Local Partners
The Great Start Collaboratives coordinate systems of community resources and supports for families. They join together with parents, school staff and community leaders to create family opportunities that increase school readiness.
The Upper Peninsula Great Start Collaboratives include:
Marquette/Alger (MARESA)
321 E. Ohio St.
Marquette, MI 49855
Call them at 906-226-5100
Visit their website at https://www.maresa.org/early-on/marquette-alger-great-start-collaborative/
Dickinson/Iron
1074 Pyle Drive
Kingsford, MI 49802
Call them at 906-396-9546
Visit their website at https://www.greatstart4kids.org/
Gogebic/Ontonagon
202 Elm St.
Bergland, MI 49940
Call them at 906-575-3438 extension 103
Visit their website at https://www.goisd.org/great-start/
Menominee
1201 41st Ave
Menominee, MI 49802
Call them at 906-863-5665 extension 1028
Visit their website at www.greatstartmenomineecounty.org
Copper Country
809 Hecla St.
Hancock, MI 49930
Call them at 906-482-9396
Visit their website at www.ccgreatstart.org
Eastern Upper Peninsula (EUP)
315 Armory Place
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
Call them at 906-632-3373 extension 5113
Visit their website at www.eupkids.com/
Delta/Schoolcraft
2525 3rd Ave. South
Escanaba, MI 49829
Call them at 906-786-9300 extension 109
Visit their website at www.great-start.org
Community Resources
The Upper Penninsula Resource Center’s Lending Library is a free educational resource for you and your children! The Lending Library is designed to encourage and enhance the learning experience at home, school, child care and preschool.
Lending Library items include:
- Theme based experience bins
- Story stretcher totes
- CARES bags
- Books
- CD’s
- DVD’s
- Curriculum materials
The U.P. Resource Library’s are:
Calumet Public School Library
Call them at 906-337-0811 extension 1107
Visit their website at www.clk.k12.mi.us/library
Dickinson County Library
Call them at 906-774-1218
Visit their website at www.dcl-lib.org
Gladstone Public Library
Call them at 906-428-4224
Visit their website at www.Gladstoneschools.com/school__public_library
Ironwood Carnegie Library
Call them at 906-932-0203
Visit their website at www.uproc.lib.mi.us/ironwood/
Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library
Call them at 906-486-4381
Visit their website at www.uproc.lib.mi.us/ish
Manistique School & Public Library
Call them at 916-341-4316
Menominee County Library
Call them at 916-753-6923
Visit their website at www.uproc.lib.mi.us/Menominee
Munising School/Public Library
Call them at 916-387-2125
Visit their website at www.uproc.lib.mi.us/mspl
Ontonagon Township library
Call them at 906-884-4411
Visit their website at www.uproc.lib.mi.us/Ontonagon
Peter White Library
Call them at 906-226-4303
Visit their website at www.pwpl.info/
Portage Lake District Public Library
Call them at 906-482-4570
Visit their website at www.uproc.lib.mi.us/newpldl/
Spies Public Library
Call them at 906-863-3911
Visit their website at www.uproc.lib.mi.us/spies
Tahquamenon Area Library
Call them at 906-293-3226
Visit their website at www.librarytechnology.org/libraries/library.pl?id=19775
Superiorland Library Cooperative
Call them at 906-228-7697
Visit their website at www.uproc.lib.mi.us/slc
Wakefield Public Library
Call them at 906-229-5236
Visit their website at www.joomla.uproc.lib.mi.us/wakefield
West Iron District Library
Call them at 906-265-2831
Visit their website at www.westironlib.org
Limited Partnership Libraries:
Pickford Community Library
Call them at 906-647-1288
Keweenaw Family Resource Center
Call them at 906-482-9396
GSC Schoolcraft-Manistique, Emerald School
Call them at 906-341-8194
Delta-Schoolcraft ISD
Call them at 906-786-9300
Les Cheneaux Library
Call them at 906-484-3547
We also have resources available through our Quality Improvement Specialists.