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Hope Starts Here: Detroit’s Early Childhood Partnership

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By: Detroit's Early Childhood Partnership October 1, 2018
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This slide deck, from BUILD’s 2018 Meeting, Making the Most of It – Birth to Five Preschool Development Grant Meeting, outlines Detroit’s early childhood partnership, Hope Starts Here. The initiative was a community engagement and strategic planning process designed to create a vision and action plan to make Detroit an equitable, world-class city for their youngest residents and their families.

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