Our Work
Six Teams Putting Children First.
The Hope Starts Here framework is composed of six Imperative Teams. Each team has a leading organization that creates and manages initiatives to advance an team’s objectives, helping Hope Starts Here accomplish its 2027 vision.
To ensure current gaps do not widen further, especially as we navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic, we need everyone in Detroit to do their part.
Co-led by Henry Ford Health System and the Detroit Health Department, this work ensures Detroit mothers receive equitable access to care and adequate services through an integrated network, providing sufficiency, health, well-being, safety, and preparedness to thrive.
Led by Detroit Champions for Hope and their community of partners and leaders, this team supports parents and caregivers by providing simple and effective tools to spark learning and support the well-being of a child.
The Early Childhood Investment Corporation and Black Family Development heads out this group, which is focused on greater access to high-quality professionals during a child’s first eight years of life.
This group collaborates with providers to create consistency, inform licensing standards and advocate for the importance of high-quality spaces for children.
The United Way for Southeastern Michigan heads out this team, helping to create a data infrastructure helping families navigate resources and systems more efficiently.
We also have a group working to address Detroit’s disjointed early childhood system funding. This team, headed by the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, leads activities that rethink how we deliver services and redesign the system, making it more affordable.