8 at 1 PM

Guiding Principles for Highly Successful Parenting - February

Fridays, February 17 to March 17 at 11AM

Learn More & Register: MSU EXTENSION PARENT CLASSES

Visit Great Lakes Bay Parents' KIDS DAILY CALENDAR (Sponsored by the Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan) for a full listing of story times, family/ kid events, and new places to discover in the Great Lakes Bay Region.

STEM Passport

STEM Pipeline

You and your child can explore STEM Passport locations and events in the Great Lakes Bay Region (GLBR) by accessing our STEM calendar of events or our partner websites in the list below.

Arenac & Bay County STEM-Rich Organizations

• Arenac Community Center, Standish
• Bay City State Recreation Area, Bay City
• Bay County Library System
• The Historical Museum of Bay County, Bay City
• Delta College Planetarium
• Delta Kids / Michigan Learning Channel

Start Exploring: STEM PASSPORT

PLAYGROUPS

JANUARY EVENTS

February 1 & 15

February 2, 9, 16 & 23

February 1, 8, 15 & 22

February 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 & 23

February 1, 8, 15 & 22

February 1, 8, 15 & 22

February 2, 9, 16 & 23

February 2, 11, 14, 16

February 3 & 17

February 4

February 4

February 6

February 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 & 21

February 6, 13, 17, 20 & 27

February 7, 14 & 21

February 7

February 10 & 24

February 10

February 16

February 17

February 18 & 19

February 18

February 18

January 19

February 20

February 24

February 24

February 25

February 26

February 28

Visit Great Lakes Bay Parents' KIDS DAILY CALENDAR (Sponsored by the Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan) for a full listing of story times, family/ kid events, and new places to discover in the Great Lakes Bay Region.

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