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Great Start Documents
AMA GSC History & Profile
Subcomittees
Operating Guidelines & Acronyms
5 Components of Great Start
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This document that is completed annually outlines the work that the GSC will accomplish during the year.
What is the Work Plan?
100
The "go-to-guys" in AMA for answers on Early Childhood Issues
What is the Alpena Montmorency Alcona Great Start Collaborative?
100
The name of the work group that is working on a system of seamless Preschool-to-Kindergarten transitions for children with behavioral plans in preschool
What is the Social & Emotional Health work group?
100
The Alpena Montmorency Alcona Great Start Collaborative
What is the AMA GSC?
100
The shape in which the 5 Great Start components are organized
What is a star?
200
the GSC's evidence-based plan for the next three years
What is the Strategic Plan?
200
was formed to capture the “authentic parent voice” from parents who access or have accessed the services offered to families and children in the community.
What is the Great Start Parent Coalition?
200
The name of the work group that is planning a community "time bank".
What is the Family Support work group?
200
The Alpena Montmorency Alcona Great Start Parent Coalition.
What is the AMA GSPC?
200
This is the definition of which component? "Families of infants and young children are economically stable. Infants and young children live in safe families."
What is Family Support?
300
a form that explains the "scope" of what is required of the GSC
What is the Scope of Work?
300
A group of Early Childhood professionals that were already well-established and collaborating their work prior to the creation of the AMA GSC.
What is the Early Childhood Interagency Coordinating Council?
300
The work group that teamed up with the P.E.T.(Parenting Education Team)
What is the Parenting Leadership work group?
300
Parents must constitute at least 20% of the total required memberships of the AMA GSC; be reflective of the diversity of the community, and be parenting children aged 12 or younger.
What is the Parent Member requirement?
300
Families have access to high quality early care and education. Children are ready to succeed in school and in life.
What is the Child Care and Early Education work group?
400
a portion of the strategic plan that is continuously updated and that guides the "action" of each work group
What is Action Agenda?
400
the fiscal agent for Office Of Great Start funds
What is the AMA Educational Service District?
400
The group that makes the "executive decisions" for the GSC and helps guide the Director.
What is the Steering Committee?
400
The purpose of the AMA GSC is to plan, establish and maintain a comprehensive system of service coordination. Membership is open to any group or individual, located in Alpena, Montmorency, and Alcona counties who is committed to the vision and mission of the AMA GSC. Everyone is welcome at the AMA GSC meetings.
What is the AMA GSC membership policy?
400
The component area that fits this description: "Families support and guide the early learning of their infants and young children" ?
What is Parenting Leadership?
500
a comprehensive survey of GSC and GSPC members that measures the work of each GSC
What is the MSU Evaluation?
500
The agency that "houses" the AMA GSC and subcontracts the grant from OGS.
What is Child and Family Services Northeast Michigan?
500
The work group that is collaborating with the HCC (Healthy Community Collaborative) to promote "5-2-1-0 Let's Go!"
What is the Pediatric Health work group?
500
OGS, MDE & ECIC
What is the Office of Great Start, Michigan Department of Education and Early Childhood Investment Corporation?
500
Name all five components of the Great Start initiative:
What is: pediatric & family health, social & emotional health, child care and early education, parenting leadership and family support