Growth & Opportunity Inc.

We came into existance in 1956 when a group of parents joined together in an effort to provide services to children with developmental disabilities.  Academically oriented services were provided to individuals in Lapeer County from a two room school house  known as the Griswold School Day Care Center.  As time we on, the school incorporated a vocational component into a training cirriculum which paved the way for hte direction in which the program would head.

In October of 1973, the Lapeer Adult Activity Board was incorporated.  Through grants from Vocational Rehabilitation Services along with land and building mortgage, the program moved to North Lapeer Road. In October of 1974 the program's name was changed to Growth & Opportunity Inc.

In September of 1979, Growth & Opportunity, Inc. entered into an agreement with the Lapeer Economic Develoment Corporation to purchase property in the McCormick Industrial Park.  The agency moved the Work Activity Program into its present locatoin while maintaining a Work Adjustment Program at the North Lapeer Road location.  In November, 1983, all services were moved to the present location.  An additional expansion and renovation project added approximately 15,000 square feet to the building.  Today Growth & Opportunity has approximately 40,000 square feet of space.

Growth & Opportunity, Inc. is a private, non-profit corporation managed by a volunteer Board of Trustees comprised of local community members from a variety of backgrounds.