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International Programs

Global initiatives that support people at home and abroad through creating connections and building communities.



Great Lakes Consortium

Great Lakes Consortium

Each year, the Great Lakes Consortium for International Training and Development supports international programming for both local communities and communities.

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GLCAP awarded Early Head Start family home childcare grant

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership (GLCAP) has been awarded a $2.5 million Early Head Start grant to provide services in partnership with northwest Ohio family home childcare providers.


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Head Start makes healthy eating a family affair

You are born with about 10,000 taste buds. Your tastes change as you age. As you grow older, you may begin enjoying foods that you once didn’t like. Sweets might not taste as good to you as they did when you were a kid. You might begin eating—and even preferring—salty, spicy and bitter foods. Coffee may taste good. Brussels sprouts too. But a lot of our flavor preferences are also rooted in our early experiences with food. As adults, we gravitate towards the foods we ate when we were children.