About Us

About Us

Reaching Children and Helping Families with
Excellence. and Love.

Martha Jean (“The Queen”) Steinberg, a well-known spiritual leader, community activist, radio station owner and on-air personality had a dream for her beloved City. “The Queen” believed that for Detroit to truly be a Renaissance City "Lady Detroit", we must start by “Reaching Children and Helping Families with Excellence and Love”. In 1994 TOFM Head Start began serving the children and families of Midtown rooted strongly in this philosophy, Today, we believe this philosophy is our greatest strength!

Our Mission

To provide quality, efficient and effective services to pre-school age children and their families in a holistic, innovative learning environment.

Our Vision

The vision of TOFM Head Start is to help children and families through excellence and love. We do this by promoting education, self-awareness, self-sufficiency, financial literacy and exposure to local and global opportunities in a compassionate, safe, clean, professional environment that motivates and inspires while preparing them for life.

Behind the scenes

    Our History

    • 2015

      The Office of Head Start (OHS) granted TOFMHS an Early Head Start - Child Care Partnership Funding Opportunity to serve the kids of the city of Detroit. TOFMHS submitted a proposal in one application to provide comprehensive services and high-quality early learning environments for low-income working families with infants and toddlers through partnerships with 7 high quality child care centers in the city of Detroit. The Program integrates Early Head Start comprehensive services and resources into the array of traditional child care and family care settings.

    • 2014

      State of Michigan awarded TOFMHS awarded TOFMHS to be a provider of its Great Start Readiness Program GSRP. The Great Start Readiness Program (GSRP) is Michigan's state-funded preschool program for four-year-old children with factors which may place them at risk of educational failure. The program is administered by the Michigan Department of Education, Office of Great Start. Research on preschool programs and specific research on GSRP indicates that children provided with a high-quality preschool experience show significant positive developmental differences when compared to children from the same backgrounds who did not attend a high-quality preschool program.

    • 08-09

      356 families received Health Education services, 100% of children received hearing and vision screenings, 790 children received preventative dental care, 115 children needing dental treatment received services. Children and families received direct care at Health Fairs, and screening at Centers.

    • 1994

      In 1994 TOFM Head Start began serving the children and families of Midtown rooted strongly in the philosophy of “Reaching Children and Helping Families with Excellence and Love”. Today, we believe this philosophy is our greatest strength!