Programs and organizations supporting families in Detroit.
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A better future starts with Help Me Grow. Let us connect you to a local grid of community resources that help children thrive. Track your child’s progress with free developmental screening, navigate through all services available prenatal through age 5, and get support by asking your questions or concerns regarding their behaviours
Detroit Early Care and Education Workforce Supports
Resources for early care and education professionals, including Regional Resource Centers and Networks, Workforce Supports, Credentials & Career Pathways, Community Development, and Business Supports.
Connect4Care Kids is a centralized resource from the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to help families with young children understand child care assistance options and connect with child care providers in Wayne, Macomb, Oakland and Washtenaw counties.
The Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) is Michigan’s free PreK program for eligible four-year-olds. Ranked #1 in the U.S., it’s a safe place where children learn how to get along with others, share, take turns, and make friends.
One of the most significant barriers for people rejoining the workforce is the cost of quality child care. The Michigan Tri-Share program introduced by Governor Whitmer is to change that by bringing businesses, working parents, and educators together to create a brighter future for all.
Leaps and Bounds Family Services is a non-profit agency dedicated to providing quality education training programs and services for early childhood educators.
Get the boost you need with our classes, workshops, and one-on-one guidance. The Main Library’s TLC Center is dedicated to helping Detroiters thrive in the digital age.
Six A Day is a literacy initiative encouraging families and caregivers to engage in six simple activities with young children every day. These small moments of learning help develop language, curiosity, and confidence that support lifelong learning.
SisterFriends Detroit (SFD) is a volunteer effort to support healthier women and their babies until the baby’s first birthday. SisterFriends work to improve birth outcomes and infant mortality rates in Detroit by connecting caring and compassionate volunteer mentors to women who are pregnant or recently had a baby to gain access to services and resources while creating a circle of caring around Detroit Families.
We empower mothers and their support partners (significant others, grandparents, sisters and friends) to help babies thrive beyond first birthdays. Using innovative strategies, Community Health Workers (CHWs) guide new and expecting mothers through a safety net of social, emotional and clinical supports.
Infants born on or after January 1, 2026, and expectant mothers who live the City of Detroit are eligible to apply. Upon verification, moms receive $1,500 during pregnancy and babies receive $500 a month for six months after birth.
WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) is a federally funded nutrition program that provides healthy foods, breastfeeding support, nutrition education, and wellness resources to families.
961-Baby is a resource line that links Detroit residents to services and resources within the Detroit Health Department and the community to keep families healthy and well.
Detroit Champions for HOPE is about families helping families and people helping people. By working together, we can leave a lasting legacy for our children that is better than what we had.
SisterFriends Detroit (SFD) is a volunteer effort to support healthier women and their babies until the baby’s first birthday. SisterFriends work to improve birth outcomes and infant mortality rates in Detroit by connecting caring and compassionate volunteer mentors to women who are pregnant or recently had a baby to gain access to services and resources while creating a circle of caring around Detroit Families.
We empower mothers and their support partners (significant others, grandparents, sisters and friends) to help babies thrive beyond first birthdays. Using innovative strategies, Community Health Workers (CHWs) guide new and expecting mothers through a safety net of social, emotional and clinical supports.
A better future starts with Help Me Grow. Let us connect you to a local grid of community resources that help children thrive. Track your child’s progress with free developmental screening, navigate through all services available prenatal through age 5, and get support by asking your questions or concerns regarding their behaviours
Connect4Care Kids is a centralized resource from the United Way for Southeastern Michigan to help families with young children understand child care assistance options and connect with child care providers in Wayne, Macomb, Oakland and Washtenaw counties.
Detroit Parent Network (DPN) empowers parents to become strong advocates for their children’s education and lifelong success. By building generational leadership, DPN helps break cycles of poverty through informed, engaged families.
Quick facts on newborn health, maternal well-being, and child outcomes across Detroit. Explore how economic conditions shape opportunities for families.
Kindezi is more than babysitting—it is a system of care, development, and social learning. It reflects how communities shape the earliest stages of life.
Mothering Justice builds the collective power of mamas to center the Mama’s Agenda. By centering community-led voices in policy and advocacy, we create systemic change that provides families with resources, equity, and opportunity to flourish.
The Early Childhood Investment Corporation’s Policy Action Center empowers Michiganders to educate lawmakers about the policies and investments families, child care providers, and our economy need to thrive.
The purpose of Michigan’s Early On Coalition is to work collectively to advance greater equity and inclusion for babies and toddlers from birth to age three across the state of Michigan by advocating for improved legislation, and administrative policy and systems changes.
Think Babies Michigan is a statewide collaborative of parents, care providers, community members, experts and more, working together to make Michigan a top state to have and raise a baby.
