Learning from Families Archive

(Sept. 28, 2021) Michigan’s Children hosted a child care event called “Invest in Child Care, Invest in Michigan’s Future” to connect Michigan parents and child care providers with a handful…

(May 24, 2021) – As a growing family dynamic, more and more grandparents, great-grandparents and other relatives are raising families all over again in heartbreak because of challenging social ills –…

Michigan’s Children is working with the Children’s Trust Fund to create opportunities around the state for parents, youth, service providers and other community leaders to share their experiences, barriers, successes,…

Get a feel for the power of our Relative Caregiver Day at the Capitol through this short video of the day. Michigan’s Children, along with the Kinship Resource Center at…

Michigan’s Children’s Sandbox Party’s first two candidate forums of the 2018 campaign season took place from shore to shore on July 25. First, we went to the Zeeland Early Childhood…

To celebrate National Parent Leadership Month, Michigan’s Children joined the Michigan Association of Community and Adult Education (MACAE) to host a FamilySpeak for adult education students. The student ambassadors outlined…

Michigan’s Children, in partnership with the Judson Center in Royal Oak and the Children’s Center in Detroit, hosted a day of legislative tours of the two service centers, where policymakers…

Outcomes for young people in foster care are unacceptable and caregivers in that system often lack basic supports for the children and youth in their care. State investments that better…

Representatives Runestad and Kosowski and Michigan’s Children brought caregivers together with legislators and other key policymaking partners for constructive, solutions-oriented conversations about the child welfare, foster care and adoption system…

Michigan’s Children and the Michigan Association of Community and Adult Education brought together parents and other caregivers of young children, legislators and other key policymaking partners for constructive legislative solutions-oriented…