1. KEY DATA TRENDS Updated Ionia County Community Conditions and data trends to consider in Planning Great Start Goals

2. Framework for Strategic Planning using ABLe Change

6. Review of Community Data The trends are keyed onto the 4 Goals of Ionia’s current Great Start Collaborative Strategic Plan 1. Support the ICGSC’s role in the community on advocacy and parent involvement 2. Improve Wellness for children, targeting prenatal through age 8 3. Children in Ionia County are prepared to succeed in school 4. Families are able to support and guide the learning of birth to eight children in Ionia Going to dig a little deeper into community data that helps us understand “school ready by kindergarten”

7. Population Demographics

8. Number of 3 & 4 Year Old Children 2014 Orleans 28 North Plains 29 Otisco 116 Lyons 138 Ronald 18 Ionia twp 125 Belding 122 Sebewa 38 Berlin 53 Portland 110 Pinconning Twp 177 Orange 23 Fraser 185 Kawkawlin 180 Odessa 112 Boston 110 Danby 62 Campbell 53 Portland City 146 Easton 64 Keene 109 Ionia City 278

9. Number of Children in Preschool - 2014 Pierson 173 Douglass 135 Pinconning Twp 177 Fraser 185 Kawkawlin 180 Reynolds 375

10. Advocacy & Coordination on Importance of Early Childhood Education

11. Kindergarten Round Up Survey Results 2015

12. Parents’ Reponses on Pre-school access

13. Health Indicators: Percentage of Children (all under 18) without Health Insurance Coverage - 2014

14. Kindergarten Roundup Survey 2015

15. Health Indicators: Prenatal Care & Births

16. Health Indicators: Abuse and Neglect Cases

17. Kindergarten Deferred - 2015

18. School Ready Indicators: Children in Special Education

19. Education Indicators: 4th grade Reading

20. Education Indicator –School Attendance

21. Chronically Absent by Characteristic

22. Family Economics – Median Income

23. Family Economics- Unemployment

24. Family Economics- Parents in Workforce

25. Family Economics- All Parents in Workforce – Mapped for 2014

26. Family Economics: Percentage of People in Poverty

27. Family Economics: Children Under Age 5 in Poverty

28. Family Economics- Percentage of Families with all children under age 5, and in Poverty - Mapped for 2014

29. Basic Needs Supports Used by School District - 2015

30. Family Economics – Percent of Households paying more than 35% of income for rent

31. Family Economics – Percent of Households paying more than 35% of income for rent in 2014

32. Housing- Percent of People who Moved within County in last 12 months - 2014

33. Housing- Percent of those in poverty who moved within County in last 12 months - 2014

34. Pre–K Moved in Last Year by School District - 2015

35. Number of Child Care Slots in 2015 Number of slots by Type of Provider Number of Providers by Type

36. Ionia County Licensed Child Care by Location- 2015

37. Quality of Child Care Indicator: 3 through 5 Star Rated Sites- 2015

38. Economics of Child Care - Access

39. Connections to Community Supports - 2015

40. Connections Data

41. Social-Emotional Needs Identified by Parents

42. Parent Identified Needs by School District

43. Used School Readiness Supports -2015

44. 2013 Goal 1- Support the ICGSC’s role in the community on advocacy and parent involvement A. Maintain engagement and effectiveness of ICGSC Board through sustaining parent involvement and voice B. Increase community support by educating Ionia County communities about Early Childhood Investment benefits C. Create blended funding opportunities in the Early Childhood system in Ionia County to address resource shortfalls D. Maintain a coordinated early childhood advocacy message in Ionia County

45. 2013 Goal 2: Improve Wellness for Children, targeting prenatal through age 8 A. Develop and deliver wellness supports for families with children birth to age 8 B. Improve access to wellness supports for birth to eight families

46. 2013 Goal 3: Children in Ionia County are prepared to succeed in school A. Increase access to affordable, quality preschool B. Build partnerships to promote early education quality through educational opportunities for preschool caregivers

47. 2013 Goal 4: Families are able to support and guide the learning of birth to eight children in Ionia County A. Build parent supports into Ionia’s early childhood system B. Strengthen collaboration between referral sources