Everybody Ready Program

Raising kids is a challenging task for every parent. Kids need and deserve the love, care and support of their parents to grow healthy in a safe environment. Everybody Ready is a home-based, parenting program designed to help parents by providing comprehensive support, education and guidance to keep their kids healthy, safe, happy and ready for school and life.

Program Goals

• Promote healthy development and parent-child relationship
• Enhance children’s learning and development
• Minimize developmental delay
• Identify delays as early as possible
• Increase parent involvement in early education
• Improve the support available to help children succeed later in school and life
• Prevent child abuse and neglect by promoting positive parenting

Program Services

• Provide developmental screenings ASQ -3 (Ages & Stages Questionnaires)
• Parenting education
• Connect parents, as needed, to other community resources and early childhood programs and services
• Play therapy to help children learn how to address and resolve problems
• Provide families with the tools, resources and services to build successful families
• Monthly play-group for all program participants to promote social and emotional development

Target Group/Client Base

• Families with kids 0 to 5 years old
• Families with low parenting skills
• Families with children with developmental delay
• Teen parents
• Families dealing with child abuse and neglect
• Families with a history of low school achievement or dropout

Funding Source

State of Michigan, Department of Education

Contact:

Maha Braish
Email: mbraish@accesscommunity.org
Phone: 313.624.0411