Anne-Marie Smith

Starfish Family Services is a private, nonprofit agency headquartered in Inkster and serving all of Southeastern Michigan, with a focus on Western Wayne County. They have 13 programs and 14 service sites throughout Western Wayne County, 270 employees, and a $13 million dollar budget. They are nationally accredited by the Council on Accreditation. Starfish serves more than 9,000 at-risk children and families each year. Starfish believes investing early in the lives of families to keep them intact, prevent problems from escalating, and help strengthen relationships. They believe that every person is valuable and has potential. The families they work with have numerous challenges, but they can all succeed. Helping them break the cycles of poverty and low educational achievement and creating brighter futures for their children is what Starfish has done for 46 years.