To understand how publicly funded PreK for three-year-olds (3YOs) impacts local childcare providers, local Strong Beginnings staff mapped out the ZIP codes where Strong Beginnings children live to monitor the openings and closings of licensed childcare providers. The map tracks whether public PreK is crowding out local childcare providers. Changes in childcare capacity are updated daily from the Michigan Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) database. You can explore each Strong Beginnings’ community by name. Due to the complexity of the map, it is best displayed on a computer.

• Hover over an ISD to see aggregate details about childcare changes specific to that ISD. Click on an ISD to learn more about specific sites. Filter to a specific site in an ISD to learn details childcare details specific to that community.
• To return to the ISD level map, click "Reset Map" at the top of site level map. Use the buttons on the left of the map to zoom in or out. Use the buttons at the bottom of the map to share, download, or expand to full screen. To learn more about this map, visit its References and Methodology page.
• Hover over a site dot to see details about that childcare provider. Providers are classified as a Strong Beginnings site (blue), closed (red), new (green), and continuing (yellow). Continuing means that a provider opened before July 2022 and are still operating and providing care. Closed means that a provider that was open in July 2022 is no longer operating today, while new denotes a provider that opens since July 2022. 
• Hover over each ZIP code to learn more about community differences and similarities, including their geography type and Child Opportunity Index level. 'Very High' and 'High' mean an area has more resources and children have more opportunities, while 'Low' and 'Very Low' indicates a community is under-resourced with less opportunities.