School Readiness Outreach Program

The School Readiness Outreach Program is a school-based program for qualifying at-risk families with children between birth and five years of age in Grand Traverse County. Recognizing that school readiness begins at birth, the School Readiness Outreach Program offers a variety of resources to families cost free, including home visits, social groups, parenting information, early childhood experiences, preschool information, and developmental screenings.

In their first few years, children learn more and at a faster pace than at any other time in life. The School Readiness Outreach Program offers information and skills for making the most of these crucial early learning years by providing timely information on child development and brain research, parent-child activities that encourage language development, intellectual growth, social development, and motor skills, and a direct connection between home and a child's educational future. (watch video)

For more information about the program, please call TCAPS' Early Childhood Hotline at (231) 933-1712.

TCAPS School Readiness Outreach Service Providers:

• Kelly BeVier 
  Serving Cherry Knoll, Eastern,
  Courtade & Old Mission Elementary Schools
  231-360-7572
  bevierke@tcaps.net
   
• Kathy Nester-Pohlman
  Serving Interlochen, Westwoods, 
  Long Lake & Blair Elementary Schools
  231-342-9772
  pohlmanka@tcaps.net
   
• Tracy Truscke
  Serving Central, Silver Lake,
  Traverse Heights & Willow Hill
  Elementary Schools
  231-360-7573
  truschketr@tcaps.net